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Contents:
- 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
* 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.
OLYMPIC SWIMMER DAN JERVIS OUT, WANTS TO BE VISIBLE GAY ATHLETE AT THE COMMONWEALTH GAM
— 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. 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.