JOURNAL
member september🫶
Amidst all the chaotic shifts, we are happy to harvest a few fab Member Features, local queer Latine/ Latinx businesses, and community resources. Fall in here… 🍂
SELF-CARE. COMMUNITY CARE.
The horror of ongoing genocide rages on in Gaza, ICE raids continue to spread across the country, Trans health care is disappearing everywhere and yet we are... exercising? How staying connected and grounded with ourselves can actually help us show up for each other.
How to View HOMEBODY Video On Demand
HOMEBODY VOD includes access to our full video on demand library. Here is a quick tutorial on how to watch!
BASH BACK wrestling IS A SMASH!
BASH BACK Wrestling offers a campy catharsis for Queers in LA. Peep the playback here.
radical allyship
Allyship has always been a core principle of our community. This month’s journal asks us to dive a little deeper into the notion of Brave Space and practicing Radical Allyship in our space and beyond.
RESIST: AN INTERVIEW WITH ARTIST MARIA PIÑERES
Camo crush! We sat down with artist and RESIST mural creator Maria Piñeres for a recap of the radical art she created for our space.
A reflection on the incredibly timely work of the great writer Octavia Butler.
How can we heed Butler’s advice and become “opportunistic” at a time like this, when basic survival often feels like the only possible goal? What could it mean to “adapt” at this time, without losing our core values and beliefs?
RESISTANCE & RESILIENCE
We will be open and ready to create space for building the kind of resistance training we have always been most interested in: the strength to rise up and refuse to allow fascism and dictatorship to eclipse our lives. Read more on the importance of Physical Fitness as Resistance, Divesting Strategies, and creating offline Community Connections.
A bittersweet message of resilience.
A bittersweet message of resilience to help ease us through yet another ‘unprecedented’ time.
WHY YOUR MEMBERSHIP MATTERS.
EVERYBODY Gym continues its commitment to community by offering sponsored memberships to those in need within the LGBTQIA+ community, especially those affected by ongoing anti-Trans legislation. Your membership helps us sustain our Sponsorship Program, which offers both in person and online membership to folks who may not have safe or local access to spaces like ours.
TRANS AWARENESS MONTH
Today is Trans Day of Remembrance. On these days where we remember and honor those who have come before us, we pause to acknowledge how far their lives have taken ours, especially at a time when their very existence was discouraged and denied. We honor their legacy by recognizing all the services and access and language and visibility that we enjoy today as beautiful gifts they have given us.
MONSTER BASH wRESTLING RECAP!
Thank you for making MONSTER BASH a SMASH!! Happy Halloween🎃and thank you to everyone who came out to our first ever LIVE Wrestling Match featuring EVERYBODY Instructors Candy Pain, American Oni and students from our Wrestling 101 class. Did you miss it?😱 Don’t worry, here’s a little spooky szn recap!
monster bash wrestling match!
Professional wrestlers Candy Pain and American Oni battle it out alongside some of LA’s finest in a NO HOLDS BARRED stiff (and campy!) competition for Wrestling Champ of LA! A benefit for Border Butterflies Project, assisting LGBTQ U.S. Asylum Seekers.
homebodies & heroines
This month we are welcoming Fall Feels™ and celebrating the vibrant roots of some of our Latine / Latinx members and crew! Dive in deeper for spotlights on Mexican Women's Curling Team member Veronica Huerta, Red Carpet Reporter turned Trainer Marcela Isaza, Tamarindo Podcast producer Brenda Gonzalez, and Latinx Fire Sign Stoneware Founder Dee Clement!
aug blog: CREW & MEMBER LOVE CLUB
We know it’s still Summer, but so much has been FALLing into our laps, we wanted to share! Here is a little late summer roundup of inspiring stories from our staff and members…
welcome new members!
Welcome new members! Just a reminder of who we are, some notes on our space and why we’re all here! Read more on EVERYBODY Gym’s Mission, Social Contract, EVERYBUDDIES Board, Brave Space, Pronouns, Gym Etiquette and more!
QUEER ALL YEAR
As a queer owned, operated, patroned & beloved business, we celebrate pride all year long, but we also recognize the sacred month when we pause to be together and celebrate as a community. Pride, indeed, is a protest. It's a protest of joy, a protest of hope, a protest of peace, a protest of possibility, a protest of passion, a protest of playfulness, a protest of undoing what's been done, a protest of becoming what you have always been or what you have never dared to be before.
movement & mental health
Happy May and Mental Health Awareness Month from EVERYBODY Gym! This month we’re touching on the connection between movement and mental health. We also reveal the meaning behind our new inside mural, a new mental health-focused film from one of our staff members, collective support for Gaza, and a few ways for folks to stay connected through our upcoming wellness, community and outdoor programming.
INDEX
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September 2025
- Sep 25, 2025 member september🫶
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August 2025
- Aug 16, 2025 SELF-CARE. COMMUNITY CARE.
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July 2025
- Jul 23, 2025 How to View HOMEBODY Video On Demand
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May 2025
- May 18, 2025 BASH BACK wrestling IS A SMASH!
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April 2025
- Apr 18, 2025 radical allyship
- Apr 6, 2025 RESIST: AN INTERVIEW WITH ARTIST MARIA PIÑERES
- March 2025
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February 2025
- Feb 6, 2025 RESISTANCE & RESILIENCE
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January 2025
- Jan 11, 2025 A bittersweet message of resilience.
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December 2024
- Dec 19, 2024 WHY YOUR MEMBERSHIP MATTERS.
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November 2024
- Nov 20, 2024 TRANS AWARENESS MONTH
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October 2024
- Oct 30, 2024 MONSTER BASH wRESTLING RECAP!
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September 2024
- Sep 26, 2024 monster bash wrestling match!
- Sep 14, 2024 homebodies & heroines
- Sep 2, 2024 aug blog: CREW & MEMBER LOVE CLUB
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July 2024
- Jul 19, 2024 welcome new members!
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June 2024
- Jun 14, 2024 QUEER ALL YEAR
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May 2024
- May 1, 2024 movement & mental health