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Busting Stereotypes
Pumping iron, busting stereotypes, growing from ignorance
Posted by: William R. Amlong
March 13, 2008
Pumping iron, busting stereotypes, growing from ignorance
Want to smash a stereotype. Hit it with a dumbbell.
Most of The Amlong Firm's lawyers and staff turned out in West Palm Beach Saturday night to watch Stephen L. Freeman, our 49 year old Case Manager, compete in his first body building contest. Stephen finished fourth in the Men's Open Heavyweight competitions - a category in which he was the smallest contestant by 10 pounds and the oldest by 14 years. Stephen and his husband David are the wedding-picture "poster boys" for the GBLT rights page of TheAmlongFirm.com web page. He is pictured here as he posed at the contest. Stereotype: Gay = puny, limp-wristed sissy. Reality: Not!
At the contest, the 26th Annual Sunshine Classic Bodybuilding Championships , we from The Amlong Firm naturally whooped, hollered, cheered and whistled. Stephen was Our Guy.
Most of the lawyers and staff at The Amlong Firm are no strangers to the gym. The kind of discipline and focus it takes to win a lawsuit goes hand-in-hand with the kind of rigor and dedication it takes to build a good body. Working out and legal researching/strategizing both take time, effort and discipline. [If you do not think that trial work is an athletic experience, try standing on your feet for six hours (for some of us, in high heels) and maintaining perfect posture before a jury.]
But the rest of us are pikers compared to Stephen...
