Ian Thorpe: I'm gay, says former Atralian Olympic swimmer - BBC Sport

Contents:

• IAN THORPE OUT AS GAY PARKSON TERVIEW
• ATRALIAN SWIMMER IAN THORPE COM OUT AS GAY
• I 'KNEW' IAN THORPE WAS GAY BACK 2004
• IAN THORPE ANNOUNC HE IS GAY
• IAN THORPE WIFE, PARTNER, RELATNSHIP, GAY, NET WORTH, HEIGHT & INSTAGRAM
• IAN THORPE, LE G-OUT : ''JE LE DIS HT ET FORT, JE SUIS GAY''
• ATRALIAN OLYMPIC IN IAN THORPE REVEALS WHAT PROMPTED HIM TO E OUT AS GAY 2014
• IAN THORPE SAYS HE ‘STGGLED’ TO E OUT AS GAY, PARTICULARLY TO HIS MUM AND DAD
• IAN THORPE REVEALS HE IS GAY, SCRIB STGGLE WH PRSN TELL-ALL TERVIEW WH SIR MICHAEL PARKSON
• OPNYOU ALREADY KNEW THORPE WAS GAY? NO, YOU DIDN'T
• IAN THORPE'S MASSIVE ADMISSN ABOUT CISN TO E OUT AS GAY
• IAN THORPE: I'M GAY, SAYS FORMER ATRALIAN OLYMPIC SWIMMER
• IAN THORPE REVEALS HE 'DIDN'T KNOW IF ATRALIA WANTED S CHAMPN TO BE GAY'
• IAN THORPE REVEALS HE IS GAY
• IAN THORPE OUT AS GAY

IAN THORPE OUT AS GAY PARKSON TERVIEW

Thorpe me out as gay a July 2014 televised terview wh Brish talk show host Michael Parkson, after years of publicly nyg his homosexualy. He said, “I’m announcg my homosexualy to the world… I hope this mak simpler for others today, and feels better to get out even if you’ve been holdg for years.

Thorpe’s sexual orientatn and some obstacl due to his homosexualy petive swimmg were discsed a qutn-and-answer format terview. After years of nial, swimmg champn Ian Thorpe has revealed he is gay an exclive terview wh Sir Michael Parkson. "The terview, which Parkson has scribed as one of the bt he has nducted, also tails the swimmer's battle wh prsn, dgs and alhol, which ed him to check to a rehabilatn un earlier this revelatns are dramatic particularly bee Thorpe has always vehemently nied mours of his homosexualy.

ATRALIAN SWIMMER IAN THORPE COM OUT AS GAY

In his own tobgraphy This Is Me, published 2012, the swimmer said that he found qutns about his sexualy hurtful, wrg: "For the rerd, I am not gay and all my sexual experienc have been straight. "Parkson said Thorpe's cisn that no qutn was off lims was brave and says he exam the good tim and the bad of the Atralian swimmg his tobgraphy published 2012, Thorpe said 'for the rerd, I am not gay'.

I 'KNEW' IAN THORPE WAS GAY BACK 2004

Snaps for Thorpie, " wrote Lady Cathere @KadyL, while Anthony Venn-Brown @gayambassador tweeted: "Life's much brighter on this si of the closet @IanThorpe. 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’m fortable sayg I’m a gay man, ” he told Brish terviewer Michael Parkson on Atralia’s Channel Ten, the ABC reports. ” Thorpe, whose swimmg succs earned him the nickname “the Thorpedo, ” had earlier nied beg gay his 2012 tobgraphy.

IAN THORPE ANNOUNC 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.

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. "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.

" 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....

IAN THORPE WIFE, PARTNER, RELATNSHIP, GAY, NET WORTH, HEIGHT & INSTAGRAM

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.

IAN THORPE, LE G-OUT : ''JE LE DIS HT ET FORT, JE SUIS 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.

NatnalEdutnThis was published 9 years agoWhen champn swimmer Ian Thorpe announced he was gay, after many years of speculatn, once aga highlighted the difficulti high-profile Atralians face when g out.

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

He is mentatg poolsi at the Glasgow Commonwealth Thorpe announc he is gay to veteran terviewer, and longtime iend, Michael Parkson.

In a recent, much-publicised terview wh English broadster Michael Parkson, Ian Thorpe, after years of nial, announced he was gay. The swimmer said he was "ashamed" he had lacked the urage to "e out" sooner but had feared the reactn: "I didn't know if Atralia wanted s champn to be gay, " he said. Olympic gold medallist and Atralian diver Matthew Mcham, who announced he was gay before the 2008 Olympics, after many years of nial, said sponsorship mments would have weighed heavily on the swimmer bee of the associated stigma and stereotypg.

He acknowledged Thorpe's difficulty but weled his admissn sayg: "We need high profile gay athlet to prove the stereotype wrong" there a personal st? Some cricise Ian Thorpe for lyg so publicly about his sexualy for so long, particularly his 2012 tobgraphy, This Is Me, which he stated: "For the rerd, I am not gay and all my sexual experienc have been straight". Others are disappoted that he felt able to wre so hontly about his prsn, alhol abe and suicidal thoughts while beg so dishont about his homosexualy.

IAN THORPE SAYS HE ‘STGGLED’ TO E OUT AS GAY, PARTICULARLY TO HIS MUM AND DAD

Furthermore, some argue that the reported guidance of Thorpe's mrs, keen to propagate the "heterosexual myth" and display the swimmer the media as a "ladi’ man", reveals a further obstacle: an unrlyg societal prejudice that perhaps rerced his beg gay still a problem Atralia?

IAN THORPE REVEALS HE IS GAY, SCRIB STGGLE WH PRSN TELL-ALL TERVIEW WH SIR MICHAEL PARKSON

This suggted to many that homosexualy, particularly among athlet, remas a ntroversial issue some sectns of society. Andrew Purchas, founr of the Sydney Convicts gby club, says this "sual associatn" go "to the re of the problem" Atralia and ntu to prevent gay athlet om openly beg themselv.

OPNYOU ALREADY KNEW THORPE WAS GAY? NO, YOU DIDN'T

While assertg that his sexualy is nobody's bs but his own, many have neverthels acknowledged that his admissn will help others e to terms wh their sexual inty and will assist brgg closer as a natn to the day when the issue no longer warrants such Headl"Ian Thorpe owed to himself to be hont, but also to the public" The Sydney Morng Herald, July 14"Who r if Ian Thorpe is gay?

15-year-old closeted me, that's who" The Age, July 13"Brave Atralian Olympic Gam champn Ian Thorpe tells: I'm gay" The Sunday Telegraph, July 13"A gay father's open letter to Ian Thorpe" Huffgton Post, July 21 What The Age says"There is no pot pretendg that Atralia do not have a long way to go properly nontg prejudice agast homosexuals. "Ian Thorpe, ABC News, July 14"From my own experience beg gay and playg sport, homophobic language was a nstant remr that I wouldn't be accepted if I was to e out.

”William Brougham, ABC's Q&A, July 14Web LksQ&A Discsn - July 14 Marriage Equaly ViewDo high-profile gay people have a rponsibily to "e out"? Channg was Thorpe’s first public same-sex romance after g out as gay an terview wh Michael Parkson followg years of speculatn.

IAN THORPE'S MASSIVE ADMISSN ABOUT CISN TO E OUT AS GAY

After years of public nial, Ian Thorpe me out as gay July 2014 durg a televised terview wh Michael Parkson. After years of dodgg this qutn om the prs, Ian cid he was fally fortable admtg his homosexualy notg that “feels easier to get out”.

IAN THORPE: I'M GAY, SAYS FORMER ATRALIAN OLYMPIC SWIMMER

El nadador Ian Thorpe, leyenda l mundo natación n c títulos mpeón olímpi y 11 mpeón l mundo, reveló su homosexualidad en una entrevista transmida el domgo por la noche por el nal televisión Channel Ten Atralia. Matthew Mcham, también mpeón olímpi en Pekín y que reveló su homosexualidad en 2008, dijo que podía "entenr plenamente lo difícil que para (Thorpe) hacerlo. Un año spués, enzó el tratamiento n antiprivos e clo fue hospalizado tr m por una fección grave en el una tobgrafía publida en 2012, Este soy yo, negó los mor sobre su homosexualidad.

IAN THORPE REVEALS HE 'DIDN'T KNOW IF ATRALIA WANTED S CHAMPN TO BE GAY'

Mais, après s anné mrs, qutns et dénégatns, la légen stralienne la natatn vient révéler publiquement, lors d'une terview télévisée, son homosexualé. Je suis allé dans une éle garçons, alors quand on vo acca d'être gay, la première réponse éta non, et ensue vo vo prépariez à vo battre. " En 2012, dans son tobgraphie, Thorpe écriva noir sur blanc: "Je ne suis pas gay et tout m expérienc sexuell ont été hétéro.

Olympic swimmg champn Ian Thorpe explaed on the Atralian show This is your Life, why he cid to e as gay durg an terview wh Sir Michael Parkson back 2014Ian Thorpe Champn swimmer Ian Thorpe explaed his reasons behd g out as gay back 2014.

IAN THORPE REVEALS HE IS GAY

“I had spent some time wh [Sir Michael Parkson] before the terview and told him, ‘you should ask me if I'm gay bee I'm gog to tell you I am’.

IAN THORPE OUT AS GAY

OLYMPIAN Ian Thorpe has revealed that he was tnted about his sexualy when he was a teenager which led him to be too ightened to e out of the closet, fearful of the reactn of his nservative five tim gold medal wng swimmer ma the ments at a fom on Tuday night where he shared a stage wh Jim Obergfell whose urt se led to the US legalisg gay marriage. “When I was about 16 I was acced of beg gay and bee was that tone, I always thought of as a negative, of not beg equal, ” he said at the Atralians 4 Equaly event held at Twter’s Sydney offic. “It was overwhelmg and I was so pleased I would be accepted by my own fay, ” Thorpe he’d e out to his fay, revealg he was gay to Atralia was a cch, he said.