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The gay gainer community grew out of the Girth & Mirth movement in the '70s. By 1988 there were gainer-specific newsletters and in 1992, the first gainer event, called EncourageCon, was held in New Hope, Pennsylvania. In 1996, GainRWeb launched, the first website dedicated to gay men into weight gain. [8]
A similar practice is referred to in a folktale entitled "The Tortoise with a Pretty Daughter", collected in Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria (1910). The folklorist who wrote down the story explained the treatment of the "pretty daughter": "The fatting house is a room where a girl is kept for some weeks before her marriage.
Print this story. From the 16th century to the 19th, scurvy killed around 2 million sailors, more than warfare, shipwrecks and syphilis combined. It was an ugly, smelly death, too, beginning with rattling teeth and ending with a body so rotted out from the inside that its victims could literally be startled to death by a loud noise.
Iskra Lawrence wants you to know you're more than the number on the scale. The British model and body acceptance activist took to Instagram Tuesday to share side-by-side photos of herself in 2015 ...
Kelly Ripa opened up about gaining weight after quitting alcohol in 2017. She expected a "windfall of weight loss," but actually gained 12 pounds after she began eating more sugar.
Chub riding a motorbike. A chub is an overweight or obese gay man who identifies as being part of the chubby culture.Although there is some overlap between chubs and bears, chubs have their own distinct subculture and community. [1]
The stars of the popular reality series "1000-Lb. Sisters" say the origins of their weight gain date back to childhood. Tammy Slaton, 37, and Amy Slaton, 36, told People they attribute their ...
Finally, after a blood infection landed her in the hospital, Bradford gave up on exercise altogether when the necessary bed rest allowed for her weight gain to accelerate. She remained immobile for eight years. She measured at 1,200 pounds (540 kg) in January 1987.