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WATCH: THE BT FROM 6 OLYMPIC GAY DIVERS
He went on to w the gold medal and bee the first man to w back-to-back Olympic golds both the sprgboard and platform divg what had ially appeared to be a straightforward eback story beme more plited when Louganis revealed seven years later that he was gay and that he had been diagnosed wh HIV six months before the 1988 Gam. ”She adds that “ 1988, there’s an assumptn that Olympians are jt not gay... But there was still no effective treatment, people were dyg by the thoands and many Amerins wrongly believed was only a “gay man’s disease.
Years later he would e out as gay. And 1994, he acknowledged his sexualy at the Gay Gam New York, says Out Sports. Five gay divers peted the Olympics before Bra's Tom Daley.
While Seoul, Castillo wnsed gay Olympic legend Greg Louganis htg his head durg a dive. Matthew Helm was actually the untry's first diver to pete while openly gay, and he won the silver medal for this dive 2004 for the 10m platform. After those Gam he retired, havg won an unprecented 47 natnal and 13 world 1994 Louganis announced publicly that he was gay and the followg year disclosed that he had AIDS.