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CHRIS DICKERSON, FIRST BLACK OPENLY GAY BODYBUILR TO W MR. AMERI TLE, DEAD AT 82

Dickerson also had the distctn of beg the first openly gay Mr. Brilliant the posg route, held the rerd of the olst Mr Olympia wner, and was the first openly gay Pro BB ?. The Profsnal Athlete Who Came Out as a Gay Man— 1989.

THE PROFSNAL ATHLETE WHO CAME OUT AS A GAY MAN— 1989

In the late '80s, a Los Angel Tim poll revealed that nearly 70 percent of the untry thought homosexualy was a s. Now, more than 25 years after g out of the closet, the former bodybuildg champ shar his thoughts on the ath threats he received after his announcement, the fate of his relatnship wh Rod and the untry's shiftg perceptn of homosexualy. "In the Miami bodybuildg circu they probably know me as the gay one, and I've never been met wh any adverse reactns.

THIS GAY 61-YEAR-OLD BODYBUILR HAS FOUND A HOME HIS STRAIGHT GYM

I knew I was gay om the time I had hormon and saw my first Tarzan movie. Beg a closeted gay kid, to me seemed that if I h a gym and began liftg, somehow, that era, I was gog to be qutned.

My formative years Ottawa, the pal of Canada, were marked by anti-gay ernment wch-hunts of the 1960s, as well as hyper-Catholic and eply homophobic parents and brother.

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