There are a rerd 11 openly gay male Olympians R. None is an Amerin. - Outsports

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• IS TOM DALEY GAY? HE'S A DIVER, SO HE MT BE
• THERE ARE A RERD 11 OPENLY GAY MALE OLYMPIANS R. NONE IS AN AMERIN.
• THIS OLYMPIC DIVER DON’T INTIFY AS ‘GAY’ OR ‘STRAIGHT,’ BUT ‘HUMAN’
• WATCH: THE BT FROM 6 OLYMPIC GAY DIVERS
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• Q: WHY DO GAY MEN LOVE THE OLYMPICS? A: ISN’T IT OBV?
• ATHLET WHO ARE GAY
• DIVG HAS A NEW GAY PUP BOY, ANTON DOWN-JENKS FIRST KIWI OLYMPIC DIVER ALMOST 40 YEARS
• TOM DALEY IS DAMN PROUD TO BE AN OPENLY GAY OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST
• 'I FEEL VERY EMPOWERED': DIVER TOM DALEY DISCS BEG OPENLY GAY AFTER WNG GOLD
• ARE THERE ANY GAY F1 DRIVERS?
• U.S. DIVER ADOPTED OM CAMBODIA AND RAISED BY A GAY DAD HOP TO SPIRE OTHERS

IS TOM DALEY GAY? HE'S A DIVER, SO HE MT BE

Here's a fact: In the entire history of the Olympics, there has never been an openly gay male gymnast. We've had a gay thlete, nner, hurdler and high jumper, among others. Yet gymnastics, along wh divg, has been wily perceived as a "gay" sport, while the same is not said for track and field.

Hence, the emails I have gotten askg whether Brish diver Tom Daley is gay (Not that I know of). Matthew Mcham om Atralia is the only openly gay diver London.

Gay men do like watchg gymnastics and divg, for obv reasons. And divg at least, we have had petors who were gay while petg or me out after. Both sports are also perceived as beg more tolerant of gay participants.

THERE ARE A RERD 11 OPENLY GAY MALE OLYMPIANS R. NONE IS AN AMERIN.

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" that foc almost exclively on men's divg, wh Tom Daley ont and stereotyp are by their nature oversimplified, hence the ia that divers and gymnasts are gay, while weightlifters and water polo players are not. Nothg gay about football.

Yet, the late folklorist Alan Duns wrote a famo paper the 1970s that argued that football "providg as do a socially sanctned amework for male body ntact … is a form of homosexual behavr.

THIS OLYMPIC DIVER DON’T INTIFY AS ‘GAY’ OR ‘STRAIGHT,’ BUT ‘HUMAN’

The stigma of llg somethg gay has lost some of s stg and even we n get on the act as this SB Natn, Cyd and I did attt to.

Jt be aware that gay athlet are every sport, so never assume.

WATCH: THE BT FROM 6 OLYMPIC GAY DIVERS

When the Olympics start this weekend R Janeiro, there will be a rerd 41 publicly out gay, lbian and bisexual athlet.

Includ this total are a rerd 11 gay male athlet. Diver Patrick Jefey was openly gay as a diver the 1996 Olympics. Barthel is divg for Germany and do not classify himself as gay or straight but simply intifi as “human.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

He was adopted om Cambodia at 18 months, and his adoptive father, Jerry, is gay. In addn, Wdle has ntributed to the It Gets Better mpaign and was mentored om an early age by gay divg legend Greg Louganis—to the pot where he was nicknamed “The Ltle Louganis. He’s one of the bt and most important stori of the Tokyo Gam after wng his first gold medal Men’s Synchro wh divg partner Matty Lee and spirg lns by clarg, “I feel credibly proud to say I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn.

Gay sounds too hard, ” he replied. But I am not homosexual.

We asked: Would you be fortable wh sayg, “Timo Barthel isn’t gay or straight or any other label.

Q: WHY DO GAY MEN LOVE THE OLYMPICS? A: ISN’T IT OBV?

Whe, black, orange, thick, th, gay.........!!! Five gay divers peted the Olympics before Bra's Tom Daley.

While Seoul, Castillo wnsed gay Olympic legend Greg Louganis htg his head durg a dive. Matthew Helm was actually the untry's first diver to pete while openly gay, and he won the silver medal for this dive 2004 for the 10m platform. The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag.

(Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple. They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando.

ATHLET WHO ARE GAY

Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients.

DIVG HAS A NEW GAY PUP BOY, ANTON DOWN-JENKS FIRST KIWI OLYMPIC DIVER ALMOST 40 YEARS

In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office.

He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group. He owned gay newspapers Hoton, Atlanta, New York and Washgton.

TOM DALEY IS DAMN PROUD TO BE AN OPENLY GAY OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST

“I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic.

To the activist, feels like a step backward after a lifetime of fightg for gay pack the seats at the Board of Zong Appeals hearg hosted at Grace Epispal Church. “I have que a few gay iends, clients and a fay member, and I have patronized a gay-owned rtrant for years, ” he whether the Washers are tryg to remake The Plas to their image of Ameri — Whe, nservative, Christian — Melissa said, “I n see where you’re g om. 13, 2016RIO DE JANEIRO — Sce before the 2000 Summer Olympics Sydney, has been verg gay issu sports.

“Gay men love the Olympics, ” Cyd Zeigler, a founr of Outsports, said an did not take a rerd number of publicly out athlet petg at the R Gam to draw the gay muny’s attentn. It did not take a shirtls and lubed flag-bearer om Tonga, or photographs of gymnasts on the beach, or divers takg post-plunge thgs only helped draw tert om dienc, both gay and straight. But gay men were already a reliable mographic, as monstrated across the web, om Outsports to other s targeted to gays that are now filled largely wh photos and posts about the Olympics.

'I FEEL VERY EMPOWERED': DIVER TOM DALEY DISCS BEG OPENLY GAY AFTER WNG GOLD

Rebec Blackwell/Associated PrsThe qutn is why gay men love the Olympics. Theori are as varied as the gay muny self. Bce Hay, a 1984 gold medalist swimmg who is gay, utned agast stereotyp.

“Gay people like sports as much as any other group of people, ” said Mr. ”But the Olympics have some unique quali that attract gay men, several others said.

ARE THERE ANY GAY F1 DRIVERS?

Many closeted gays participated dividual sports to avoid the disfort of team-sport culture, and the Olympics is the biggt showse of dividual sports. Hay, too, said that beg gay was a reason he gravated toward swimmg as a, many Olympic sports posss an outsir’s sensibily that gay men n appreciate. “The mastream media is fally tchg up to the gays their public admiratn of athlet’ bodi, male and female, ” said Jim Buzski, the other Outsports founr.

Eleven of them, none om the Uned Stat, are popular Brish diver Tom Daley, a two-time medalist, is openly gay and a b of an in, and his boyiend is a b of a celebry, too.

U.S. DIVER ADOPTED OM CAMBODIA AND RAISED BY A GAY DAD HOP TO SPIRE OTHERS

“There are que a few out gay athlet petg. There were gay people petg, but they weren’t out or wrten about.

Slowly, there’s startg to be a realizatn that gays are terted sports, that they’re actually good at sports and they n excel and achieve like anyone else.

“For some people, the Olympics is the greatt soft porn ever, ” said Eric Marc, an expert on gay history and -wrer of the tobgraphy of the Olympic champn diver Greg Louganis, who me out after retirg. “What’s changed is that the mastream prs is terted the thgs, that gay people are fortable talkg about them, that is now O. Even most lbian s do not have the same type of photocentric posts that those terg to gay men have.