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Could Josh Dixon Be The First Openly Gay Olympics Gymnast?

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Across our culture today, when a man “ out” so many immediately label him “gay gay gay!

That Leyva don’t intify as gay, is still tryg to figure out how exactly he intifi, and is still willg to share all of this publicly should be empowerg to other men who are the same boat. Weeks before the 2016 printial electn, he shared a msage of support for LGBTQ people, and trans rights particular, while wearg a “Make Ameri Gay Aga” T-shirt.

JOSH DIXON, OLYMPICS GYMNASTICS HOPEFUL, COM OUT AS GAY

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So when I ntacted him 2014, askg if he’d like to talk about beg gay, he jt wasn’t ready.

People around him knew he was gay. Var posts across the ter speculated about him beg gay, or outright claimed . I was obvly gay, everybody knew me as such, and I didn’t go postg about .

That’s not regret how he felt, but how he was ma to feel by a system of ele men’s sports that driv gay athlet to qutn whether they n live life openly the public’s eye. While this is the first time he’s talkg publicly the media about beg gay, he did post-retirement share news of his weddg, and he’s been g #gaypri regularly on Instagram. Hashtags asi, Ruggeri’s life on social media isn’t “Gay gay gay.

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