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Privately, he was known as the first openly gay MLB player, eventually g out fully 1982.

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After g out as gay and troducg his partner to the world as the first gay uple to be featured People magaze, Wadll ed his platform and public persona to found the Gay Olympic Gam 1982, tend to act as a safe space for Olympic level athlet to pete whout fear or stigma of their sexualy. After the Olympics sued him for g the word Olympics, was changed to simply the Gay Gam, which is still played every four years to this day. More than his succsful reer, Smh, after he retired, moved to Texas and opened a gay bar lled The Boathoe.

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In his 1977 memoir "The David Kopay Story, " Kopay talks about the eply paful secret of beg gay the NFL and what was like to hi om his iends and loved on.

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After g out as gay at the 1994 Gay Gam, Louganis took a step further a year later and publicly announced his AIDS diagnosis.

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