Mark Foster: Former swimmer and Olympian says 'now is the time' as he reveals he is gay | The Inpennt | The Inpennt

Contents:

• TOM DALEY AFTER WNG GOLD: ‘I'M GAY AND AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN'
• 'I FEEL VERY EMPOWERED': DIVER TOM DALEY DISCS BEG OPENLY GAY AFTER WNG GOLD
• MARK FOSTER: FORMER SWIMMER AND OLYMPIAN SAYS 'NOW IS THE TIME' AS HE REVEALS HE IS GAY
• EX-OLYMPIC SWIMMER MARK FOSTER OUT AS GAY
• FAMEWATCHER SEARCH PRIMARY MENU SKIP TO NTENT HOMECELEBRY HAIR TRANSPLANTCELEBRY PLASTIC SURGERYCELEBRY LEATHER JACKETBODY SHAPER SEARCH FOR: GAY MALE ATHLET, HOT MALE SWIMMERS, SWIMWEAR FOR MENGAY SWIMMERS LIST: OLYMPIANS AND COLLEGE STARS
• DAN JERVIS: 'I WANT TO BE THAT ROLE MOL FOR SOMEONE' - SWIMMER OPENS UP ON BEG GAY
• OLYMPIC SWIMMER MARK THORMEYER PERFORMED AT HIS PEAK AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• BRISH OLYMPIC SWIMMER DAN JERVIS COM OUT AS 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'

TOM DALEY AFTER WNG GOLD: ‘I'M GAY AND AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN'

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. 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. 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. "I feel credibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn, " he said.

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

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. Sign up to our ee sport newsletter for all the latt news on everythg om cyclg to boxgSign up to our ee sport email for all the latt newsThe former Olympic swimmer Mark Foster has e out as gay an terview wh The Guardian, clarg: “I tiptoed around the shadows for so long, but now is the time to e out” is a former world champn and has reprented Great Bra at five Olympic Gam. And I’m not the first gay sportsman to e out.

“There was that stuff about Becky [Adlgton] but she knows I’m gay and knows my other half. I’m gay.

MARK FOSTER: FORMER SWIMMER AND OLYMPIAN SAYS 'NOW IS THE TIME' AS HE REVEALS HE IS GAY

’”Stonewall is currently nng s Rabow Lac mpaign (Getty)Foster also says that he unrstands why football players are hant to e out as gay. “I unrstand what’s stoppg gay footballers g out, ” Foster says. But if a gay footballer me out would change so many attus.

B: Danny Jervis, the Brish Olympic swimmer who publicly me out as gay right before this year’s Commonwealth Gam, grew up a small village South Wal. Welsh Olympic swimmer Dan Jervis says he wants to spire others after g out as gay. Comg out: While Jervis says he always knew he was gay, he didn’t e to grips wh his sexualy until he was 24 when he reached a breakg pot and uld no longer hi.

EX-OLYMPIC SWIMMER MARK FOSTER OUT AS GAY

“I said to her: ‘I thk I’m gay. ’ I uldn’t even say: ‘I’m gay.

FAMEWATCHER SEARCH PRIMARY MENU SKIP TO NTENT HOMECELEBRY HAIR TRANSPLANTCELEBRY PLASTIC SURGERYCELEBRY LEATHER JACKETBODY SHAPER SEARCH FOR: GAY MALE ATHLET, HOT MALE SWIMMERS, SWIMWEAR FOR MENGAY SWIMMERS LIST: OLYMPIANS AND COLLEGE STARS

He’s a proud gay Christian man. “There is this thg where people say you n’t be Christian and gay together, and I was stg there knowg you n be bee I am.

There are several untri the Commonwealth where ’s still illegal to be gay.

DAN JERVIS: 'I WANT TO BE THAT ROLE MOL FOR SOMEONE' - SWIMMER OPENS UP ON BEG GAY

“Now is a good time for me bee the Commonwealth Gam is a month’s time and there’s gog to be a lot of people watchg that and there’s so many untri the Commonwealth where beg gay is illegal, ” he told the BBC. Subscribe to Queerty for a daily dose of #life #dannyjervis #gayswimmer stori and more.

”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.

OLYMPIC SWIMMER MARK THORMEYER PERFORMED AT HIS PEAK AFTER G OUT AS GAY

Had he thought he might be gay?

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

”What advice would he give a gay footballer?

BRISH OLYMPIC SWIMMER DAN JERVIS COM OUT AS GAY

Mark Foster adms he 'tiptoed around' subject of his sexualy as ex-Team GB Olympic swimmer out as gaySix-time former world champn swimmer Mark Foster has e out as gayThe 47-year-old says he believ he had 'always been tellg half-tths public'Foster has gone on to work as ach, pund, and was on Strictly Come DancgHe says he would have won more his reer if he hadn't shied away om issue Updated: 15:24 BST, 27 November 2017. Swimmer Mark Foster felt he had not been te to himself as he 'tiptoed around' issu over his sexualy for so long before g out as 47-year-old six-time world champn, who rried the Great Bra flag at the openg ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Gam Beijg, nfirmed he was gay a wi-rangg terview wh the Guardian, which was published on Monday ma the cisn after believg he had always been 'tellg half-tths public' spe the full support of iends and fay.

Former Brish athlete Mark Foster has revealed an terview that he is g out as gayThe ex-world champn, pictured at the Pri of Bra Awards, says he has told 'half-tths'Sce retirg, Foster - who claimed 11 European Champnship gold medals, was twice Commonwealth Gam champn, set eight sprt world rerds and also peted across five Olympics - has gone on to work as a ach and media pund, as well as appearg on the BBC's Strictly Come Dancg programme. And I'm not the first gay sportsman to e out. I was shocked by the treatment of gay people Rsia and need to say somethg - whout revealg anythg about myself.

He add the Guardian terview: 'There was that stuff about Becky, but she knows I'm gay and knows my other half. I'm gay. Gay Swimmers List: Olympians and College Stars.

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

Today Gay Male Athlet, we brg you a list of LGBT athlet who are rock’ the world of swimmg whether Olympic lan, universy swimmg pools, or elsewhere. He claims that he was dropped om the team bee he is gay but the team ach ni the charge but did not expla why he was exclud. Check out what we wrote about him back 2017: Mark Foster Tewksbury is another gay male swimmer who n boast of wng several medals om ternatnal meets.

"'I uldn't even say 'I'm gay' - I was basilly punchg the words out'Until today, that's been the Jervis the world knew - a proud Welshman, an Olympian, and one of Bra's top swimmg he's ready to talk about the fact he's gay as well.

"I said to her: 'I thk I'm gay. ' I uldn't even say: 'I'm gay. And there is this thg where people say you n't be Christian and gay together, and I was stg there knowg you n be bee I am!