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.
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- 'I FEEL VERY EMPOWERED': DIVER TOM DALEY DISCS BEG OPENLY GAY AFTER WNG GOLD
- TOM DALEY ‘CREDIBLY PROUD TO SAY I AM GAY AND AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN’
- CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: GREG LOUGANIS OUT AS GAY
- 5 TIM OPENLY GAY DIVER MATTHEW MCHAM SLAYED, AND OUT OF HIS SPEEDOS
- CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: OUT GAY DIVER MATTHEW MCHAM WS OLYMPIC GOLD
- THIS OLYMPIC DIVER DON’T INTIFY AS ‘GAY’ OR ‘STRAIGHT,’ BUT ‘HUMAN’
- FOR GAY DE DIVER, CLN ON HIS TEAM WASN’T AN EMPTY PHRASE
- ‘I AM A GAY MAN AND ALSO AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN’: TOM DALEY AFTER WNG A GOLD MEDAL TOKYO
- IS TOM DALEY GAY? HE'S A DIVER, SO HE MT BE
- WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE
- TOM DALEY IS DAMN PROUD TO BE AN OPENLY GAY OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST
'I FEEL VERY EMPOWERED': DIVER TOM DALEY DISCS BEG OPENLY GAY AFTER WNG GOLD
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TOM DALEY ‘CREDIBLY PROUD TO SAY I AM GAY AND AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN’
Mcham will forever be celebrated as the first out gay Olympic gold medalist, but he jt add another big "first" to his long list of acplishments. * diving gay athletes *
He was adopted om Cambodia at 18 months, and his adoptive father, Jerry, is gay. 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.
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. He me out publicly as gay at the Gay Gam 1994, but was out to those around him om an early was the 'g out to myself' procs like for you?
CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: GREG LOUGANIS OUT AS GAY
There are at least 168 athlet at the Tokyo Olympics who are publicly out as gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, queer or nonbary. That figure is three... * diving gay athletes *
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.
5 TIM OPENLY GAY DIVER MATTHEW MCHAM SLAYED, AND OUT OF HIS SPEEDOS
Stereotyp are alive well Olympic sports, as gay qutns follow Tom Daley and other divers * diving gay athletes *
“I feel credibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn. Today, a look back at that day 1994 that -founr Jim Buzski scribed as the first time Olympian Greg Louganis publicly acknowledged he is gay. Diver Greg Louganis out publicly at Gay Gam IV.
“Wele to the Gay Gam, ’s great to be out and proud.
” Wh those words, gold medal Olympic diver Greg Louganis livered a msage to the Openg Ceremoni of Gay Gam IV New York. While might have been Louganis’ official public g out, his beg gay was long mored the sports world.
CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: OUT GAY DIVER MATTHEW MCHAM WS OLYMPIC GOLD
It did not make his statement at the Gay Gam any ls powerful. That shows guts, termatn and toughns, all quali that the stereotyp say gay men uld not have athletics. Louganis is healthy spe beg HIV-posive, yet is ncerned that younger gay men see the disease as somethg easily treatable:.
THIS OLYMPIC DIVER DON’T INTIFY AS ‘GAY’ OR ‘STRAIGHT,’ BUT ‘HUMAN’
To improve LGBTQ reprentatn profsnal sports, Schweighofer and Denison said, ach and lears youth sports should set a precent that homophobic language and discrimatn are unacceptable. Sometim the Gam have taken place untri where homosexualy is not wily accepted or where legislatn impacts LGBTQ rints. Denison’s rearch fds that most LGBTQ athlet leave their sports as young people, a parture driven by a culture of homophobic language and stereotyp.
Daley has said that while he’s accepted his sport of divg, he often pet agast divers om untri where beg gay is crimalized. And Rapoe 2018 said that, as a kid, she “would have loved to have more rmatn” about what meant to be gay and why g homophobic slurs was wrong. “Anytime you hear somebody say, ‘Oh, that’s gay, ’ or whatever, those thgs matter, ” said Rapoe, who didn’t e out to her teammat until llege.
FOR GAY DE DIVER, CLN ON HIS TEAM WASN’T AN EMPTY PHRASE
Homophobic slurs ntue to be prevalent sports – a 2020 study om Out on the Fields, which studi LGBTQ cln sports, found that more than 80% of gay participants had heard them ed while playg. When ach and teammat e gay slurs equently, sends the msage that the language is harmls and OK to e – and solidifi the belief that all members of the team are heterosexual, Denison said.
‘I AM A GAY MAN AND ALSO AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN’: TOM DALEY AFTER WNG A GOLD MEDAL TOKYO
The same Out on the Fields study reported that over 81% of gay men unr 22 hid their sexualy to avoid rejectn by teammat or discrimatn by ach or officials, among other reasons.
But we n assume that many s, gay players will jt drop out of their sport. That’s a problem for profsnal sports – wh few gay players sport, there will be even fewer who will make profsnally. “Boys and young men are tght to avoid anythg associated wh femy, most notably weakns, emotn, and homosexualy, ” said Schweighofer, whose work on LGBTQ cln sports has appeared the publitn of the Natnal Park Foundatn.
IS TOM DALEY GAY? HE'S A DIVER, SO HE MT BE
The same homophobic norms that affect men sports impact women and girls, too, and they origated the 19th century, Denison said.
Homophobic stereotyp of women athlet, though no longer based on women’s abily to reproduce, persist today, Denison said. 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.
WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE
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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. Today, we revis Augt 23, 2008, the day Beijg, Cha, when an out gay man won a gold medal at the Olympic Summer Gam.
TOM DALEY IS DAMN PROUD TO BE AN OPENLY GAY OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST
What Mcham’s w means to gays everywhere.