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.
Contents:
- 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. And 1994, he acknowledged his sexualy at the Gay Gam New York, says Out Sports.
WATCH: THE BT FROM 6 OLYMPIC GAY DIVERS
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.
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5 TIM OPENLY GAY DIVER MATTHEW MCHAM SLAYED, AND OUT OF HIS SPEEDOS
-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. He eventually me out durg an Oprah Wey terview 1995, and has sce been a proment gay rights activist.
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.
'I FEEL VERY EMPOWERED': DIVER TOM DALEY DISCS BEG OPENLY GAY AFTER WNG GOLD
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. 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.
THIS OLYMPIC DIVER DON’T INTIFY AS ‘GAY’ OR ‘STRAIGHT,’ BUT ‘HUMAN’
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.
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.
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.”. 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.