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Contents:
- NICK WAGMAN, HEAD TO THE TOKYO OLYMPICS, TALKS FOR THE FIRST TIME ABOUT BEG A GAY ATHLETE, MARRIED TO HIS HBAND
- ROBERT DOVER WAS THE FIRST OUT GAY OLYMPIC ATHLETE, 1988
- GAY/BI MALE RIRS.
NICK WAGMAN, HEAD TO THE TOKYO OLYMPICS, TALKS FOR THE FIRST TIME ABOUT BEG A GAY ATHLETE, MARRIED TO HIS HBAND
Nick Wagman found refuge ridg hors and growg up gay. Now he’s head to the Olympics an out gay man. * gay dressage riders *
Nick Wagman has never talked to the media about beg a gay athlete. Now head to the Tokyo Summer Olympic Gam wh Team USA, the drsage rir is sharg his story wh the media, as an out gay athlete, for the first time. On the latt episo of Five Rgs To Rule Them All, Wagman talks about his journey as a gay man, and how drsage was a place of acceptance and fort as he was growg up.
“Not knowg I as gay at the time, I felt a ltle awkward around my peers and this was a really good outlet for me to put my energy to, and I found a really healthy place to do that, ” Wagman says on the podst. While he hasn’t talked wh the media about beg gay until now, he has been livg his life openly on Instagram for que a while. The woman h on him pretty hard, and Dover — the closet but knowg he was gay — was left tryg to bsh off whout lookg disterted.
ROBERT DOVER WAS THE FIRST OUT GAY OLYMPIC ATHLETE, 1988
* gay dressage riders *
The gay drsage rir for Great Bra pleted his Olympic medal trifecta wh the bronze, havg earned gold the 2012 Gam and then silver R.
In 1988, at the height of the AIDS crisis, Robert Dover ma Olympics history by blazg a trail for generatns of gay athlet to e. That was when Dover matter-of-factly told the public that he was gay.
“My thg was, ‘My name’s Robert Dover, I’m the token Jewish gay boy on the U.
GAY/BI MALE RIRS.
I was somebody who wasn’t aaid to talk about beg openly gay Olympic sport.