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
- 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
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.
GREG LOUGANIS’S MASSIVE NET WORTH & GAY LOVE WH HBAND | DETAILED
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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. ” Wh those words, gold medal Olympic diver Greg Louganis livered a msage to the Openg Ceremoni of Gay Gam IV New York.
“ME LLAMO GREG LOUGANIS, SOY GAY Y SOY SEROPOSIVO”: LA SPIRADORA HISTORIA L MPEóN OLíMPI QUE SE ENENTó AL MUNDO
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.
Louganis is healthy spe beg HIV-posive, yet is ncerned that younger gay men see the disease as somethg easily treatable:. "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. Louganis beme one of the first high-profile athlet to e out as gay 1994, six years after beg diagnosed wh HIV.