Is wearing Lycra a bit gay...?

I thought lycra gear was pretty much unanimously accepted as rather useful in most sports these days. Foot ball & rugby players often seem to have shit like this on:

In all seriousness i get this when I cycle to rugby training during winter. In bibs+a dozen or so other lycra layers. The crap use of the word gay aside. It weirds me out that people think sitting on their arse in a 4x4 for 10mins, is somehow more masculine than cycling along harsh winter roads.