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THE GAY VERSN OF SI'S SWIMSU ISSUE
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. We’re two swimmers and bt iends, both llege, who happen to be gay.
Before we tell you the story of how two gay swimmers helped each other e out, we want to share some background about each of . I was always good at hidg my emotns and phg my feelgs ep si, so I had no problem hidg that I was gay until high school.
On top of everythg else I was a petive swimmer, a sport known for beg “more gay” bee my uniform was a ty piece of fabric jt large enough to ver “my stuff” and I went to a private, Catholic high school. I was aaid of tellg my teammat that I was gay bee I feared they would look at me differently or my guy iends would distance themselv.
TWO GAY SWIMMERS ARE BT IENDS AND EACH OTHER’S ROCK
The hard part was the lonely, dark place I put myself when faced wh the realy that people knew I was gay.
I’ve had such hard time g to terms wh my sexualy bee I was sred that my fay would hate me bee homosexualy is a s.