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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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'I FEEL VERY EMPOWERED': DIVER TOM DALEY DISCS BEG OPENLY GAY AFTER WNG GOLD

"I feel credibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn," the 27-year-old diver om Great Bra told his fans. Daley's gold was the first of his Olympic reer. * gay british olympic 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 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.

When, still damp om the pool after wng his long-awaed gold medal, Brish diver Tom Daley clared his pri at beg a gay man and also an Olympic champn, there were tears and full hearts across the while there was ltle shock – Daley has been a vol advote of LGBTQ+ rights for years – there was a joy and ease to his pronouncement that was new. Photograph: WPA/Getty Imag“When I heard – I’m gog to get emotnal here – when I heard Tom Daley talk the prs nference about beg a proud gay man, and an Olympic gold medalist, I jt thought: y, absolutely y. Photograph: Noah Graham/NBAE/Getty ImagWomen outnumber men on the list of out gay athlet by about an 8-1 marg, wh women’s football alone acuntg for more than 40 out players.

Other gay male petors clu the New Zealand diver Anton Down-Jenks, the equtrians Edward Gal and Hans Peter Mrhoud om the Netherlands and the US x Julian the openg ceremony, the US basketball star Sue Bird, engaged to footballg legend Megan Rapoe, beamed as she bore the US flag. Ziegler rells a gay footballer tellg him about speakg to the cur Iranian football team about his sexualy, bee their untry homosexualy was illegal and punishable by ath. ”While Daley’s post-swim terview was voured by an overwhelmgly supportive public, other athlet risk their liv to be publicly out at the the Polish rower Katarzyna Zillmann won silver the quadple sculls she thanked her girliend, explag that she wanted to e her platform to help the LGBTQ+ muny Poland where there has been a risg wave of homophobia.

DIVER TOM DALEY WS GOLD: 'I AM A GAY MAN AND ALSO 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. * gay british olympic diver *

The Tongan swimmer Ami Fonua is openly gay and a natnal hero a untry were homosexualy is illegal, punishable by up to 10 years prison. Bra’s Tom Daley got his long-awaed gold medal divg on Monday at the Tokyo Olympics and livered an spirg msage to his gay fans.

“I hope that any young LGBT person out there n see that no matter how alone you feel right now, you are not alone and that you n achieve anythg and there is a whole lot of your chosen fay out here ready to support you, ” said Daley, who paired wh Matty Lee to pture the men’s synchronized 10-meter, who won bronze the dividual 10-meter platform London 2012 and a bronze the synchronized platform R 2016, clared:“I feel credibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn.

TOM DALEY IS DAMN PROUD TO BE AN OPENLY GAY OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST

Daley has prevly said that he avoid takg part a petn Rsia shortly after g out bee he felt unsafe given the prevalence of homophobia and a raft of anti-LGBTQ legislatn the untry.

“I feel credibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn, ” said Daley, who ma his Olympic but when he was only 14. ” Daley me out as gay 2013, and is one of at least 142 out LGBTQ athlet petg at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics—the hight number on rerd, acrdg to NGO GLAAD.

DIVER TOM DALEY WS GOLD, SAYS HE’S PROUD TO BE AN OPENLY GAY CHAMPN

In 2017 he married Dt Lance Black, an Amerin screenwrer and filmmaker who won an Amy Award 2008 for his origal screenplay for Milk, a bpic of polician and gay rights activist Harvey Milk. As the stereotype go, gays may not be able to drive.

But they n certaly thank openly gay Brish diver Tom Daley, 27, who won Olympic gold on Monday after a 13-year pursu.

Followg his victory, Daley spoke at a prs nference about beg an openly gay Olympian.

TOM DALEY: OLYMPIC DIVER REVEALS HE IS A GAY RELATNSHIP

“I feel credibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn, ” Daley Lance Black, Daley’s hband and the Osr-wng screenwrer of Milk, praised his hband’s victory on Twter. Star Brish diver Tom Daley secured his first gold medal Monday and said not only is he proud to be an Olympic champn, but also an openly gay man. “I feel credibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn, ” Tom Daley, 27, said to news meras streamg around the world after clchg the gold medal the synchronized 10m platform alongsi his divg partner Matty Lee.

He said Monday beg an openly gay athlete has never been easy — but his victory prov anythg is possible. The Olympic Gam, which has long been a venue for cultural exchange and exposure, was a symbolic stage for Daley to talk about life as an openly gay man, his marriage to film producer Dt Lance Black and their 3-year-old son Robbie.

Stg bi him were athlet om Cha and Rsia, which placed send and third the petn, and ont of him were news meras om those lol — streamg his msag back to both untri where gay marriage is illegal. Per The Guardian, Daley, who me out 2013, said after his long-awaed gold, “I feel credibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn. “I feel credibly proud to say I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn.

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

Barthel is divg for Germany and do not classify himself as gay or straight but simply intifi as “human. He was adopted om Cambodia at 18 months, and his adoptive father, Jerry, is gay.

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

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. Brish divg star Tom Daley reveals he is a gay relatnship.

Earlier this year, September, the London 2012 bronze medalist was voted the world’s sexit man by leadg gay magaze, Attu. Atralia’s Matthew Mcham announced he was homosexual before he won gold Beijg, while four-time Olympic champn Greg Louganis me out as gay after qutg the sport 1995. Read: Gay athlete promis openly fiant stance at Gam.

Read: Hysen says gay soccer players want to e out. Soccer star out as gay. "I feel credibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn, " he add.

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

Daley publicly announced he was gay 2013 followg his bronze medal London, sayg he always felt he was "alone and different and didn't f.

"I feel credibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn, " he said. ”In March 2013, Daley went for dner at a iend’s home Los Angel and met Dt Lance Black, a screenwrer 20 years his senr who won an Osr for Milk, the bpic of gay rights mpaigner Harvey Milk. Had he thought he might be gay?

BRISH DIVER TOM DALEY AFTER WNG FIRST GOLD MEDAL: 'I FEEL CREDIBLY PROUD THAT I AM A GAY MAN AND ALSO AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN'

“He was Mormon, so homosexuals were put the same group as serial killers.

”What advice would he give a gay footballer? TOKYO — Brish diver Tom Daley says he is proud to be able to spire other people as an openly gay athlete, but he is quick to add that global sports still has a long way to go to achieve acceptance and embrace least 182 openly LGBTQ athlet are petg at the Gam, acrdg to, and Daley said there had been progrs sce he first peted at the Beijg Olympics 2008 at 14. Gay Brish diver ws Olympic gold.

"I feel credibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn, " said Daley, acrdg to NBC Philalphia. Gay and Lbian News and Feature Publitn) will be treated.

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Diver Tom Daley ws gold, says he's proud to be a gay champn .

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