Gay Diver Tom Daley Ws First Gold Medal, Vows to 'Carry On'

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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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5 TIM OPENLY GAY DIVER MATTHEW MCHAM SLAYED, AND OUT OF HIS SPEEDOS

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. * olympic gay diver *

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 man.Daley me out a YouTube vio 2013 shortly after he began datg his now-hband, Dt Lance Black.

Acrdg to Outsports, there are 168 openly LGBTQ+ athlet petg at the Tokyo Gam, which is triple the then-rerd total om the 2016 Olympics (56)."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.

GAY DIVER TOM DALEY WS FIRST GOLD MEDAL, VOWS TO 'CARRY ON'

Jordan Wdle is straight but has a gay dad. Now wh Greg Louganis’ help, he’s petg the Tokyo Summer Olympics. * olympic gay diver *

Barthel is divg for Germany and do not classify himself as gay or straight but simply intifi as “human.

OLYMPIC DIVER JORDAN WDLE HAS STOOD UP FOR GAY ATHLET AFTER BEG BULLIED HIMSELF

Gay Olympic role mols such as Atralian Matthew Mcham and England's Tom Daley have led the way for Anton Down-Jenks to bee the first diver * olympic gay diver *

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.

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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. 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.

He out publicly as gay, then stuns Beijg wh a perfect dive.

It also ma him the first out gay Olympic gold medalist.

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U.S. Olympic diver Jordan Wdle was adopted om a Cambodian orphanage by gay Amerin man and now fights for LGBTQ rights. * olympic gay diver *

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. "I feel credibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn. The 21-year-old New Zealanr, who intifi as gay, was exultant after clearg the prelimary round and took to Instagram to exprs his light wh the rult:.

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Jordan Wdle has been around gay people almost all of his life. 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...

DIVER TOM DALEY WS GOLD: 'I AM A GAY MAN AND ALSO AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN'

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. The victory was pecially meangful for Daley his send Olympics as an openly gay man. "I feel credibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn, " said Daley who was visibly emotnal.

Daley's Amerin-born hband won a screenwrg Osr 2008 for “Milk, " the bgraphil film based on the life of gay rights activist and polician Harvey Milk. 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.

NEW ZEALAND’S FIRST OLYMPIC DIVER 37 YEARS IS OUT AND PROUDLY GAY

3 m readGay Olympic role mols such as Atralian Matthew Mcham and England’s Tom Daley have led the way for Anton Down-Jenks to bee the first diver to reprent New Zealand at an Olympic Gam sce 1984 and be open about beg gay as the Tokyo Olympics Gam opened overnight.

U.S. DIVER ADOPTED OM CAMBODIA AND RAISED BY A GAY DAD HOP TO SPIRE OTHERS

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The divg legend, who beme the first out gay Olympian to w a gold medal durg the 2008 Summer Gam, will make his U. Mcham will play two rol a revival of Strangers Between, the Atralian classic that picts the highs and lows of growg up gay ral Atralia.

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The protagonist, Shane, beiends an olr gay man and meets a sual lover.

Mcham was so unfortable wh his homosexualy, he physilly tried to supprs his feelgs for men. “I was so sred of that I would actually tie a bber band around my wrist, and every time I had a gay thought I would snap , to try and associate pa and sufferg wh the gay thought. To try and tra myself out of beg gay” he told BBC 2021.

Today, the Olympian volunteers wh the anizatn Controllg Chemsex, which works to bat the reliance on dgs sexual enunters the LGBTQ+ muny, pecially for gay men.

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