“Homophobic” bodybuilder claims Facebook was hacked
Jerome Nayanah (Pic: R.S.Images)
The Durban fitness trainer who last week posted a shocking anti-gay rant on social media has claimed that he wasn’t the one who wrote the vile hate speech.
In a brief message to Mambaonline before taking his profile off Facebook following a backlash from the LGBT community, Jerome Michael Nayanah said simply that his profile “was hacked.”
He didn’t explain further nor did he actually distance himself from the vicious homophobic sentiments included in the comments.
Mambaonline has been told by sources that, contrary to Nayanah’s claim on his Facebook page, he is not the owner of the Ultimate Fitness Durban, Westville gym or fitness company, but is simply a trainer there.
We, however, have not been able to track down contact details for the company and have not received a direct response to our queries via Facebook.
In a post on the Ultimate Fitness page on Monday, the unidentified owner of the business complained that he has become the victim of “an attack by the gay community on my business and its social networking recently due to comments made by one of my Personal Trainers on his personal FB page.”
The owner argued that there are “always 2 sides to every altercation” and appeared to justify Nayanah’s posts by writing that, “The Bottom Line Is: Jerome has been targeted for months by a few bad apples in the gay community and the built up frustration led to an outburst on social networking.
“Some of the statements made were harsh but [were] due to 1st hand experience of the persistence of certain gay men on well sculpted straight men.”
The owner added: “As for people being labelled homophobic, I don’t see how straight men who are frustrated by gay men persistantly pursuing them are quickly labelled homophobic…”
The owner’s statements suggest that Nayanah’s comments were indeed his own and that his account was not hacked.
When Mambaonline again requested contact details from the owner on Facebook he replied: “Unless your talk is about business there is no desire to converse with you or Mambaonline. An individual’s view point should be argued with the individual directly and not everyone else in his life. Stop seeking attention and support here.”
Last week’s posts on Nayanah’s profile stated that, as a result of being sexually harassed by certain individuals, he believes that gay men are spreading HIV, are not normal, are “promiscuous”, “disgusting” and are “sexually sick perverts.” He added that they “need Jesus.”
A number of claims about Nayanah’s personal life have surfaced on social media in the last few days. While Mambaonline has no reason not to trust these sources, and while they suggest a great deal of hypocrisy on Nayanah’s part, we have chosen not to report these in detail.
Between me and my friends we had over 250+ likes and 40 odd comments for sharing this previous post.
Think everyone in Durban knows about it now. Homophobic comments are note welcome in Durban!
EZ
Indeed, unless you clearly align or distance yourself from claims that scream prejudice, then you were not hacked but expressed your own opinion and just did not have the balls to stand by tall and firm by them. Durban has no place for guys like him, body builder, handsome or not.
And if he had issues about one or two gay guys making a move at him – well hello, lots of us gay and lesbians have people throw themselves over our gorgeous selves but you don’t see us lambasting the heterosexual community over social media.
he is only being ‘persued’ if he is leading someone on… seriously. we skinner as much as women, and if someone is straight we talk about it, and then leave him. seriously, i think he has some issue he should rather work on himself, in a room somewhere he lives in. when he has found himself, he can come out in the public again. Might i also just add, i know very few, actually none, straight men who would pose as he did in his photographs.
Just saying
He is exhibiting his almost naked body to everybody which clearly has strong sexual motivation and intention. The pervert is the one showing the body parts this way.
I AGREE WITH YOU.MAYBE THE DUDE MASTER IS GAY AND IS TRYING TO COME OUT BUT MAYBE HE IS ASHAMED OF WHAT HIS FAMILY MIGHT DO
THE GYM OWNER MAYBE HE IS GAY AND WANTED TO COME OUT OF THE CLOSET.SO HE CLAIMED THAT SOME HACKED HIS FACEBOOK,MAYBE HE HACKED TO HIS OWN FACEBOOK
The most contradictory thing about bodybuilding, at least the way in which it is being lead today is that bodybuilding finds its roots in homosexual and bisexual men. In fact, history shows that physicality is strongly connected with gay and bisexual men since antiquity. They always had greater passion for sports and, of course, they naturally appreaciate the male body the way heterosexual men don’t. As recent evidence, Eugen Sandow, the father of modern bodybuilding was bisexual and even though it had to be in a secret way he had a strong gay fanbase to whoch he would provide with photography very homoerotic. He was and enjoyed being a sex symbol for both men and women.
For some reason, heterosexual men appropriated bodybuilding and tried to erase all evidence of its homosexual roots by trying to portray it as the heterosexual as possible. However, they haven’t been succeful in erasing the homoerotic nature of bodybuilding.
Bodybuilding is gay culture, it is gay heritage and you are too fool if you want to get involved in it and keep a homophibc attitude. You are entering gay territory. Please homophobic bodybuilders, learn who really created and maintain bodybuilding active; it’s not heteosexuals.