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"I'm fortable sayg I'm a gay man," he revealed after years of nials

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I 'KNEW' IAN THORPE WAS GAY BACK 2004

Ian Thorpe is openly gay and maybe now he'll be happy. I had a glimpse of his suatn 10 years ago. * australian swimmer gay *

I first "knew" that Ian Thorpe was gay back 2004 at a pool Long Beach, Calif. The one exceptn was Thorpe, of whom gay mors had been swirlg sce he beme an OIympic champn at the 2000 Summer Gam Sydney.

"My prumptn was that he was gay, " Brent said, "and was like he knew that I knew and that sense he felt exposed. I had observed all this over the two days we were there and that's when I "knew" Thorpe was gay. I uld not prove a urt of law, but I knew the way we gays often know about certa people.

At the 2012 London Olympics, Thorpe admted that his terts fashn, among others, ma him see why he "ticked the box" on what a gay man is terted .

ATRALIAN SWIMMER IAN THORPE COM OUT AS GAY

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Fally, his tobgraphy two years ago, Thorpe tegorilly me out as straight, sayg, "For the rerd, I am not gay and all my sexual experienc have been straight.

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" It was all not te, of urse, as we disvered Sunday when Thorpe told Michael Parkson that he is gay. "I'm fortable sayg I'm a gay man, and I don't want young people to feel the same way I did, " he said, addg that he wished he had e out revealed earlier this year that he has checked himself to rehab for alholism and prsn. Closeted people njure up all sorts of reactns om other gay people.

" On the other hand, this ment on Outsports reflects another pot of view: "We are so supposed to five them for years of lyg bee gay = shame.... Thorpe did not risk the same level of physil abe as gay people livg other parts of the world and his sport would have easily accepted him, as his fay did.

GAY SWIMMER CATALYST FOR EXCG NEW ATRALIAN DRAMA – BARRACUDA

There's also the matter of what appears to be a quid-pro-quo between Thorpe and Channel Ten, the Atralian TV work where he revealed he was gay Sunday. Atralian swimmer and five-time Olympic gold medalist Ian Thorpe announced he was gay this weekend after years of nials, a tell-terview that aired Atralia Sunday night.

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