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"I'm fortable sayg I'm a gay man," he revealed after years of nials

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IAN THORPE OUT AS GAY

Five-time Olympic swimmg gold medallist Ian Thorpe for the first time publicly nfirmed that he is gay durg a televisn terview on Sunday, endg years of speculatn about his sexualy. * ian thorpe gay *

Five-time Olympic swimmg gold medallist Ian Thorpe for the first time publicly nfirmed that he is gay durg a televisn terview on Sunday, endg years of speculatn about his, who had long nied that he was gay, told Brish talk show host Michael Parkson an terview broadst on Atralia's Channel 10 that he jt recently realized the tth about himself.

In his 2012 tobgraphy, "This Is Me, " Thorpe wrote, "For the rerd, I am not gay and all of my sexual experienc have been straight. He was too young to know whether he was gay or straight, and said he rpond that he was straight to avoid teasg om classmat.

IAN THORPE OUT AS GAY PARKSON TERVIEW

Ian Thorpe is openly gay and maybe now he'll be happy. I had a glimpse of his suatn 10 years ago. * ian thorpe gay *

"I'm fortable sayg I'm a gay man, " he said.

I 'KNEW' IAN THORPE WAS GAY BACK 2004

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You n grow up, you n be fortable and you n be gay. And part of me didn't know if Atralia wanted s champn to be gay, " he said. 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.

ATRALIAN SWIMMER IAN THORPE COM OUT AS GAY

El gran mpeón habla su ndición sexual en una entrevista tras años negar que fuera gay * ian thorpe gay *

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.

IAN THORPE, LE G-OUT : ''JE LE DIS HT ET FORT, JE SUIS GAY''

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 .

IAN THORPE ANNOUNC HE IS GAY

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. " It was all not te, of urse, as we disvered Sunday when Thorpe told Michael Parkson that he is gay.

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