Gay Florida State diver Aidan Famoff fds niche as an out athlete - Outsports

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• THERE ARE A RERD 11 OPENLY GAY MALE OLYMPIANS R. NONE IS AN AMERIN.
• FROM LLEGE SWIMMER TO HIGH SCHOOL ACH, GAY ATHLETE STAYED TE TO HIMSELF
• 5 TIM OPENLY GAY DIVER MATTHEW MCHAM SLAYED, AND OUT OF HIS SPEEDOS
• IS TOM DALEY GAY? HE'S A DIVER, SO HE MT BE
• THIS OLYMPIC DIVER DON’T INTIFY AS ‘GAY’ OR ‘STRAIGHT,’ BUT ‘HUMAN’
• CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: OUT GAY DIVER MATTHEW MCHAM WS OLYMPIC GOLD
• OLYMPIC DIVER JORDAN WDLE HAS STOOD UP FOR GAY ATHLET AFTER BEG BULLIED HIMSELF
• TOM DALEY IS DAMN PROUD TO BE AN OPENLY GAY OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST
• GAY FLORIDA STATE DIVER FDS HIS NICHE AS AN OUT AND SUCCSFUL ATHLETE

THERE ARE A RERD 11 OPENLY GAY MALE OLYMPIANS R. NONE IS AN AMERIN.

When the Olympics start this weekend R Janeiro, there will be a rerd 41 publicly out gay, lbian and bisexual athlet. Includ this total are a rerd 11 gay male athlet.

FROM LLEGE SWIMMER TO HIGH SCHOOL ACH, GAY ATHLETE STAYED TE TO HIMSELF

Diver Patrick Jefey was openly gay as a diver the 1996 Olympics. Barthel is divg for Germany and do not classify himself as gay or straight but simply intifi as “human. He was adopted om Cambodia at 18 months, and his adoptive father, Jerry, is gay.

5 TIM OPENLY GAY DIVER MATTHEW MCHAM SLAYED, AND OUT OF HIS SPEEDOS

In addn, Wdle has ntributed to the It Gets Better mpaign and was mentored om an early age by gay divg legend Greg Louganis—to the pot where he was nicknamed “The Ltle Louganis.

He’s one of the bt and most important stori of the Tokyo Gam after wng his first gold medal Men’s Synchro wh divg partner Matty Lee and spirg lns by clarg, “I feel credibly proud to say I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn. From llege swimmer to high school ach, gay athlete stayed te to himself. ‘The most challengg part of beg gay has actually been enuragg myself to be more open wh others, ’ MacJilton Lewis wr.

IS TOM DALEY GAY? HE'S A DIVER, SO HE MT BE

When Brish diver Tom Daley announced he was gay, ronated wh me. However, after that first nversatn wh my mom, was not as if the floodgat opened and I began tellg everyone my life that I was gay.

Even though I uld sense I was a supportive environment at Cleveland State (where I attend llege and petively swam), was not until my sophomore year that I was ready to open up to one of my teammat. The most challengg part of beg gay has still been enuragg myself to be more open wh others.

I unrstand the importance of lovg myself for who I am: an athlete, a ach, a son, a brother and a iend — who happens to be gay. Atralian diver Matthew Mcham will forever be celebrated as the first out gay Olympic gold medalist, but the now-retired athlete jt add another big “first” to his long list of acplishments. He out publicly as gay, then stuns Beijg wh a perfect dive.

THIS OLYMPIC DIVER DON’T INTIFY AS ‘GAY’ OR ‘STRAIGHT,’ BUT ‘HUMAN’

It also ma him the first out gay Olympic gold medalist. It was wonrful to see him such fe form, and while he n’t have been thrilled to lose his signature 10 m platform event to a then-closeted Tom Daley, Mcham’s succs as an openly gay diver no doubt set the stage for Daley and many more gay athlet to e out. Soon after the Gam he beme addicted to crystal meth, which remas a rampant issue the gay muny.

Here's a fact: In the entire history of the Olympics, there has never been an openly gay male gymnast. We've had a gay thlete, nner, hurdler and high jumper, among others.

CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: OUT GAY DIVER MATTHEW MCHAM WS OLYMPIC GOLD

Yet gymnastics, along wh divg, has been wily perceived as a "gay" sport, while the same is not said for track and field. Hence, the emails I have gotten askg whether Brish diver Tom Daley is gay (Not that I know of). Matthew Mcham om Atralia is the only openly gay diver London.

Gay men do like watchg gymnastics and divg, for obv reasons. And divg at least, we have had petors who were gay while petg or me out after. Both sports are also perceived as beg more tolerant of gay participants.

It uld be that gay athlet self-select for certa sports, avoidg some seen as beg ls fans assume certa sports are gay. ”Part of the reason for the "divg is gay" stereotype are the swimsus, the tight Speedo variety that no straight Amerin du would be ught ad .

OLYMPIC DIVER JORDAN WDLE HAS STOOD UP FOR GAY ATHLET AFTER BEG BULLIED HIMSELF

There is even as Inter meme "Olympics or gay porn? " that foc almost exclively on men's divg, wh Tom Daley ont and stereotyp are by their nature oversimplified, hence the ia that divers and gymnasts are gay, while weightlifters and water polo players are not.

Nothg gay about football. Yet, the late folklorist Alan Duns wrote a famo paper the 1970s that argued that football "providg as do a socially sanctned amework for male body ntact … is a form of homosexual behavr.

The stigma of llg somethg gay has lost some of s stg and even we n get on the act as this SB Natn, Cyd and I did attt to. Jt be aware that gay athlet are every sport, so never assume. Heath Thorpe, a gay athlete who is one of the bt gymnasts Atralia, has been left off of the untry’s team head to the World Gymnastics Champnships.

TOM DALEY IS DAMN PROUD TO BE AN OPENLY GAY OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST

Gay sounds too hard, ” he replied. But I am not homosexual. We asked: Would you be fortable wh sayg, “Timo Barthel isn’t gay or straight or any other label.

Whe, black, orange, thick, th, gay.........!!! 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.

GAY FLORIDA STATE DIVER FDS HIS NICHE AS AN OUT AND SUCCSFUL ATHLETE

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). 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.