Gay diver Matthew Mcham gets engaged to boyiend Le Rutherford - Outsports

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• DEPRSN, ALHOL AND CRYSTAL METH: GAY ATRALIAN OLYMPIC GREAT OPENS UP ON CREDIBLE JOURNEY
• 5 TIM OPENLY GAY DIVER MATTHEW MCHAM SLAYED, AND OUT OF HIS SPEEDOS
• NEW ZEALAND’S FIRST OLYMPIC DIVER 37 YEARS IS OUT AND PROUDLY GAY

DEPRSN, ALHOL AND CRYSTAL METH: GAY ATRALIAN OLYMPIC GREAT OPENS UP ON CREDIBLE JOURNEY

Mcham 2008 me out as gay the lead-up to the Beijg Olympics, before beg the first openly gay man to w dividual Olympic gold wh a stunng, rerd-settg victory on the penultimate day of the was a highlight of an credible reer that saw Mcham battle mental health issu, dg and alhol addictn, and self 32, Mcham is happily married and has been clean for five years.

He said, “I was so sred of that I would actually tie a bber band around my wrist and every time I had a gay thought I would snap , to try and associate pa and sufferg wh the gay thought. To try and tra myself out of beg gay.

Picture: SuppliedSource: Supplied“There have been other Olympic gold medallists sce, and my Olympic rerd will be broken one day, but no-one will ever be able to take away the fact I was the first openly gay male Olympic champn, ” he said. Atralian diver Matthew Mcham will forever be celebrated as the first out gay Olympic gold medalist, but the now-retired athlete jt add another big “first” to his long list of acplishments.

5 TIM OPENLY GAY DIVER MATTHEW MCHAM SLAYED, AND OUT OF HIS SPEEDOS

He out publicly as gay, then stuns Beijg wh a perfect dive.

It also ma him the first out gay Olympic gold medalist.

NEW ZEALAND’S FIRST OLYMPIC DIVER 37 YEARS IS OUT AND PROUDLY GAY

It was wonrful to see him such fe form, and while he n’t have been thrilled to lose his signature 10 m platform event to a then-closeted Tom Daley, Mcham’s succs as an openly gay diver no doubt set the stage for Daley and many more gay athlet to e out.

Soon after the Gam he beme addicted to crystal meth, which remas a rampant issue the gay muny. I’ve never felt the need to explicly tell people ‘I’m gay. There’s [Brish diver] Tom Daley who is a multi-Olympic medalist, you have [Atralian diver] Matthew Mcham who won gold Beijg [and was the first openly gay athlete to w Olympic gold].

Matthew Mcham — the 31-year-old, gay Atralian Olympic diver — announced his engagement to his 30-year-old boyiend Le Rutherford via Instagram.

Durg s Olympic TV verage, NBC didn’t mentn that he was one of the few openly gay Olympic athlet, a cisn later disgenuoly fend. He also served as grand marshal of Atralia’s Gay Mardi Gras Para that same year.

Out gay diver Tom Daley and his divg partner won silver the same event. Mcham, who also beme the first ever out gay Olympic champn, was ducted Saturday Fort Lrdale, Fla. Most of all, Mcham said he’s proud to be the first ever out gay Olympic medalist.

He publicly me out as gay May 2008 and peted the Olympics wh his boyiend the stands. Matthew Mcham, the Atralian diver who won an Olympic gold medal 2008 as an openly gay athlete, has announced his retirement om divg.

He me out publicly May 2008 and peted the 2008 Beijg Olympics as an openly gay man wh his partner Lachlan cheerg him the stands. The Atralian diver Matthew Mcham, a iend of Daley, was the first openly gay person to w an Olympic gold medal.

(Kathryn, UK)He’s been a massive source of spiratn – he was the first openly gay man to w an Olympic gold medal.

After I me out, I didn’t go to Rsia [which has homophobic laws] to pete, bee I was worried, and then [for the next petn there] I was like: “You know what? German nner Otto Peltzer, who peted the 1928 and 1932 Olympics, is arrted by the Nazi regime for homosexualy. Tom Wadll, the man who would lnch the Gay Gam 1982, pet the thlon at the Mexi Cy Olympics, where he sixth.