Steph Rosales

🏳️‍🌈 DENVER, ARE YOU READY?! 🏳️‍⚧️💪🏼

Buns & Guns is officially BACK and we’re bringing the energy this Pride Month! 🔥

Join us on June 27th at 12:30 PM for a one-of-a-kind Live DJ + Workout Experience designed to bring together Denver’s LGBTQ+ community and allies through fitness, movement, and connection.

Whether you’re brand new to fitness or a seasoned athlete, this event is for YOU. Our goal is simple: create a fun, welcoming space where you can celebrate Pride, meet new people, move your body, and connect with Denver’s fit community

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🎶 Live music by
💪🏼 Workout by // .formfitness
💥 In collaboration with & by
🚗 Plenty of parking

🎟️ Tickets are available now through the link in our bio. Secure yours today!

We can’t wait to hang with you, Denver! 🌈🏳️‍⚧️

What an incredible evening with 🤍🏳️‍🌈

We had the opportunity to attend the private unveiling of the “Welcome to Seattle. This is How We Pride” storytelling campaign ahead of the FIFA World Cup! A campaign centered around inclusion, visibility, community, and the many ways Seattle shows up with Pride.

Inspired by the campaign, Catalina and I created our own video to reflect what Pride means to us and why representation matters so deeply.

We’re so proud to live in a city that continues to make space for visible LGBTQ+ representation and welcomes people from all over the world we prepare for the 🌎

Thank you again for having us and for creating something that celebrates community in such a meaningful way.

CALL OF ACTION‼️🚨 (keep reading)

That comment was made on a post about trans love. Nothing even related to fitness. I responded after seeing a coach with 13k following openly exchange transphobic rhetoric. And unfortunately… this mindset is way too common in the fitness industry.

Fitness IS gender affirming. Period.

What’s actually unsafe are coaches, trainers, and fitness spaces that make people feel unwelcome in their own bodies. What’s unsafe is creating environments where q***r and trans people have to question if they belong before even stepping through the door.

This post isn’t about one man’s comment. It’s about something much bigger.

It got me thinking about how many times I’ve walked into gyms or studios and immediately felt uncomfortable. Like I had to shrink myself. Like I wasn’t in the “right” space. And I know so many others feel that too right now.

So I want to turn this into something useful. 🚨⬇️
DROP your favorite q***r owned gyms (allys too), inclusive fitness spaces, pilates studios, yoga studios, run clubs, hot mat classes, recovery spaces. ANYWHERE people can move their bodies and feel safe, respected, and seen. Nationwide. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Comment the city + the space so people can come back to this post and find community wherever they are. 🤍

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Lmaooooo the amount of times even I (as a MASC) have heard this in my life.🤣

People are so weird bro.

Hahaha what’s the weirdest or most out of pocket thing someone’s told you?

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It’s kind of wild how even now as an almost 33 year old person. I heavily question myself and what I do. BUT Only because of my upbringing.. hear me out..🙃😅

I was raised in a really strict household with a type A mexican father and mom who followed suite. We went to church every Sunday. Sometimes multiple times a week for Holidays. We even explored traditional latin mass when I was in my teens. I attended Catholic private schools until I was 18. And was consistently around ideologies centered around (be straight, go to college, be successful, obey, don’t sin and be an obedient daughter). None of that to say is wrong. Sure a lot of who I am now is centered around my upbringing.

But the common theme that was always around me.. was “judgement”.

I think engrained in my brain is the idea of “damn Im going to be judged so hard for this” or “I wonder what ____ will think about this”. It’s so weird because I know exactly what I want. I know who I am. I love who I am.. but sometimes I struggle with standing in my decisions without past voices or judgment creeping in. It’s interesting what your upbringing will do even if you aren’t currently immersed in the political, religious or cultural dynamics.

Anyway. Blackout tattoos are one of the most intense things you can do. I mean “i think” in the world of tattooing (from a societal perspective). But here we are haha🖤🖤

I thought about this for a while. Had a cover up of a tattoo I needed gone & didn’t really like the cover up. So made the decision. Full send baby.

I guess im sharing a more candid take for now until I make a professional reel on the story of how I got here.

And yes… it was painful. Not as much as the healing though.

This past year, I died in so many ways.
But I know it was necessary for what’s to come!⛓️‍💥