Atralian Olympian Kowalski Com Out as Gay

Contents:

• ATRALIAN SWIMMER IAN THORPE COM OUT AS GAY
• I 'KNEW' IAN THORPE WAS GAY BACK 2004
• ATRALIAN OLYMPIAN KOWALSKI COM OUT AS GAY
• THE GAY VERSN OF SI'S SWIMSU ISSUE
• GAY SWIMMER CATALYST FOR EXCG NEW ATRALIAN DRAMA – BARRACUDA
• FAMEWATCHER SEARCH PRIMARY MENU SKIP TO NTENT HOMECELEBRY HAIR TRANSPLANTCELEBRY PLASTIC SURGERYCELEBRY LEATHER JACKETBODY SHAPER SEARCH FOR: GAY MALE ATHLET, HOT MALE SWIMMERS, SWIMWEAR FOR MENGAY SWIMMERS LIST: OLYMPIANS AND COLLEGE STARS
• IAN THORPE OUT AS GAY PARKSON TERVIEW
• OLYMPIC SWIMMER MARK THORMEYER PERFORMED AT HIS PEAK AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF OPENLY GAY OLYMPIANS

ATRALIAN SWIMMER IAN THORPE COM OUT AS GAY

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. 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. 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.

I 'KNEW' IAN THORPE WAS GAY BACK 2004

“Competg at the Olympics as an openly gay athlete is pretty amazg, ” Canadian swimmer Mark Thormeyer told Outsports.

ATRALIAN OLYMPIAN KOWALSKI COM OUT AS GAY

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THE GAY VERSN OF SI'S SWIMSU ISSUE

I first "knew" that Ian Thorpe was gay back 2004 at a pool Long Beach, Calif. 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 .

GAY SWIMMER CATALYST FOR EXCG NEW ATRALIAN DRAMA – BARRACUDA

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.

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" 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.

IAN THORPE OUT AS GAY PARKSON TERVIEW

" 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....

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

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.

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. Daniel Kowalski, who is an Atralian swimmg hero, has announced that he is gay. Although Kowalski is only the third ele Atralian athlete to e out publilly as a homosexual, Atralia is a relatively gay-iendly untry.

They have several gay policians, bet members, and other proment people. Although Kowalski’s untrymen Ian Roberts, a gby player, and Matthew Mcham (the lone non-Che divg gold medalist at the 2008 Olympics, and the only openly-gay male athlete Beijg) have both e out as gay, Kowalski turned to Welsh gby player Garth Thomas for spiratn.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF OPENLY GAY OLYMPIANS

This announcement on the heels of a recent mpaign by AFL (the top-level Atralian Rul Football League) agast homophobia Atralia.