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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
Olympic divg legend Greg Louganis [he/him], 61, won four gold medals across back-to-back Olympic Gam, 1984 and 1988. He me out publicly as gay at the Gay Gam 1994. * is greg louganis gay *
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?
“ME LLAMO GREG LOUGANIS, SOY GAY Y SOY SEROPOSIVO”: LA SPIRADORA HISTORIA L MPEóN OLíMPI QUE SE ENENTó AL MUNDO
Louganis, arguably the untry's most famo gay athlete, slams 'Don't Say Gay' law and says genr inty should be discsed Florida classrooms. * is greg louganis gay *
Two years later, he spoke publicly for the first time about beg gay and HIV-posive an terview wh Barbara Walters. Proud Gay: Proud Gay Garrett Watts All Settled At Age 29!
"Marriage among all upl is more often than not challengg, and, particularly durg #primonth, 's important that we say how grateful we were to be among the first gay upl to have the privilege to marry legally, and face the challeng so many do, " he wrote a statement.
CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: GREG LOUGANIS OUT AS GAY
The openly gay gold-medal wner said the box "means so much more to me than would have then bee I feel like I'm beg embraced as a whole person, not jt for my athletic achievements." * is greg louganis gay *
Louganis beme one of the first high-profile athlet to e out as gay 1994, six years after beg diagnosed wh HIV.
25 YEARS OF GAY ISSU ON THE OPRAH SHOW
Years later he would e out as gay. And 1994, he acknowledged his sexualy at the Gay Gam New York, says Out Sports.
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.
3 OUT GAY HIV+ ATHLET SHARE THEIR STORI
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.