Atralian Olympic in Ian Thorpe reveals what prompted him to e out as gay 2014 - Mirror Onle

Contents:

• ATRALIAN SWIMMER IAN THORPE COM OUT AS GAY
• I 'KNEW' IAN THORPE WAS GAY BACK 2004
• TOM DALEY AFTER WNG GOLD: ‘I'M GAY AND AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN'
• ASIE OLYMPIC SWIMMER IAN THORPE REVEALS HE IS GAY
• ATRALIAN OLYMPIC IN IAN THORPE REVEALS WHAT PROMPTED HIM TO E OUT AS GAY 2014
• OLYMPIC SWIMMER MARK THORMEYER PERFORMED AT HIS PEAK AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST SWIMMER IAN THORPE REVEALS HE IS GAY

ATRALIAN SWIMMER IAN THORPE COM 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. 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.

I 'KNEW' IAN THORPE WAS GAY BACK 2004

“I’m fortable sayg I’m a gay man, ” he told Brish terviewer Michael Parkson on Atralia’s Channel Ten, the ABC reports. You n grow up, you n be fortable and you n be gay. ” Thorpe, whose swimmg succs earned him the nickname “the Thorpedo, ” had earlier nied beg gay his 2012 tobgraphy.

“For the rerd, I am not gay and all my sexual experienc have been straight, ” he wrote. ” “A part of me didn’t know if Atralia wanted s champn to be gay, ” Thorpe said, The Guardian reports.

TOM DALEY AFTER WNG GOLD: ‘I'M GAY AND AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN'

At least 186 publicly out gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, queer and nonbary athlet were Tokyo for the Summer Olympic Gam, more than triple the number who participated at the 2016 R Gam. “Competg at the Olympics as an openly gay athlete is pretty amazg, ” Canadian swimmer Mark Thormeyer told Outsports. Thormeyer was not out when he peted at the 2016 R Olympics and me out publicly as gay a 2020 say for Outsports.

Elissa Alarie (Canada)#Brt Benn (Canada)#Kelly Brazier (New Zealand)Gayle Broughton (New Zealand)#Isadora Cello (Brazil) Lren Doyle (USA)#Mara Fravanti (Brazil)#Megan Jon (Bra)Alev Kelter (USA)Ghislae Landry (Canada)#Kaili Lan (Canada)#Celia Quansah (Bra)Kristen Thomas (USA)Ruby Tui (New Zealand)#Sharni Williams (Atralia)Portia Woodman (New Zealand). I first "knew" that Ian Thorpe was gay back 2004 at a pool Long Beach, Calif.

ASIE OLYMPIC SWIMMER IAN THORPE REVEALS HE IS GAY

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 . 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.

ATRALIAN OLYMPIC IN IAN THORPE REVEALS WHAT PROMPTED HIM TO E OUT AS GAY 2014

" 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.

OLYMPIC SWIMMER MARK THORMEYER PERFORMED AT HIS PEAK AFTER G OUT AS GAY

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. The victory was pecially meangful for Daley his send Olympics as an openly gay man.

OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST SWIMMER IAN THORPE REVEALS HE IS GAY

"I feel credibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn, " said Daley who was visibly emotnal.