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David Thibo is g his posn as a swim ach who is openly gay to effect change.

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FROM LLEGE SWIMMER TO HIGH SCHOOL ACH, GAY ATHLETE STAYED TE TO HIMSELF

Mch Dalton has found hard to date and make gay iends travelg so much. He hop to change that At. * gay swim coach *

When he asked for the drk, one of the people nearby asked him if he was gay.

BEG OUT: GAY SWIM ACH DAVID THIBO PROVIS A SAFE SPACE THE POOL

‘The most challengg part of beg gay has actually been enuragg myself to be more open wh others,’ MacJilton Lewis wr. * gay swim coach *

Apparently orrg beer is straight and orrg hard cir is gay. Tth was, Dalton was gay — this person jt didn’t know yet and was tryg to make an “nocent” crack.

TWO GAY SWIMMERS ARE BT IENDS AND EACH OTHER’S ROCK

On the latt episo of the Five Rgs To Rule Them All podst, Dalton talks about life and beg gay and around ele levels of swimmg. Not surprisg, wh all of the travel and movg around, he’s found hard to make gay iends and fd a boyiend. From llege swimmer to high school ach, gay athlete stayed te to himself.

‘The most challengg part of beg gay has actually been enuragg myself to be more open wh others, ’ MacJilton Lewis wr. When Brish diver Tom Daley announced he was gay, ronated wh me.

THE GAY VERSN OF SI'S SWIMSU ISSUE

However, after that first nversatn wh my mom, was not as if the floodgat opened and I began tellg everyone my life that I was gay. Even though I uld sense I was a supportive environment at Cleveland State (where I attend llege and petively swam), was not until my sophomore year that I was ready to open up to one of my teammat. The most challengg part of beg gay has still been enuragg myself to be more open wh others.

I unrstand the importance of lovg myself for who I am: an athlete, a ach, a son, a brother and a iend — who happens to be gay. For Canadian swimmer David Thibo, g out as gay 2017 was not the end of his journey but the start of a new chapter. I was nvced that I uld not be a gay athlete, so I qu before I me out.

We’re two swimmers and bt iends, both llege, who happen to be gay. Before we tell you the story of how two gay swimmers helped each other e out, we want to share some background about each of . I was always good at hidg my emotns and phg my feelgs ep si, so I had no problem hidg that I was gay until high school.

FOR LLEGE SWIMMG ACH, BEG GAY NO LONGER A BIG THG AND THAT’S WHY ’S A GREAT THG

On top of everythg else I was a petive swimmer, a sport known for beg “more gay” bee my uniform was a ty piece of fabric jt large enough to ver “my stuff” and I went to a private, Catholic high school. I was aaid of tellg my teammat that I was gay bee I feared they would look at me differently or my guy iends would distance themselv. The hard part was the lonely, dark place I put myself when faced wh the realy that people knew I was gay.

SWIMMG MA ME GAY

I’ve had such hard time g to terms wh my sexualy bee I was sred that my fay would hate me bee homosexualy is a s.

At my school, swimmg was nsired a “gay” sport bee of our ltle Speedos. Even though I wanted to jt be “normal, ” that was not the ma reason I uldn’t wrap my head around wh beg gay. Josh are you gay?

Fast forward to fay weekend, my sophomore year at the Universy of Arizona 2015, when I fally felt fortable wh my fay knowg. Josh opened the text and all said was, “I’m gay, Josh. In his sophomore year of llege, Josh fell to a ep prsn.

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