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

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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.

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CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: GREG LOUGANIS OUT AS GAY

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. 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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”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. 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.

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” Wh those words, gold medal Olympic diver Greg Louganis livered a msage to the Openg Ceremoni of Gay Gam IV New York. While might have been Louganis’ official public g out, his beg gay was long mored the sports world.

It did not make his statement at the Gay Gam any ls powerful. That shows guts, termatn and toughns, all quali that the stereotyp say gay men uld not have athletics.

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