The Olympic diver has always been proud to reprent his untry. But makg a documentary about gay rights the Commonwealth led to a revelatn
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- OLYMPIC SWIMMER DAN JERVIS OUT, WANTS TO BE VISIBLE GAY ATHLETE AT THE COMMONWEALTH GAM
- THIS OUT GAY OLYMPIAN SAYS ’S A RELIEF TO PETE WHOUT HIDG HER SEXUALY
- GLEN QUAYLE IS AN OUT GAY POLE VLTER THE NCAA AND COMMONWEALTH GAM
- 'GAY KISS' AT COMMONWEALTH GAM OPENER PRAISED
- GAY KISS STEALS SHOW AT COMMONWEALTH GAM OPENG CEREMONY
- SWIMMER DAN JERVIS OUT AS GAY AHEAD OF COMMONWEALTH GAM
OLYMPIC SWIMMER DAN JERVIS OUT, WANTS TO BE VISIBLE GAY ATHLETE AT THE COMMONWEALTH GAM
Reprentatn at the Gam is already more than three tim greater than at Gold Coast 2018, and creasg day-by-day; Sports Media LGBT+, media partner on Pri Hoe Birmgham, workg wh historian Tony Scupham-Bilton on rearch; om prev Gam, at least 75 former petors are known to be LGBTQ+ and out; over 50 of the athlet past and prent featurg ‘Photos of Pri’ exhibn at ma Pri Hoe venue Birmgham’s Gay Village * gay commonwealth games *
Reprentatn at the Gam is already more than three tim greater than at Gold Coast 2018, and creasg day-by-day; Sports Media LGBT+, media partner on Pri Hoe Birmgham, workg wh historian Tony Scupham-Bilton on rearch; om prev Gam, at least 75 former petors are known to be LGBTQ+ and out; over 50 of the athlet past and prent featurg ‘Photos of Pri’ exhibn at ma Pri Hoe venue Birmgham’s Gay Village.
The ma Pri Hoe is loted the heart of the cy’s Gay Village, above The Loft Bar & Kchen at 143 Bromsgrove St, and was officially opened before the start of the Commonwealth Gam. The list of out athlet was piled by Jon Holm, a gay sports journalist and advote who currently ns Sports Media LGBT+, and Tony Scupham-Bilton, an expert on LGBTQ history and the world’s most-renowned expert on LGBTQ history the Olympic Gam; He ns a fantastic blog lled Queerstory Fil. Image ptn, Birmgham 2022 is expected to be the most clive Gam yetCountri where is illegal to be gay are ls likely to host the Commonwealth Gam the future, the head of s feratn has than half of the 54 untri petg Birmgham 2022 have laws agast same sex athlet will be able to wave the rabow flag on the podium for the first time at the Sadlier, of the Commonwealth Gam Feratn, said "embrac clivens everythg we do".
"It's a human right, beg gay.
THIS OUT GAY OLYMPIAN SAYS ’S A RELIEF TO PETE WHOUT HIDG HER SEXUALY
The out gay Olympian says peted as her te self is a wonrful feelg. * gay commonwealth games *
Loted the cy's gay village, Pri Hoe Birmgham, which lnched on Friday, is led by 50 volunteers who will wele people - athlet, spectators and alli - to Birmgham and celebrate the diversy of the cy and be a safe and clive space durg the gam. When champn diver and gay rights advote Tom Daley entered Alexanr Stadium Birmgham, England, on July 28 as one of the fal athlet chosen to fish the Queen’s Baton Relay, the Commonwealth Gam’ equivalent to the Olympic torch, to officially open the 22nd Gam, he was flanked by an honor guard of activists rryg Pri flags.
“I thk the Commonwealth is strategic and n wield more power pellg member untri to crimalizg homosexualy, by takg [a] stronger stance beyond mov like banng untri om hostg gam, ” Oluchi said. Dan Jervis, an Olympic swimmer reprentg Great Bra, has e out publicly as gay, sayg he wants to be visible for other gay athlet. “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.
GLEN QUAYLE IS AN OUT GAY POLE VLTER THE NCAA AND COMMONWEALTH GAM
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He also talks the terview about beg Christian, as well as other gay athlet who have spired him. Gilmour, who’s badmton’s hight-ranked out gay player at No. “I thk Asian untri are makg huge stris, wh Taiwan beg one of the first untri to legalize gay marriage, ” she said.
Sce then, he’s simply been “out” as a gay athlete. While he’s found support amongst teammat, he’s also felt some homophobia om the broar muny there.
— almost 300 wt of Mneapolis — might not be the most supportive place for an out gay man. When someone at the party asked him if he was gay, and he affirmed that fact, the rponse he received was ls than kd.
'GAY KISS' AT COMMONWEALTH GAM OPENER PRAISED
Homosexualy is illegal 36 untri takg part Birmgham 2022 and the diver has prevly said that the Commonwealth n do more to support gay rights * gay commonwealth games *
That was one of my first face-to-face experienc wh homophobia.
Still, the ocsnal homophobia Quayle has faced South Dakota has been hard for him to handle. Gay and bisexual men still make up the majory of HIV diagnos but now reprent a smaller portn, acuntg for 57% of new s last year pared wh 79% Glich, who heads the Kirby Instute’s HIV epimlogy and preventn program, said the group uld be virtually HIV-ee wh the next three to five years.
The Olympic diver Tom Daley has nmned homophobia across Commonwealth natns ahead of the start of petn the Commonwealth Gam Birmgham this part of a new BBC documentary to be aired next month, the athlete vised some of the Commonwealth’s most homophobic untri to expose the danger and discrimatn faced by the LGBT+ muny.
GAY KISS STEALS SHOW AT COMMONWEALTH GAM OPENG CEREMONY
“I’ve experienced homophobia all my life, petg untri where ’s illegal to be me and where I don’t feel safe to leave the venue I’m petg , ” he said. ”The film will culmate wh Daley, who won gold at the Commonwealth Gam 2018, rryg the Queen’s baton to Birmgham’s Alexanr Stadium for the openg ceremony on Thursday, acpanied by some of the athlet and advot he met on his documentary will show him speakg wh a number of LGBT+ athlet cludg Michael Gunng, the only openly gay athlete on Jamai’s natnal team, and Dutee Chand, India’s first openly gay of 56 Commonwealth member stat, 35 crimalise same-sex relatns, makg up half of the untri globally that outlaw homosexualy. “The Commonwealth is a homophobic stutn.
And an effort to uplift other LGBTQ athlet and activists—some om untri where homosexualy is outlawed—Daley brought along six other out petors and public figur om the Commonwealth. It’s one thg for one of the most famo gay athlet the world to e his platform to advote for our muny on the world stage.
Alimi, for stance, is the first gay man to e out publicly on Nigerian televisn.
SWIMMER DAN JERVIS OUT AS GAY AHEAD OF COMMONWEALTH GAM
And Chand has broken barriers as the Indian natnal team’s first openly gay athlete.
He explaed to the media: “I’ve experienced homophobia all my life, petg untri where ’s illegal to be me and where I don’t feel safe to leave the venue I’m petg . As a gay athlete who has won multiple FINA World Seri medals Vladimir Put’s Rsia, Daley’s life experienc have helped him empathize wh out petors like Chand and Jamain swimmer Michael Gunng.