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.
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- THERE ARE A RERD 11 OPENLY GAY MALE OLYMPIANS R. NONE IS AN AMERIN.
- WATCH: THE BT FROM 6 OLYMPIC GAY DIVERS
- 5 TIM OPENLY GAY DIVER MATTHEW MCHAM SLAYED, AND OUT OF HIS SPEEDOS
- 'I FEEL VERY EMPOWERED': DIVER TOM DALEY DISCS BEG OPENLY GAY AFTER WNG GOLD
- THIS OLYMPIC DIVER DON’T INTIFY AS ‘GAY’ OR ‘STRAIGHT,’ BUT ‘HUMAN’
THERE ARE A RERD 11 OPENLY GAY MALE OLYMPIANS R. NONE IS AN AMERIN.
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.
WATCH: THE BT FROM 6 OLYMPIC GAY DIVERS
And 1994, he acknowledged his sexualy at the Gay Gam New York, says Out Sports.
When the Olympics start this weekend R Janeiro, there will be a rerd 41 publicly out gay, lbian and bisexual athlet. Includ this total are a rerd 11 gay male athlet. Diver Patrick Jefey was openly gay as a diver the 1996 Olympics.
5 TIM OPENLY GAY DIVER MATTHEW MCHAM SLAYED, AND OUT OF HIS SPEEDOS
Ocsnally the digizatn procs troduc transcriptn errors or other problems; we are ntug to work to improve the archived Louganis, the 1984 and 1988 Olympic gold medal diver, who publicly acknowledged his homosexualy for the first time at last year's Gay Gam New York, has said he has an terview wh ABC's "20/20" that will be broadst at 10 P. -posive athlet to announce that they are the terview, Louganis said he had sensed he was different om the time he was a young boy and began to accept his homosexualy durg the 1976 Olympics.
Last year, he appeared "Jefey, " an off-Broadway play about life the age of AIDS, which he played a dyg chos a short vio that played durg the openg ceremony of last June's Gay Gam, Louganis told the crowd: "As an Olympian and as a gay man, I'd like to wele you to the Gay Gam.
'I FEEL VERY EMPOWERED': DIVER TOM DALEY DISCS BEG OPENLY GAY AFTER WNG GOLD
He eventually me out durg an Oprah Wey terview 1995, and has sce been a proment gay rights activist.
THIS OLYMPIC DIVER DON’T INTIFY AS ‘GAY’ OR ‘STRAIGHT,’ BUT ‘HUMAN’
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.