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- IAN THORPE OUT AS GAY PARKSON TERVIEW
- IAN THORPE ANNOUNC HE IS GAY
- ATRALIAN SWIMMER IAN THORPE COM OUT AS GAY
IAN THORPE OUT AS GAY PARKSON TERVIEW
* is ian thorpe gay *
Gay. Thorpe me out as gay a July 2014 televised terview wh Brish talk show host Michael Parkson, after years of publicly nyg his homosexualy. Acrdg to him, “I’m at ease intifyg as a gay man.
You n grow up, be ntent your sk, and be gay. 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. In addn, he also addrsed the gay accatns his book.
IAN THORPE ANNOUNC HE IS GAY
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.
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. I was acced of beg gay before I knew who I was. "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'.
" tweeted @GayTimMag. Snaps for Thorpie, " wrote Lady Cathere @KadyL, while Anthony Venn-Brown @gayambassador tweeted: "Life's much brighter on this si of the closet @IanThorpe. 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 SWIMMER IAN THORPE COM OUT AS GAY
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.
At the time, he rpond that he was not gay and had nsistently mataed this stance until now. 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?