Greg Louganis on Competg as a Gay Olympian – NBC 7 San Diego

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• GREG LOUGANIS’S MASSIVE NET WORTH & GAY LOVE WH HBAND | DETAILED
• “ME LLAMO GREG LOUGANIS, SOY GAY Y SOY SEROPOSIVO”: LA SPIRADORA HISTORIA L MPEóN OLíMPI QUE SE ENENTó AL MUNDO
• CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: GREG LOUGANIS OUT AS GAY
• 25 YEARS OF GAY ISSU ON THE OPRAH SHOW
• 3 OUT GAY HIV+ ATHLET SHARE THEIR STORI

GREG LOUGANIS’S MASSIVE NET WORTH & GAY LOVE WH HBAND | DETAILED

Gregory Louganis's Abive Gay Partner Who Gave Him HIV-AIDSGreg was romantilly datg his manager, R. A Furtive Wife & Fay Behd Work Or Gay? Two years later, he spoke publicly for the first time about beg gay and HIV-posive an terview wh Barbara Walters.

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Louganis beme one of the first high-profile athlet to e out as gay 1994, six years after beg diagnosed wh HIV. Years later he would e out as gay. And 1994, he acknowledged his sexualy at the Gay Gam New York, says Out Sports.

“ME LLAMO GREG LOUGANIS, SOY GAY Y SOY SEROPOSIVO”: LA SPIRADORA HISTORIA L MPEóN OLíMPI QUE SE ENENTó AL MUNDO

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.

CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: GREG LOUGANIS OUT AS GAY

What he ultimately beme, acrdg to many, is the greatt diver of two s later, Louganis, the 62-year-old gay man and longterm HIV survivor, is still wily nsired to be the ultimate G. Then, when he me out publicly as HIV-posive 1995 — jt a year after he me out as gay a pre-taped announcement shown at the 1994 Olympics openg ceremoni — not only forced nversatns about AIDS, but prompted people around the world to send-gus his cisn to not disclose his HIV stat at the time of the Gam (although experts have sce said there would have been no fear of transmissn through the chlorated water) his ial cisn to tt for HIV, he rells, “My thought was, if I was HIV-posive, then I would pack my bags, bee I was trag Florida, e back to Southern California and lock myself my hoe and wa to die, bee that's the way that we thought of HIV/AIDS at that time. Dpe the spl, Greg says they feel grateful to have been among the first gay upl to be able to marry legally, and he's thankg those who supported the uple over the years.

It's the first divorce for Greg, who's also famo for his work post his divg reer -- he's wrten books, acted movi and is a well-known activist for gay rights and HIV awarens. Soy gay y soy seroposivo”.

Y entonc se dan cuenta que práctimente no tán preparados para vivir una vida normal” historia Louganis tiene todos los gredient portista que empieza masiado pronto y se nvierte enseguida en una trella mundial (problemas faiar, aso lar, tempranos vaneos n stancias todo tipo, tentos suicid y reprentante extorsnador) n un añadido: el ser homosexual en unos tiempos en los que la homofobia mpaba a s anchas en el mundo l porte. Al ser percibido o gay, Greg se nvirtió en el blan hostilidad abierta por parte otros saltador. Una las sas que él temía cuando cidió renocer que era gay y que tenía SIDA era que s fans le dieran la palda.

25 YEARS OF GAY ISSU ON THE OPRAH SHOW

D la muerte l saltador Sergei Chalibashvili la que Louganis se stió directamente culpable a la suputa ayuda a Sergei Nemtsanov para que sertara, pasando por la sencia patrocador por los mor su homosexualidadS embargo, su streza en el salto era nttable. Probablemente, el creciente clima homofobia satado a raíz las primeras oleadas SIDA sansejaba hacer públi la enfermedad. Es en 1995, n la salida Breakg the Surface, cuando Louganis le dice al mundo “Me llamo Greg Louganis, soy gay y soy seroposivo”.

He me out publicly as gay at the Gay Gam 1994, but was out to those around him om an early was the 'g out to myself' procs like for you? I me out at the Gay Gam 1994, welg the athlet and sayg, 'It's great to be out and proud.

My thought before I me out to my mom was, 'Oh my God, if my parents knew that I was gay, then the earth is gog to open up and swallow me whole. Beg a gay man wh HIV, at that time there was still a lot of stigma surroundg HIV. A lot of the attu the untry and the world was, 'It's killg the right people -- gay men, IV dg ers and prostut.

3 OUT GAY HIV+ ATHLET SHARE THEIR STORI

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. Now as an LGBTQ activist, Louganis looks back on the 80s and shar how he was treated as a gay profsnal athlete and Olympic in. Today, a look back at that day 1994 that -founr Jim Buzski scribed as the first time Olympian Greg Louganis publicly acknowledged he is gay.

Diver Greg Louganis out publicly at Gay Gam IV. “Wele to the Gay Gam, ’s great to be out and proud. ” Wh those words, gold medal Olympic diver Greg Louganis livered a msage to the Openg Ceremoni of Gay Gam IV New York.