Is wearing a jockstrap considered 'gay?

[swedish fish88]

For some reason a lot of guys, even ones who really believe in the importance of wearing a jock are self conscious about being seen in one.
There are several guys on my team who always wear a jock for practice and even for our home matches, but at a tournament were we are changing in a locker room with multiple teams they either don't wear their jocks or hide in a stall to change into them, and you would never catch them showering in just a jock. For several of us a jocked shower is the only washing the jocks ever get.
As for me the first thing I do when I get to the locker room is take off my street clothes and put on my jock, but I don't put on my workout clothes or singlet til it is last minute time to get ready. I have done this all the way back since football in my teen days. There is just something comforting about having your balls held nicely in a jock while your chilin before a game or match.
But a lot of our guys who are very comfortable showering with others or hanging out in the lockerroom in their underwear, don't linger in just a jock more that they have to.

I'm in the military, I just feel odd being a 25 year old guy among my peers and the only one wearing one.

 

[JohnDoeXXXm]

I've said it before and I'll say it again- I think if we see a scene in a movie where a major Hollywood star is seen wearing a jock it will end all the debate on whether they are cool. The sale of "wife beater" styled shirts shot way up after James Dean wore them in "Rebel Without a Cause" and white boxer briefs became more popular after Tom Cruise wore them in "Risky Business." Just because compression shorts exist, that doesn't mean that jocks have stopped production, sales or aren't being worn. It's just a fashion cycle that has to swing back due to a new generation of gym guys, or kick-started by something in pop culture.

 

[jockmaestro]

I've said it before and I'll say it again- I think if we see a scene in a movie where a major Hollywood star is seen wearing a jock it will end all the debate on whether they are cool. The sale of "wife beater" styled shirts shot way up after James Dean wore them in "Rebel Without a Cause" and white boxer briefs became more popular after Tom Cruise wore them in "Risky Business." Just because compression shorts exist, that doesn't mean that jocks have stopped production, sales or aren't being worn. It's just a fashion cycle that has to swing back due to a new generation of gym guys, or kick-started by something in pop culture.

Ah, no. Tom Cruise definitely did NOT wear boxer briefs."Risky Business" came out when guys, at least in my experience, mostly wore white BRIEFS. Boxer briefs hadn't even been invented, as far as I know, in 1980-81.
Like many guys, that scene where he dances in his tighty whities really got me interested, esp because, I suspect like many dudes, I myself had danced around my house in my briefs as a teenager when the parents weren't home!
Kinda funny, kinda hot.
However, I agree, and have stated many times that if some famous actor or athlete would be persuaded to advertise wearing a jockstrap, they'd come back into vogue in a hurry. Regular, white, athletic supporters, not "fashion jocks," which are too "precious" for real men!

 

[cliftoncock]

Would it matter if the famous actor/athlete was (or was rumoured to be) gay?