This weightlifting video from Postwar Britain is packed with studs in singlets & gay sexual imagery
This gym has everything: studs in singlets pumping iron, shirtless hunks working the ropes, a cacophony of grunting and groaning.
And no, this is not an advertisement for the local bathhouse–though the sauna is free on Sundays.Those are the defining scenes and sounds of the newsreel, “You Too Can Lift Weights,” which was released to British audiences in 1965.
The short film only contains shots of ripped bodybuilders working out next to each other in BDSM dungeon-like rooms, or doing their best power clean on stage at competition.In other words, it’s a hidden gay gem from Postwar Britain.
Even better, there is also an upbeat and affable-sounding narrator, whose lines are filled with delicious innuendo.Here is how he describes weightlifting at the top of the reel: “The sport at which even strong men can turn pale if they ever do it flourishes all over the continent, where international stars show what mighty muscle can achieve.”Strong men turning pale?International stars showing what mighty muscle can achieve?Yeah, their achievement is they turn us on.
