Olympic diver Timo Barthel isn’t ‘gay’ or ‘straight,’ but ‘human’ - Outsports

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U.S. Olympic diver Jordan Wdle was adopted om a Cambodian orphanage by gay Amerin man and now fights for LGBTQ rights.

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

Stereotyp are alive well Olympic sports, as gay qutns follow Tom Daley and other divers * divers are gay *

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.

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

Thanks to the proment athlet who are gay, the sports world is beg more and more acceptg of homosexual players. Whether the famo Olympians, ... * divers are gay *

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.

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

Gay Olympic role mols such as Atralian Matthew Mcham and England's Tom Daley have led the way for Anton Down-Jenks to bee the first diver * divers are gay *

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. It uld be that gay athlet self-select for certa sports, avoidg some seen as beg ls fans assume certa sports are gay.

”Part of the reason for the "divg is gay" stereotype are the swimsus, the tight Speedo variety that no straight Amerin du would be ught ad .

WATCH: THE BT FROM 6 OLYMPIC GAY DIVERS

There is even as Inter meme "Olympics or gay porn?

" 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.

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

Nothg gay about football.

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

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. 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.

ATHLET WHO ARE GAY

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.

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

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. 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.

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

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

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

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.

ARE THERE ANY GAY F1 DRIVERS?

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

(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.

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