Eric Blevs is a llege divg ach who is openly gay, married and now a two-time world champn.
Contents:
- GAY DIVER TOM DALEY WS FIRST GOLD MEDAL, VOWS TO 'CARRY ON'
- TOM DALEY IS DAMN PROUD TO BE AN OPENLY GAY OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST
- DIVER TOM DALEY WS GOLD, SAYS HE’S PROUD TO BE AN OPENLY GAY CHAMPN
- DIVER TOM DALEY WS GOLD: 'I AM A GAY MAN AND ALSO AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN'
- 'I FEEL VERY EMPOWERED': DIVER TOM DALEY DISCS BEG OPENLY GAY AFTER WNG GOLD
- CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: OUT GAY DIVER MATTHEW MCHAM WS OLYMPIC GOLD
- TOM DALEY ‘CREDIBLY PROUD’ TO BE A GAY MAN AND OLYMPIC CHAMPN AFTER WNG GOLD
- GAY DIVER ERIC BLEVS WS TWO GOLD MEDALS AT WORLD MASTERS CHAMPNSHIPS
- NEW ZEALAND’S FIRST OLYMPIC DIVER 37 YEARS IS OUT AND PROUDLY GAY
GAY DIVER TOM DALEY WS FIRST GOLD MEDAL, VOWS TO 'CARRY ON'
"I feel credibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn," the 27-year-old diver om Great Bra told his fans. Daley's gold was the first of his Olympic reer. * gay diver who won gold *
"I feel credibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn, " he add. Daley publicly announced he was gay 2013 followg his bronze medal London, sayg he always felt he was "alone and different and didn't f.
TOM DALEY IS DAMN PROUD TO BE AN OPENLY GAY OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST
Olympic divg legend Greg Louganis [he/him], 61, won four gold medals across back-to-back Olympic Gam, 1984 and 1988. He me out publicly as gay at the Gay Gam 1994. * gay diver who won gold *
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DIVER TOM DALEY WS GOLD, SAYS HE’S PROUD TO BE AN OPENLY GAY CHAMPN
I me out at the Gay Gam 1994, welg the athlet and sayg, 'It's great to be out and proud. My thought before I me out to my mom was, 'Oh my God, if my parents knew that I was gay, then the earth is gog to open up and swallow me whole. Beg a gay man wh HIV, at that time there was still a lot of stigma surroundg HIV.
A lot of the attu the untry and the world was, 'It's killg the right people -- gay men, IV dg ers and prostut. As the stereotype go, gays may not be able to drive. But they n certaly thank openly gay Brish diver Tom Daley, 27, who won Olympic gold on Monday after a 13-year pursu.
Followg his victory, Daley spoke at a prs nference about beg an openly gay Olympian. “I feel credibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn, ” Daley Lance Black, Daley’s hband and the Osr-wng screenwrer of Milk, praised his hband’s victory on Twter.
DIVER TOM DALEY WS GOLD: 'I AM A GAY MAN AND ALSO AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN'
Star Brish diver Tom Daley secured his first gold medal Monday and said not only is he proud to be an Olympic champn, but also an openly gay man.
“I feel credibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn, ” Tom Daley, 27, said to news meras streamg around the world after clchg the gold medal the synchronized 10m platform alongsi his divg partner Matty Lee. He said Monday beg an openly gay athlete has never been easy — but his victory prov anythg is possible.
The Olympic Gam, which has long been a venue for cultural exchange and exposure, was a symbolic stage for Daley to talk about life as an openly gay man, his marriage to film producer Dt Lance Black and their 3-year-old son Robbie. Stg bi him were athlet om Cha and Rsia, which placed send and third the petn, and ont of him were news meras om those lol — streamg his msag back to both untri where gay marriage is illegal. Bra’s Tom Daley got his long-awaed gold medal divg on Monday at the Tokyo Olympics and livered an spirg msage to his gay fans.
'I FEEL VERY EMPOWERED': DIVER TOM DALEY DISCS BEG OPENLY GAY AFTER WNG GOLD
“I hope that any young LGBT person out there n see that no matter how alone you feel right now, you are not alone and that you n achieve anythg and there is a whole lot of your chosen fay out here ready to support you, ” said Daley, who paired wh Matty Lee to pture the men’s synchronized 10-meter, who won bronze the dividual 10-meter platform London 2012 and a bronze the synchronized platform R 2016, clared:“I feel credibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn. Tom Daley and his divg partner, Matty Lee, brought home a gold medal for Team Great Bra Monday on the synchronized 10-meter platform dive, and the victory was pecially meangful for Daley his send Olympics as an openly gay me out a YouTube vio 2013 shortly after he began datg his now-hband, Dt Lance Black.
"I feel credibly proud to say that I’m a gay man and also an Olympic champn, " Daley said via the Olympic News Service after wng gold. Today, we revis Augt 23, 2008, the day Beijg, Cha, when an out gay man won a gold medal at the Olympic Summer Gam. What Mcham’s w means to gays everywhere.
CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: OUT GAY DIVER MATTHEW MCHAM WS OLYMPIC GOLD
An openly gay male athlete won an Olympic gold medal.
By wng the gold medal the men’s 10-meter platform divg, Mcham stck a goln blow for gay people everywhere who’ve been told they’re flawed or not good enough, pecially the athletic arena. For all the gay men who have been lled weak, sissi, pansi, too emotnal, not tough enough to pete sports, that fal dive was for you.
Wh his glor fal round of six div, the 20-year-old Atralian beme the most signifint openly gay male athlete ever (out lbians such as Marta Navratilova and Ameile Mrmo have won their fair share of tl).
TOM DALEY ‘CREDIBLY PROUD’ TO BE A GAY MAN AND OLYMPIC CHAMPN AFTER WNG GOLD
Watchg the divg all week, I would bet my life savgs that Mcham was not the only gay man on the sprgboard or platform.
And Greg Louganis, also gay and wner of multiple gold medals, is nsired the greatt diver ever. Never before have gay sports fan been able to watch a man they know is gay w such a major sportg event; no need for gaydar wh Matthew.
His story ronat bee ’s universal for lns of people, pecially for many who are gay: Stgglg wh prsn, his sexualy and posssg a rebell streak and a taste for partyg for a kid who was not sure he f (he might have been the only diver Beijg to have a pierced tongue). He has unrstandably said that he do not want to be known as the “gay diver.
GAY DIVER ERIC BLEVS WS TWO GOLD MEDALS AT WORLD MASTERS CHAMPNSHIPS
” “Beg gay and divg are pletely separate parts of my life, ” he told journalists after wng the gold. Of urse, that is the attu he should take, but he has bee a role mol for gays everywhere, whether active sports or not, simply by beg the way he is. Mcham’s succs will not e a flood of gay athlet to sudnly e out.
Mcham, though, n act as a symbol that one n be openly gay and yet still sle the heights of their sport. Matthew Mcham, out and proud gay man.
For Daley, who is openly gay, and Lee, was a stunng w over the favored Che divers Cao Yuan and Chen Aisen and played out dramatic fashn that saw the Brs w the gold by 1. After the petn, Daley had some powerful ments on what meant to w the gold medal as an openly gay athlete. “I feel credibly proud to say I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn.
NEW ZEALAND’S FIRST OLYMPIC DIVER 37 YEARS IS OUT AND PROUDLY GAY
Eric Blevs, an acplished llege diver and now llege divg ach who is openly gay, won two gold medals the 1-meter and 3-meter sprgboard at the the 18th FINA World Masters Champnships Gwangju, South Korea.