Jordan Wdle is Olympic diver who stands up for gay athlet - Outsports

Contents:

• 'I FEEL VERY EMPOWERED': DIVER TOM DALEY DISCS BEG OPENLY GAY AFTER WNG GOLD
• 5 TIM OPENLY GAY DIVER MATTHEW MCHAM SLAYED, AND OUT OF HIS SPEEDOS
• ATHLET WHO ARE GAY
• DIVG HAS A NEW GAY PUP BOY, ANTON DOWN-JENKS FIRST KIWI OLYMPIC DIVER ALMOST 40 YEARS
• OLYMPIC DIVER JORDAN WDLE HAS STOOD UP FOR GAY ATHLET AFTER BEG BULLIED HIMSELF
• NEW ZEALAND’S FIRST OLYMPIC DIVER 37 YEARS IS OUT AND PROUDLY GAY
• THIS OLYMPIC DIVER DON’T INTIFY AS ‘GAY’ OR ‘STRAIGHT,’ BUT ‘HUMAN’
• WATCH: THE BT FROM 6 OLYMPIC GAY DIVERS
• WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE

'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. 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.

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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. 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.

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

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

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. 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.

ATHLET WHO ARE GAY

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.

DIVG HAS A NEW GAY PUP BOY, ANTON DOWN-JENKS FIRST KIWI OLYMPIC DIVER ALMOST 40 YEARS

Thanks to the proment athlet who are gay, the sports world is beg more and more acceptg of homosexual players. Who is the most famo gay athlete?

Football star Michael Sam ma headl 2014 when he beme the first openly gay athlete to be drafted to the NFL. But he fely wasn’t the first homosexual athlete to fd succs.

Olympic diver Greg Louganis is openly gay. NBA player Jason Colls me out as gay an terview wh Sports Illtrated magaze 2013.

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

He was the first active athlete to e out as gay any of the major Amerin sports. His announcement provoked mixed reactns om his fellow players and the you surprised that so many profsnal athlet are gay?

Share your thoughts the ments Wikimedia Commons / CC-BYOlympic soccer player Megan Rapoe me out as gay 2012. She has been a relatnship wh Atralian soccer player Sarah Walsh for three 38Natnaly: Uned Stat of AmeriBirthplace: Reddg, CaliforniaTeams: Chigo Red StarsTennis great Billie Jean Kg beme the first proment female profsnal athlete to e out as gay back 79Natnaly: Uned Stat of AmeriBirthplace: Long Beach, California, Uned Stat of AmeriOlympic diver Greg Louganis is openly gay.

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

He married his partner Johnny Chaillo 63Natnaly: Uned Stat of AmeriBirthplace: El Cajon, California, Uned Stat of AmeriWNBA player Sheryl Swoop announced that she was gay 2005. " In 2011, she revealed that she was currently datg a man and believed that beg gay was a choice.

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At least 186 publicly out gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, queer and nonbary athlet were Tokyo for the Summer Olympic Gam, more than triple the number who participated at the 2016 R Gam. “Competg at the Olympics as an openly gay athlete is pretty amazg,” Canadian swimmer Mark Thormeyer told Outsports. Thormeyer was not out when he peted at the 2016 R Olympics and me out publicly as gay a 2020 say for Outsports.

THIS OLYMPIC DIVER DON’T INTIFY AS ‘GAY’ OR ‘STRAIGHT,’ BUT ‘HUMAN’

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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.

WATCH: THE BT FROM 6 OLYMPIC GAY DIVERS

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. 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. Gay Natn listed Down-Jenks as one to watch at the Commonwealth Gam 2018.

WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE

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