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Contents:

• THE FABULO LIFE OF AN OPENLY GAY COLLEGE SWIMMER
• GAY OLYMPICS SWIMMER MAK WAV AND OUT OF THE WATER
• THE GAY VERSN OF SI'S SWIMSU ISSUE
• TWO COLLEGIATE ATHLET SHARE TAL OF BEG OPENLY GAY SWIMMG
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH AND NDNG ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• CT NATIVE BREAKS BARRIER AS FIRST OPENLY-GAY NFL ACH
• GIANT MURAL ON NORWICH PUB HONOURS JT FASHANU, ENGLAND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• THERE ARE A RERD 11 OPENLY GAY MALE OLYMPIANS R. NONE IS AN AMERIN.
• ANCHORED BY AN OPENLY GAY SWIMMER, CANADA SETS NATNAL RELAY RERD AND BARELY MISS A MEDAL
• 'I FEEL VERY EMPOWERED': DIVER TOM DALEY DISCS BEG OPENLY GAY AFTER WNG GOLD
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• 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

THE FABULO LIFE OF AN OPENLY GAY COLLEGE SWIMMER

Instead of wearg pla black Speedos, I chose to add a ltle flair and a lot of glter to my warm-up and ol-down an openly gay athlete at USC has been nothg short of fabulo. Even though I’m playg the stereotypil gay iend and teammate, I love and accept that role. Although I am gay, my teammat as well as other athlet at SC don’t re.

GAY OLYMPICS SWIMMER MAK WAV AND OUT OF THE WATER

Most ach and athlet don’t re that I kiss at boys on Saturday nights, but are much more ncerned about how much I hang-clean (95kg), how fast I n a 300-yard shuttle and how many pots I sred my 200 dividual is a prenceived notn athletics that gay men aren’t as strong, fast or mascule as our straight unterparts or that we don’t want to work up a sweat and lift heavy weight bee we would ms up our hair. Here at USC I know of a handful of gay athlet.

Like many gay men here Los Angel, I love bnch. I have also been able to ntue to grow as a gay man the Los Angel muny.

I unrstand that I might e across as an entled homo who is lucky enough to live Los Angel, one of the most acceptg ci the U. But that didn’t happen by accint and by no means do I not regnize the stggl of other gay athlete elsewhere.

THE GAY VERSN OF SI'S SWIMSU ISSUE

I thk one of the thgs that ma my recg procs very easy was that I was out high school and was able to regnize that I wanted to have a gay life as well as an athletic life. At the time, I was datg a hman llege athlete who had been through the recg procs and stggl that e along wh beg gay on a llege team, so I had him as a rource. It was important to be open to know how different teams would react to havg a gay teammate.

I remember tellg a ach at one school I was gay and askg if this would be a problem on the team.

TWO COLLEGIATE ATHLET SHARE TAL OF BEG OPENLY GAY SWIMMG

We talked on the phone for about an hour about how his team is open and acceptg and how awome would be to have an openly gay swimmer on the team. My head ach poted out that they had stolen my team name, that beg "Team Gay Boy. I don’t thk many people this day and age walk out the door one sunny morng and proclaim "I’m GAY!

Beg gay don’t fe you as a person or as an athlete.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

Talk to your gay uncle Bob.

In May, the openly gay Fnish swimmer won the 50-meter etyle at the European champnships, ls than three months before he is set to swim the same race, along wh the 100-meter etyle, Tokyo. But was jt before the 2014 Wter Olympics Sochi, Rsia, (where they obvly don’t have swimmg) where the 6-10 Fn ma his biggt splash, when he me out as gay. “I wanted to jo the discsn relatn to Sochi, sce is a sad fact that the Rsian gay law affects negatively Rsian young people’s liv and g human rights general, he told the Fnish Natnal TV Channel YLE’s “Sports Weekend” show at the time.

JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH AND NDNG ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

Sports reprented clu swimmg, divg, volleyball, bodybuildg, soccer, Asie Rul Football, gby and first two photos the gallery are openly gay Olympic divers Tom Daley and Asie Matthew Mcham (2nd om left the group photo). ) shot of Cristiano Ronaldo, maybe the gayt straight man the world.

Matthew Mcham, Ian Thorpe and Tom Daley: gay athletic stars who have broken barriers the world of sport. YouTuber and Olympic diver Tom Daley, and Amy Award-wng Hollywood screenwrer Dt Lance Black, are one of the world’s most high profile gay upl.

CT NATIVE BREAKS BARRIER AS FIRST OPENLY-GAY NFL ACH

Published: 5:00am, 15 Jul, 2021 Updated: 5:00am, 15 Jul, 2021 Matthew Mcham, Ian Thorpe and Tom Daley: gay athletic stars who have broken barriers the world of sport.

IN the aftermath of Amerin profsnal basketball player Jason Colls announcg he is gay, the media has turned s foc recently on the plight of openly gay athlet other sports.

GIANT MURAL ON NORWICH PUB HONOURS JT FASHANU, ENGLAND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER

This week, two swimmers who reprent major universi the Uned Stat shared their perspectiv of beg acplished athlet who also happen to be gay. In a post today on the gay sports webse, Universy of Southern California junr Sean Mulroy wr about the plete acceptance he has received om teammat and ach there. Mulroy said his lumn on OutSports that beg openly gay has allowed him to foc more on beg a better swimmer.

Recently, Texas A&M was named one of the top 10 least-iendly schools for gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr athlet by the Prceton Review. But Fonua said he never experienced any homophobia on mp. “And to get that as a gay athlete is pretty huge, pecially bee 's peer-voted.

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

Mulroy spoke of beg openly gay October 2012:. -- Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer and to possibly spire others siar 's a cisn and move that drew praise and support om owner Shad Khan, who was a vol and emphatic supporter of a cy ordance that expand protectns on the grounds of sexual orientatn, genr inty and genr exprsn.

Outsi lebacker Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay and to play a game Associated Prs ntributed to this report. Maxen origally ntacted gay NFL player Carl Nassib Febary 2022, who then nnected Maxen wh Outsports. Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen is now the first openly gay male ach the NFL.

(Jam Gilbert/Getty Imag)Jacksonville Jaguars assistant strength ach Kev Maxen me out publicly as gay Thursday, which mak him the first known openly gay male ach the NFL and all of Amerin men’s profsnal joed the Jaguars’ strength and ndng staff last season. ”Maxen is the latt the NFL to e out publicly as gay. Tampa Bay Bucneers fensive end Carl Nassib beme the league’s first active openly gay player when he me out 2021, when he was wh the Las Vegas Rairs.

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

Former San Francis 49ers assistant Katie Sowers ma history as both the first woman and first openly gay ach a Super Bowl was a lebacker at Wtern Connecticut State, a Divisn III program. While openly gay swimmers are nothg new, Nassib is a history-maker as the first openly gay player the NFL.

As Gay Tim reported here, Nassib posted a photo of the two on his Instagram story early 2023, ptng “Kickg off 2023 wh my man and a trip to the playoffs. Nassib was playg for the Rairs when he me out as gay June 2021 makg him the first openly gay active NFL player the league’s then-101-year history. Nassib sat down wh ABC News July 2022 to discs his experience g out and playg the NFL as an openly gay man.

ANCHORED BY AN OPENLY GAY SWIMMER, CANADA SETS NATNAL RELAY RERD AND BARELY MISS A MEDAL

He wrote, however, that he NFL, like most other aspects of Wtern society, is seemgly more ready for and acceptg of openly gay athlet.

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

Henig began racg for the Yale women’s swim team 2018 and was the hight-srg member of that team his sophomore year.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

While stori such as Henig’s show that queer reprentatn the sport n exist, many swimmers the past few years have reported homophobic and transphobic treatment om teammat ach, and the greater swimmg muny.

In 2019, Abrahm Deve shared a post on Instagram, allegg that he was kicked off the Stanford swim team for beg gay.

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Later that month, he specified his claims, sayg that he was lled a homophobic slur, was publicly huiated, was outed whout nsent, and was sexually acsted. In rponse to the claim that he was kicked off the team for beg gay, ach Greg Meehan and Dan Schemmel said that “ is tly unfortunate Abe feels this way.

In 2015, French Olympian Melanie Henique was forced to whdraw om the French Open after sufferg a broken nose durg a homophobic attack at a rtrant Amiens.