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• 'I FEEL VERY EMPOWERED': DIVER TOM DALEY DISCS BEG OPENLY GAY AFTER WNG GOLD
• TOM DALEY ‘CREDIBLY PROUD’ TO BE A GAY MAN AND OLYMPIC CHAMPN AFTER WNG GOLD
• DIVER JORDAN WDLE MAK HIS GAY FATHER PROUD BY QUALIFYG FOR THE OLYMPICS
• HE WAS ADOPTED AND RAISED BY A GAY DAD. NOW HE'S AN OLYMPIAN AND SYMBOL FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS.
• DIVER ME OUT AS GAY TO TWO BIG TEN SCHOOLS TWO YEARS
• IS TOM DALEY GAY? HE'S A DIVER, SO HE MT BE
• USA GAY AND LESBIAN SCUBA DIVING CLUBS
• GAY DIVER ERIC BLEVS WS TWO GOLD MEDALS AT WORLD MASTERS CHAMPNSHIPS
• TOM DALEY AFTER WNG GOLD: ‘I'M GAY AND AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN'
• THE INCREDIBLE TE STORY OF TWO GAY DADS AND THEIR DIVG CHAMP SON
• TOM DALEY ‘CREDIBLY PROUD TO SAY I AM GAY AND AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN’
• DIVER TOM DALEY WS GOLD: 'I AM A GAY MAN AND ALSO AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN'
• TOM DALEY IS DAMN PROUD TO BE AN OPENLY GAY OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

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

Tom Daley and his divg partner, Matty Lee, brought home a gold medal for Team Great Bra Monday on the synchronized 10-meter platform dive, and the victory was pecially meangful for Daley his send Olympics as an openly gay me out a YouTube vio 2013 shortly after he began datg his now-hband, Dt Lance Black. "I feel credibly proud to say that I’m a gay man and also an Olympic champn, " Daley said via the Olympic News Service after wng gold.

For Daley, who is openly gay, and Lee, was a stunng w over the favored Che divers Cao Yuan and Chen Aisen and played out dramatic fashn that saw the Brs w the gold by 1. After the petn, Daley had some powerful ments on what meant to w the gold medal as an openly gay athlete. “I feel credibly proud to say I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn.

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.

TOM DALEY ‘CREDIBLY PROUD’ TO BE A GAY MAN AND OLYMPIC CHAMPN AFTER WNG GOLD

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. Between the historic achievements of Greg Louganis, Matthew Mcham and Tom Daley, gay athlet have been very good for Olympic divg. Wdle’s father, Jerry, is a gay man who adopted Jordan om a Cambodian orphanage at 18-months-old.

Jerry beme Jordan’s father after endurg numero difficulti tryg to adopt the Uned Stat as a sgle gay man, acrdg to NBC Sports’ Brandon Penny. As for lsons his dad tght him, Wdle relled a moment where he me to the fense of a gay teammate on Cyd Zeigler’s Five Rgs to Rule Them All podst:.

The 22-year-old diver, who was adopted at 18 months old om Cambodia by a sgle gay Amerin man, has spent the last 15 years preparg for this Jordan Wdle (Dylan Buell / Getty Imag)“On the 10-hour flight here, I uld not sleep, ” Wdle said. (Courty Jordan Wdle)As a transracial adoptee, Wdle said, he was bullied as a child for havg a gay father “and jt beg different general.

DIVER JORDAN WDLE MAK HIS GAY FATHER PROUD BY QUALIFYG FOR THE OLYMPICS

His sophomore year of high school was his fal season playg hockey, partially bee Carter started to realize that he’s LGBT and didn’t feel the team would accept him. He wasn’t ready to e out as gay until his hman year of llege at Wisns, but after one year, he transferred to Indiana. So, he me out as gay to two Big Ten divg teams two years.

By his hman year of llege at Wisns, Carter knew he was gay, but wasn’t until a b ri to Madison near the end of his first semter that he cid to let other people know. Carter creds that weekend and the openns of Tate’s gay teammat, cludg Jack Thorne, as key to his cisn to start g out.

“They were jt super ol about (beg gay), and was totally normal, ” Carter said. Aronson was openly gay and had talked about g Tr.

HE WAS ADOPTED AND RAISED BY A GAY DAD. NOW HE'S AN OLYMPIAN AND SYMBOL FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS.

Aronson was the first person Carter told that he’s gay. “All the gays stick together. Carter pots to Cramer, who is gay, as the person that spired him the most to be openly gay.

That night he lay on his bed Bloomgton and sent a msage to the entire Indiana men’s and women’s divg teams lettg them know he’s gay.

Carter pots to former Northwtern diver Andrew Cramer, who is gay, as the person that spired him the most to live openly. “For his really close iends and teammat, we are happy that he me to wh (that he’s gay), and that he didn’t have to lead on this different liftyle that wasn’t tly him, ” Coldren said.

DIVER ME OUT AS GAY TO TWO BIG TEN SCHOOLS TWO YEARS

I kd of hope that ’s jt an example that if you’re gay or straight or whatever that you’re allowed to do what you want. Erik Hall is a member of the Associated Prs Sports Edors and the Natnal Lbian and Gay Journalists Associatn.

Here's a fact: In the entire history of the Olympics, there has never been an openly gay male gymnast.

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

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).

USA GAY AND LESBIAN SCUBA DIVING CLUBS

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.

GAY DIVER ERIC BLEVS WS TWO GOLD MEDALS AT WORLD MASTERS CHAMPNSHIPS

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 .

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. Nothg gay about football.

TOM DALEY AFTER WNG GOLD: ‘I'M GAY AND AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN'

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.

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THE INCREDIBLE TE STORY OF TWO GAY DADS AND THEIR DIVG CHAMP SON

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TOM DALEY ‘CREDIBLY PROUD TO SAY I AM GAY AND AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN’

Gay & Lbian Scuba Travel ExpertsCall Toll-Free: 1-800-669-0310. Eric Blevs, an acplished llege diver and now llege divg ach who is openly gay, won two gold medals the 1-meter and 3-meter sprgboard at the the 18th FINA World Masters Champnships Gwangju, South Korea.

Beg an openly gay diver has been no problem ternatnal petns, Blevs said.

The victory was pecially meangful for Daley his send Olympics as an openly gay man.

DIVER TOM DALEY WS GOLD: 'I AM A GAY MAN AND ALSO AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN'

"I feel credibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn, " said Daley who was visibly emotnal. Daley's Amerin-born hband won a screenwrg Osr 2008 for “Milk, " the bgraphil film based on the life of gay rights activist and polician Harvey Milk.

This week’s stallment of the Huffgton Post Gay Voic Let Love Defe Fay seri highlights the tersectg journeys of a sgle gay man, who adopted om Cambodia 2000, his athletilly gifted son, and “Papi, ” who beme the boy’s send father. Today, all ternatnal adoptns are closed to sgle men and women, mostly to filter out LGBT people, though sgle and openly gay people are wele to adopt most regns of the Uned 48, Jerry, who served the Navy durg “don't ask, don't tell, ” always knew he wanted to be a parent and that he would pursue through adoptn. Back then, he faced rampant homophobia throughout the sports world, cludg his teammat.

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

Today, a number of divers at the junr and senr levels are openly gay, but some rema closeted. In fact, several llege divers e out to him specifilly bee they knew he had openly gay parents.

“When people ask me what is like to be straight and to have gay parents, I tell them ‘It’s great! ”Jordan’s peers do not display homophobia for the most part -- is the parents who prent the most obstacl.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

He me out publicly as gay at the Gay Gam 1994, but was out to those around him om an early was the 'g out to myself' procs like for you? I me out at the Gay Gam 1994, welg the athlet and sayg, 'It's great to be out and proud. My thought before I me out to my mom was, 'Oh my God, if my parents knew that I was gay, then the earth is gog to open up and swallow me whole.