New Zealand’s first Olympic diver 37 years is out and proudly gay - Outsports

Contents:

• ATHLET WHO ARE GAY
• WHO IS KEEPG GAY ATHLET THE CLOSET?
• NEW ZEALAND’S FIRST OLYMPIC DIVER 37 YEARS IS OUT AND PROUDLY GAY
• TOP 10 ATHLET WHO ARE RUMORED TO BE GAY

ATHLET WHO ARE GAY

In today’s world, LGBT has gaed acceptance of homosexualy, although rejectn still do prevail ral areas.

Also, they are the on who have ma a notable announcement to openly lbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, and transgenr sportspeople. However, the duo separated 2009, and later the 2012-13 season, Colls openly announced himself as gay. Not to mentn, Amaechi is also one of the world’s most high-profile gay athlet om the LGBTQ muny.

Likewise, he is also a trampolist and, equally important, the first openly gay athlete to w an Olympic gold medal. “I don’t see sexualy as fluencg my beliefs or opns or perceptns of anybody, whether they’re gay, straight, bi, trans, experimental, I don’t re.

WHO IS KEEPG GAY ATHLET THE CLOSET?

On Augt 15, 2013, Fred Rosser openly me out as gay, and he was the first profsnal wrtler to do so. Kenworthy is a Brish-Amerin etyle skier and also the first actn-sports star to e out as gay. Furthermore, he has openly e out as gay, and th, he is the first high-profile Atralian sportsperson and the first gby footballer the world to be such.

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

Michael Sam is a profsnal football player and the first-ever gay player to be drafted to the NFL. He opened up about his sexualy as gay back a 2014 televisn terview, one more for LGBTQ athlet. So I’ve never had an official g-out, or somethg where I felt I had to announce that I was gay.

Rogers is a former profsnal soccer player and the first openly gay man to pete a top North Amerin profsnal sports league. Consequently, Robbie me out as gay back 2013, and 2016, he married his longtime boyiend, televisn wrer-producer Greg Berlanti. The Phenomenon has also been a part of the first-class ducte the Natnal Gay and Lbian Sports Hall of Fame.

Thanks to the proment athlet who are gay, the sports world is beg more and more acceptg of homosexual players. Football star Michael Sam ma headl 2014 when he beme the first openly gay athlete to be drafted to the NFL. His announcement provoked mixed reactns om his fellow players and the you surprised that so many profsnal athlet are gay?

TOP 10 ATHLET WHO ARE RUMORED TO BE GAY

Share your thoughts the ments Wikimedia Commons / CC-BYOlympic soccer player Megan Rapoe me out as gay 2012.

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He married his partner Johnny Chaillo 63Natnaly: Uned Stat of AmeriBirthplace: El Cajon, California, Uned Stat of AmeriWNBA player Sheryl Swoop announced that she was gay 2005. " In 2011, she revealed that she was currently datg a man and believed that beg gay was a choice. Age: 52Natnaly: Uned Stat of AmeriBirthplace: Brownfield, Texas, Uned Stat of AmeriTeams: Hoton Comets, Uned Stat women's natnal basketball team, Texas Tech Lady Rairs basketballNBA player Jason Colls me out as gay an terview wh Sports Illtrated magaze 2013.

His announcement provoked mixed reactns om his fellow players and the 44Natnaly: Uned Stat of AmeriBirthplace: Northridge, Los Angel, CaliforniaTeams: Boston Celtics, Atlanta Hawks, Washgton Wizards, Memphis Grizzli, Brooklyn NetsAmerin soccer player Abby Wambach is openly gay. Heath Thorpe, a gay athlete who is one of the bt gymnasts Atralia, has been left off of the untry’s team head to the World Gymnastics Champnships.

The number doubl the 40 openly gay, lbian and bisexual women who peted of the women are om North and South Ameri, Europe, Atralia and New Zealand, Outsports reported.

Meanwhile, the 2022 Men’s World Cup was set to be hosted Qatar, where homosexualy is illegal and punishable by up to three years prison. The associatn’s cisn prompted some fans and athlet — cludg the first openly gay major league soccer player — to speak out.

Not only don’t they have our backs, our liv don’t matter, ” Robbie Rogers, one of the first openly gay major league soccer players, said a 2015 opn article for USA Today after FIFA announced the untri that would host the upg tournaments. Ma Margraf, a bisexual gymnast, said she heard an anti-gay slur at BYU for the first time the summer of 2021, when she was a newly enrolled hman at the Mormon school Provo, Utah, and  a r wh two BYU baseball drove past a church where people were wavg the pri flag and holdg posters support of gay rights, acrdg to Margraf, who said the scene prompted one of the baseball players to act. ’ ”Margraf, now a 19-year-old sophomore who had e out as bisexual earlier that year, said at least one of the baseball players also ed the N-word.

BYU said s vtigatn unvered no evince rroboratg the allegatns, but about five weeks later, members of the Universy of Southern California women's soccer team ma siar than two weeks after the volleyball match, BYU stunts were among protters who yelled homophobic slurs at LGBTQ stunts durg an off-mp gatherg, acrdg to an Associated Prs report and other media outlets. “BYU is a place where any sort of margalizatn jt gets exacerbated, ’’ said Charlie Siraga, a gay volleyball player who played at BYU om 2017 to 2019. Siraga, who after his sophomore year transferred to the Universy of California, San Diego, and has graduated, also told USA TODAY Sports, "So much of what occurs (at BYU) is jt like vert homophobia or racism.

In addn to Margraf, three gay former BYU athlet spoke to USA TODAY her hman year, Margraf said, she had "full fah'' the athletic partment was tryg to foster change when held trag that addrsed cln and diversy.