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Contents:
- GAY OLYMPIC HISTORIAN: KNOWN LGBTQ ATHLET WERE PETG EARLY 20TH CENTURY
- WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE
- WHY THE FIRST GAY OLYMPICS WAS A WATERSHED MOMENT SPORTS
- THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 39 GAY OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS. HERE’S THE LIST
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF OPENLY GAY OLYMPIANS
- GAY HISTORIAN ON WHY AND HOW HE PIL HIS LIST OF LGBTQ OLYMPIANS
- ADAM RIPPON MA HISTORY AS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY AMERIN MAN TO W AT THE WTER OLYMPICS
GAY OLYMPIC HISTORIAN: KNOWN LGBTQ ATHLET WERE PETG EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Tom Wadll, an athlete the 1968 Olympics, created the Gay Gam first held 1982 to celebrate LGBTQ cln. The Gay Gam are still held to this day wh the next round schled for 2022 Hong Kong. * 1995 gay olympics *
German nner Otto Peltzer, who peted the 1928 and 1932 Olympics, is arrted by the Nazi regime for homosexualy. Tom Wadll, the man who would lnch the Gay Gam 1982, pet the thlon at the Mexi Cy Olympics, where he sixth.
Atralian diver Matthew Mcham be the first out gay male Olympic champn, wng gold the 10-meter platform Beijg. Leif Rovsg, the Danish tennis player who fought agast a ban by his untry to eventually fight for gay cln sports.
CW: homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia (clu anti-trans ias of bodi and surgeri/hormon).
WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE
* 1995 gay olympics *
1974 – Patricia Nell Warren’s book, The Front Runner, is published – A gay love story between a gay ach and a nner on his team. 1976 –Wter Olympics-John Curry, English figure skater, out, be first openly gay athlete to w Olympic gold. 1982 – Tom Wadll, a 6th place fisher the 1968 Olympic thlon, founds first Gay Gam San Francis.
Uned Stat Olympic Commtee ( IOC) succsfully su to prevent the gam beg lled “Gay Olympics” 1987. 1985 – Former Universy of Ptsburgh football player Ed Gallagher surviv suici attempt, dit life to battlg homophobia. 1988 – Dave Pallone, a gay Natnal League umpire, is fired bee of false charg that he is volved a gay teenaged sex rg.
WHY THE FIRST GAY OLYMPICS WAS A WATERSHED MOMENT SPORTS
Olympic divg legend Greg Louganis [he/him], 61, won four gold medals across back-to-back Olympic Gam, 1984 and 1988. He me out publicly as gay at the Gay Gam 1994. * 1995 gay olympics *
1991 – Philalphia Enquirer article about Rene Portland’s anti-lbian policy – Marks shift media verage: Homophobia is the problem and Portland’s policy is wrong. 1992 – Marta Navratilova speaks at the Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual Rights.
1994 – Fourth Gay Gam New York Cy was the largt athletic petn history wh 11, 000 participants.
THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 39 GAY OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS. HERE’S THE LIST
1995 timele of major events LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr) rights history, cludg homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * 1995 gay olympics *
1995 – Ian Roberts, one of Atralia’s most popular gby players, pos nu for a gay magaze and out. 1996 – David Pichler and Patrick Jefey, two openly gay divers, pete the Atlanta Olympics. 1998 – Mike Mka, a gay man and former llegiate track and field ach, is named the athletic director at Oberl College beg the first openly gay male ever that posn.
1998 – Brian Orser, former world champn figure skater and Olympic silver medalist, out as a gay man a palimony su filed by an ex-lover.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF OPENLY GAY OLYMPIANS
1999 – publish first web page voted to sports news and rmatn for gay sports fans and athlet- iated by Cyd Zeigler and Jim Buzski. 1999 – John Rocker spews homophobia to Sports Illtrated, is spend by Major League Baseball.
2000 – Openly gay high school football pta Corey Johnson gets natnal attentn om ABC, New York Tim. 2002 – The Natnal Center for Lbian Rights iat the Homophobia Sports Project to provi legal and advocy support for athlet and ach discrimated agast on the basis of the sexual orientatn or genr inty. 2003 – Universy of Pennsylvania founds the first stunt-athlete group foced on elimatg homophobia athletics, Penn Athlet Agast Homophobia (PATH).
GAY HISTORIAN ON WHY AND HOW HE PIL HIS LIST OF LGBTQ OLYMPIANS
2003 – The Gay and Lbian Athletic Foundatn holds the first natnal nference on lbian and gay issu sport Boston, MA. 2008 – Eleven openly gay, lbian and bisexual Olympians w a total of seven medals at the Beijg Gam, cludg a gold medal divg won by Atralian Matthew Mcham, the only openly gay man petg the gam. 2011-GLSEN teams wh the NBA to create a Thk B4 You Speak PSA vio featurg NBA players, Grant Hill and Jared Dudley on anti-gay name-llg sports.
In 1976, Wadll and his partner Charl Deaton are the first gay men to be featured the "Coupl" sectn of People magaze.
Five years later, Wadll forms San Francis Arts and Athletics to plan the first "Gay Olympic Gam. Kg is currently preparg to lnch her own Billie Jean Foundatn that will support gay and lbian youths.
ADAM RIPPON MA HISTORY AS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY AMERIN MAN TO W AT THE WTER OLYMPICS
In 1989, he reveals his homosexualy to the bodybuildg muny durg an terview wh Ironman magaze. Gallagher says that before his suici attempt, he had bee unable to rencile his image of himself as an athlete wh gay urg.
Smh never acknowledged that he was gay, but David Kopay's tobgraphy, Smh was scribed as his first love. Bce Hay, an Olympic swimmer who won a gold medal 1984 as a member of the 800-meter etyle relay, out publicly at the Gay Gam and ws seven gold medals petn.
Roy Simmons, an offensive guard for the New York Giants and the Washgton Redsks om 1979-83, reveals he is gay durg an appearance on The Phil Donahue Show. Durg the same terview which he adms his homosexualy, Burke says he believ he was trad om the Dodgers bee management spected his was gay. Greg Louganis, four-time Olympic gold medalist divg who be HIV-posive, out public at the Gay Gam.