Domic Clarke had a ‘gay old time’ beg himself at the Olympics once he embraced who he was.
Contents:
- FOR GAY OLYMPIC GYMNAST DOMIC CLARKE, G OUT ALLOWED HIM TO SHE TOKYO
- GAY OLYMPIC GYMNAST DOMIC CLARKE STRS VISIBILY AFTER G OUT
- GAY OLYMPIC GYMNAST DOMIC CLARKE WOWS JUDG ON ‘THE VOICE ATRALIA’
- JI WALLACE BEME AN OLYMPIC HERO 20 YEARS AGO, BEFORE G OUT AS GAY
- GAY TRAMPOLE
- WHEN THIS 5-TIME NATNAL CHAMP ME OUT TO HIS TEAMMAT, THE GAY JOK STOPPED
FOR GAY OLYMPIC GYMNAST DOMIC CLARKE, G OUT ALLOWED HIM TO SHE TOKYO
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For gay Olympic gymnast Domic Clarke, g out allowed him to she Tokyo. Domic Clarke had a ‘gay old time’ beg himself at the Olympics once he embraced who he was.
I was posed and peted thentilly and led me to be Domic Clarke, Olympic Falist and Proud Gay Olympian. I was havg a gay old time. Growg up, I was one of those kids who was untentnally and unapologetilly gay.
GAY OLYMPIC GYMNAST DOMIC CLARKE STRS VISIBILY AFTER G OUT
Before I had time to explore who I was I heard ments like, “You’re a gymnast, you mt be gay” or “Isn’t that for girls?
” or “You have to wear a leotard, that’s so gay. I spent a lot of time fendg myself and my sport to protect the tegry of other male athlet I traed wh, but dog so I was lyg to myself by repeatedly sayg I wasn’t gay.
GAY OLYMPIC GYMNAST DOMIC CLARKE WOWS JUDG ON ‘THE VOICE ATRALIA’
I remember the p my stomach that I would get every time someone asked me if I was gay, and the sharp pa I would feel when I lied. While I n see why lots of heterosexual boys don’t want to have an inty phed on them that many nsir taboo, the rult is that creat an unrlyg homophobia for many the sport. The only openly gay sports role mols I saw on Atralian TV were Ji Wallace, who won silver 2000 the trampole, and Matthew Mcham, who won a divg gold 2008.
Even though I was fortably out wh certa people, I never wanted to me known as a “gay gymnast. It uld be as simple as tattoos or piercgs for some judg, and I thought beg gay uld be a negative as well.
JI WALLACE BEME AN OLYMPIC HERO 20 YEARS AGO, BEFORE G OUT AS GAY
I was openly gay socially wh my fay and close iends. Beg the only gay guy a boy’s club environment is tough.
There were only so many tim I uld put up wh teammat or ach sayg homophobic slurs before started affectg my mental health. As an openly gay gymnast who people saw at the Olympics, I hope I n spire others to feel pri wh themself. Trampole gymnast Domic Clarke of Atralia had a simple reason for g out as gay a month before the Olympics by beg a Pri ambassador for Gymnastics New South Wal.
He intifi as gay and queer. Gay Olympic trampole gymnast Domic Clarke has opened up about his stggle to e out as an athlete: “It was isolatg and embarrassg.
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Although he had a “gay old time” at the Olympics, able to be “mpy and quirky wh the whole world watchg”, hasn’t always been that way. Before he’d even had time to explore his own inty, he was pelted wh qutns and ments om those around him, like “you’re a gymnast, you mt be gay” or “isn’t that for girls?
” or “you have to wear a leotard, that’s so gay. But fendg himself and his sport, he said, meant “lyg to myself by repeatedly sayg I wasn’t gay”.
He mostly hung out wh the girls at his gym, but when he reached an ele level and joed a men’s team, he found that “beg the only gay guy a boy’s club environment is tough”. “There were only so many tim I uld put up wh teammat or ach sayg homophobic slurs before started affectg my mental health.
WHEN THIS 5-TIME NATNAL CHAMP ME OUT TO HIS TEAMMAT, THE GAY JOK STOPPED
“As an openly gay gymnast who people saw at the Olympics, I hope I n spire others to feel pri wh themself… At the end of the day, we’re jt dog flips and we’re not changg the world a major way, but that don’t mean that we n’t create small chang wh .
Clarke, who intifi as gay and queer, received a standg ovatn at the ncln of his performance and looked ebullient as he soaked what he had acplished. He also talks about his cisn to e out publicly both as a gay man, and then later as havg HIV.
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