Beloved gay Olympic athlete Simon Dunn has died at 35 - LGBTQ Natn

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• BELOVED GAY OLYMPIC ATHLETE SIMON DUNN HAS DIED AT 35
• GAY GBY PLAYER, BOBSLEDR, ACTIVIST SIMON DUNN DI AT 35
• GAY BOBSLEDR SIMON DUNN AND MAT SHOW OFF THEIR BODS SWIMSUS
• GAY BOBSLEDR VOTED HOTTT MAN WORLD BY BRISH MAGAZE
• GAY BOBSLEDR SIMON DUNN BULKS UP AND BULG OUT OF HIS SPANX NEW VIO: WATCH
• OPENLY GAY BOBSLEDR AND GBY PLAYER SIMON DUNN DI AT 35
• GAY BOBSLEDR SIMON DUNN IS SANTA A SWIMSU
• GAY RUGBY PLAYER, BOBSLEDR SIMON DUNN DI AT 35
• INSPIRATNAL GAY ATRALIAN BOBSLEIGH STAR SIMON DUNN AD AT 35
• SIMON DUNN: HOW LATE GAY GBY PLAYER BRAVELY FOUGHT AGAST HOMOPHOBIA BEFORE HIS TRAGIC ATH
• LIFE CUT SHORT: SIMON DUNN, ATRALIA'S FIRST GAY BOBSLEDR AND FOOTBALL STAR, DI TOO SOON AT 35
• MLB UMPIRE DON’T NEED THREE STRIK TO BE OUT AND ATRALIA WEL A GAY BOBSLEDR
• REMEMBERG SIMON DUNN: ATRALIA’S PNEERG GAY BOBSLEDR AND RUGBY PLAYER
• SPRTER TYSON GAY EMBARKS ON ICEPA AT US BOBSLED CHAMPNSHIPS
• OPENLY GAY BOBSLEDR AND GBY PLAYER SIMON DUNN DI AT 35

BELOVED GAY OLYMPIC ATHLETE SIMON DUNN HAS DIED AT 35

Simon Dunn, Atralia’s first out gay bobsledr, has died at 35. He was the first out gay person any untry to pete Olympic bobsleddg.

In October, Dunn, who beme known for speakg out agast homophobia sports, posted on Instagram that he had parted ways wh his partner of five years and that had been “a rough year of personal loss.

GAY GBY PLAYER, BOBSLEDR, ACTIVIST SIMON DUNN DI AT 35

The gay gby player and bobsledr posted this photo on Facebook a few days before he passed.

#SimonDunn #gaynews. #MentalHealthMatters #MensMentalHealth — Darren Lacey (He/Him/Homo AF) (@dazlarrr) January 23, 2023.

GAY BOBSLEDR SIMON DUNN AND MAT SHOW OFF THEIR BODS SWIMSUS

He’s the perfect example of a morn gay Republin. Simon Dunn, an openly gay bobsledr and gby player who beme an advote for LGBTQ , died Saturday Sydney, Atralia.

GAY BOBSLEDR VOTED HOTTT MAN WORLD BY BRISH MAGAZE

“He was a passnate advote for LGBTQIA+ reprentatn sport, speakg about his experienc of homophobia his younger years, ” a statement om the HIV support group Bobby Goldsmh Foundatn said. Dunn played gby wh gay-oriented teams London and Sydney and then moved to Canada while he tackled bobsled, hopg to qualify for the Olympics.

Atralian gymnast Heath Thorpe, himself gay, posted a lovg tribute to his iend on Twter:. LGBTQ+ reprentatn overall at the year’s Olympic Gam more than doubl that of the 2018 Wter Gam, wh at least 35 openly gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, queer, pansexual and nonbary petors.

HOUSE COMMITTEE IN FLORIDA PASSES ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL. Simon Dunn is one of our favore openly gay athlet sce he do not shy away om showg off his physil assets and has fun dog . "As an out gay athlete, Dunn fiercely advoted for LGBTQ+ cln the world of sports and fought back agast anti-gay rhetoric the field.

GAY BOBSLEDR SIMON DUNN BULKS UP AND BULG OUT OF HIS SPANX NEW VIO: WATCH

Simon Dunn, an openly gay bobsledr om Atralia, has been voted the hottt man the world by the rears of Attu magaze, a Brish gay publitn. Dunn beat out two-time champn, Tom Daley, himself an openly gay athlete. "If I n make one young gay teen see that sexualy shouldn't be a factor sport then that's a w self.

Not very reprentative but harmls and 's ol an openly gay athlete got regnized. The out gay Atralian bobsledr and Attu Magaze Hot 100-er today posted a vio featurg highlights om his tryouts for the Atralian natnal bobsled team.

OPENLY GAY BOBSLEDR AND GBY PLAYER SIMON DUNN DI AT 35

Cue gay ics fans simultaneoly burstg wh light.

Racg for Atralia, Dunn was the first openly gay man to reprent any bobsleigh team at ternatnal level. When his image was ed a homophobic meme, Dunn publicly rpond by sayg, “Don’t e my image for your ternalised homophobia, don’t make assumptns on the kd of gay man I am or the kd of gay men I associate myself wh…I’ll always support those who are te to themselv and be who they tly are.

© 2023 GCN (Gay Communy News). Simon Dunn, the former Atralian bobsledr and now gby player livg Canada, has been an out and proud gay athlete.

GAY BOBSLEDR SIMON DUNN IS SANTA A SWIMSU

I’m fally fortable my own sk as a proud gay man. He was ma history when he earned a spot on the Atralian bobsleddg team, the first out gay man the sport.

He also played for the Sydney Convicts, the profsnal gby team ma up entirely of gay players.

GAY RUGBY PLAYER, BOBSLEDR SIMON DUNN DI AT 35

1674436812Dunn had been an avid gby player when he was younger but stepped away om playg large part due to the homophobia the sport.

He ced an episo where a straight player on his high school team qutned whether a gay person should be a scm. “Havg your own teammat not wantg you on the field was tough and was part of the reason why I qu the game, actually all sport, for a nsirable amount of time, ” he told ESPN left sports and the untry for a perd, but eventually returned to Atralia and tried out for the all-gay Sydney Convicts gby team.

INSPIRATNAL GAY ATRALIAN BOBSLEIGH STAR SIMON DUNN AD AT 35

“You learn to believe a gay person don't have a place the sportg field, ” he said.

Atralia’s first openly gay bobsledr has sudnly died aged 35 “after a rough year of personal loss” Dunn, who also played gby for the gay and clive Sydney Convicts team, spired the LGBTI muny wh his sportg feats. Tragilly he was found ad Surry Hills, Sydney, on Saturday, his agent and the police, who was om Wollongong, moved to Canada to further his bobsleigh reer and beme the first gay man to reprent a untry at the eventually retired, but ma a eback 2021 an attempt to qualify for the 2022 Wter a bicep jury led him out of the terviewed Dunn 2020 while he was an ambassador for GiveOUTDay, a fundraisg event for LGBTI said at the time he was asked by a fellow gby player if he was “really gay” bee he was tacklg so hard. But I see remarks like that as a chance to te people – and flatten a few people the procs, ” he told He had recently posted on Instagram about breakg up wh Felix his partner of five years, sayg had been a “rough year” met his partner London when he was playg for another gay gby team, the Kgs Cross Steelers.

SIMON DUNN: HOW LATE GAY GBY PLAYER BRAVELY FOUGHT AGAST HOMOPHOBIA BEFORE HIS TRAGIC ATH

”Dunn was an advote for the LGBTI muny and took on Israel Fol over his ntroversial claim that all gay people would go to hell.

“There is still homophobia sport, ” he told Sky News at the time.

LIFE CUT SHORT: SIMON DUNN, ATRALIA'S FIRST GAY BOBSLEDR AND FOOTBALL STAR, DI TOO SOON AT 35

So I posted thkg ’s a nice photo, I uld e my profile that there are gay athlet out there.

”Dunn began playg gby when he was 17 Wollongong but told he stopped bee of the homophobia the sport. However, some prejudice n e om wh the gay muny, he said.

Dunn was appalled when 2019 a meme began dog the rounds that ed him as an example of a “normal gay” who “don’t force upon you the fact they’re gay”.

MLB UMPIRE DON’T NEED THREE STRIK TO BE OUT AND ATRALIA WEL A GAY BOBSLEDR

“Simon reprented all, he always said ‘I am not the spokman, I am jt a gay whe male tellg you about my experienc, and experienc om those wh whom I listened and learnt’. Simon Dunn, Atralia’s first openly gay bobsledr, has been scribed as an “impassned optimist” who worked tirelsly for chary, after he died at the age of 35.

After retirg om the sport 2016, he took up gby, playg for all-gay team, the Sydney Convicts, as well as the Brish gay-clive team the Kgs Cross Steelers while livg London. Asi om his athletic achievements, Dunn dited his time to raisg money and awarens for LGBTQ+ , beg a regular ntributor to magaz such as Attu and Gay Tim, where he spoke out about his own horrific experienc of homophobia, and the need for LGBTQ+ reprentatn sport. In an article for Gay Tim, Dunn claimed he would ntue champng all-gay teams “until I n fortably say homophobia sport is all but a distant memory”.

REMEMBERG SIMON DUNN: ATRALIA’S PNEERG GAY BOBSLEDR AND RUGBY PLAYER

Among several charable pursus, he ma headl for settg up a fundraiser for LGBTQ+ youth after fellow gby star Israel Fol was sacked by Rugby Atralia 2019 for makg homophobic ments.

SPRTER TYSON GAY EMBARKS ON ICEPA AT US BOBSLED CHAMPNSHIPS

The statement ntued: “He was a passnate advote for LGBTQIA+ reprentatn sport, speakg about his experienc of homophobia his younger years. Atralia's first publicly gay bobsled player has passed on. He also joed the Convicts, Atralia's first gay gby team that plays the Sydney Suburban Rugby Unn champnship, and the Kgs Cross Steelers London.

Dunn ed his voice to addrs former Wallaby Israel Fol's ment that all gay people were gog to hell while enuragg an end to homophobia Rugby.

OPENLY GAY BOBSLEDR AND GBY PLAYER SIMON DUNN DI AT 35

"There is still homophobia sport. ), but now has a gay player by the name of Simon Dunn. And I’m also proud of the fact that I’m the first out gay man the sport to do so!