The gay athlete said he is ‘heartbroken’ over the cisn to exclu him om the World Champnships.
Contents:
- GAY FORMER LLEGE GYMNAST SAYS HIS SPORT IS AN ‘ENDANGERED SPECI’
- THERE ARE A RERD 11 OPENLY GAY MALE OLYMPIANS R. NONE IS AN AMERIN.
- FOR GAY OLYMPIC GYMNAST DOMIC CLARKE, G OUT ALLOWED HIM TO SHE TOKYO
- ROSIE COSSAR, 2012 OLYMPIC GYMNAST, ON BEG GAY AND CHANGG THE SPORTS WORLD
- JOSH DIXON, OLYMPICS GYMNASTICS HOPEFUL, COM OUT AS GAY
GAY FORMER LLEGE GYMNAST SAYS HIS SPORT IS AN ‘ENDANGERED SPECI’
Domic Clarke had a ‘gay old time’ beg himself at the Olympics once he embraced who he was. * gay gymnast percentage *
“Boys beg homosexually abed by their gymnastics ach is an issue that has been rampant for many, many years and, as far as we’re ncerned, do not get the ‘prs’ needs to and should, ” Riegel wrote to USA Gymnastics last October. Riegel’s own drive to bee an Olympian, to get out of Readg, his own fatuatn wh his growg fame, the screamg girls, the tograph seekers, his fear of how he would be viewed the often homophobic circl of his workg class neighborhood, were all hammers Moyer wield over him to pound down any threats of gog to the police, to his parents, anyone.
’ And he would make me somethg to eat, he’d go to his bedroom, he’d put on a vio on one of those old projector reels and I uld see out of the rner of my eye, a homosexual vio and he’d lay there and pleasure himself wh me at 11, 12, 13, right there the room on the uch which was pla sight of his bed.
Riegel wouldn’t tell bee if he did people Southsi would thk he was gay, Moyer ntued, Riegel said. “This was a time when homophobia was rampant Ameri, pecially where he grew up, ” Chris Sey said.
THERE ARE A RERD 11 OPENLY GAY MALE OLYMPIANS R. NONE IS AN AMERIN.
Rosie Cossar heard homophobic language om ach and judg, but felt her role reprentg Canada the Olympics meant she had to e out as gay. * gay gymnast percentage *
“And was pound by the AIDS crisis and you already had that fear of beg acced of beg gay bee of the sport you were . “I’m gog to ask you this one time: Are you gay? Riegel, then jt 16, earned a standg ovatn at the meet after upsettg Mch Gaylord to w the vlt.
Gaylord would go on to w four medals at the 1984 Olympic Gam, cludg a silver the vlt, and bee the first Amerin male to post a perfect 10.
FOR GAY OLYMPIC GYMNAST DOMIC CLARKE, G OUT ALLOWED HIM TO SHE TOKYO
Could Josh Dixon Be The First Openly Gay Olympics Gymnast? * gay gymnast percentage *
“When you’re 12, 13, 14 years old and you’re askg yourself am I gay? I mt be gay.
ROSIE COSSAR, 2012 OLYMPIC GYMNAST, ON BEG GAY AND CHANGG THE SPORTS WORLD
* gay gymnast percentage *
I mt be gay when you don’t know anythg about sex but you know ’s wrong, that ’s unnatural, you start to thk you’re gay.
JOSH DIXON, OLYMPICS GYMNASTICS HOPEFUL, COM OUT AS GAY
Maybe I was tryg to prove to myself that I’m not gay. Across our culture today, when a man “ out” so many immediately label him “gay gay gay! That Leyva don’t intify as gay, is still tryg to figure out how exactly he intifi, and is still willg to share all of this publicly should be empowerg to other men who are the same boat.