Homosexualy is illegal 36 untri takg part Birmgham 2022 and the diver has prevly said that the Commonwealth n do more to support gay rights
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- GLEN QUAYLE IS AN OUT GAY POLE VLTER THE NCAA AND COMMONWEALTH GAM
- OLYMPIC SWIMMER DAN JERVIS OUT, WANTS TO BE VISIBLE GAY ATHLETE AT THE COMMONWEALTH GAM
GLEN QUAYLE IS AN OUT GAY POLE VLTER THE NCAA AND COMMONWEALTH GAM
Reprentatn at the Gam is already more than three tim greater than at Gold Coast 2018, and creasg day-by-day; Sports Media LGBT+, media partner on Pri Hoe Birmgham, workg wh historian Tony Scupham-Bilton on rearch; om prev Gam, at least 75 former petors are known to be LGBTQ+ and out; over 50 of the athlet past and prent featurg ‘Photos of Pri’ exhibn at ma Pri Hoe venue Birmgham’s Gay Village * gay commonwealth games athletes *
The list of out athlet was piled by Jon Holm, a gay sports journalist and advote who currently ns Sports Media LGBT+, and Tony Scupham-Bilton, an expert on LGBTQ history and the world’s most-renowned expert on LGBTQ history the Olympic Gam; He ns a fantastic blog lled Queerstory Fil. Sce then, he’s simply been “out” as a gay athlete.
While he’s found support amongst teammat, he’s also felt some homophobia om the broar muny there. — almost 300 wt of Mneapolis — might not be the most supportive place for an out gay man. When someone at the party asked him if he was gay, and he affirmed that fact, the rponse he received was ls than kd.
That was one of my first face-to-face experienc wh homophobia.
OLYMPIC SWIMMER DAN JERVIS OUT, WANTS TO BE VISIBLE GAY ATHLETE AT THE COMMONWEALTH GAM
Still, the ocsnal homophobia Quayle has faced South Dakota has been hard for him to handle. The Olympic diver Tom Daley has nmned homophobia across Commonwealth natns ahead of the start of petn the Commonwealth Gam Birmgham this part of a new BBC documentary to be aired next month, the athlete vised some of the Commonwealth’s most homophobic untri to expose the danger and discrimatn faced by the LGBT+ muny. “I’ve experienced homophobia all my life, petg untri where ’s illegal to be me and where I don’t feel safe to leave the venue I’m petg , ” he said.
”The film will culmate wh Daley, who won gold at the Commonwealth Gam 2018, rryg the Queen’s baton to Birmgham’s Alexanr Stadium for the openg ceremony on Thursday, acpanied by some of the athlet and advot he met on his documentary will show him speakg wh a number of LGBT+ athlet cludg Michael Gunng, the only openly gay athlete on Jamai’s natnal team, and Dutee Chand, India’s first openly gay of 56 Commonwealth member stat, 35 crimalise same-sex relatns, makg up half of the untri globally that outlaw homosexualy. “The Commonwealth is a homophobic stutn.
Reprentatn at the Gam is already more than three tim greater than at Gold Coast 2018, and creasg day-by-day; Sports Media LGBT+, media partner on Pri Hoe Birmgham, workg wh historian Tony Scupham-Bilton on rearch; om prev Gam, at least 75 former petors are known to be LGBTQ+ and out; over 50 of the athlet past and prent featurg ‘Photos of Pri’ exhibn at ma Pri Hoe venue Birmgham’s Gay Village. The ma Pri Hoe is loted the heart of the cy’s Gay Village, above The Loft Bar & Kchen at 143 Bromsgrove St, and was officially opened before the start of the Commonwealth Gam. And an effort to uplift other LGBTQ athlet and activists—some om untri where homosexualy is outlawed—Daley brought along six other out petors and public figur om the Commonwealth.