The gay athlete said he is ‘heartbroken’ over the cisn to exclu him om the World Champnships.
Contents:
- JOSH DIXON, OLYMPICS GYMNASTICS HOPEFUL, COM OUT AS GAY
- FOR GAY OLYMPIC GYMNAST DOMIC CLARKE, G OUT ALLOWED HIM TO SHE TOKYO
- GAY OLYMPIC GYMNAST DOMIC CLARKE STRS VISIBILY AFTER G OUT
JOSH DIXON, OLYMPICS GYMNASTICS HOPEFUL, COM OUT AS GAY
Could Josh Dixon Be The First Openly Gay Olympics Gymnast? * gay gymnastic *
Across our culture today, when a man “ out” so many immediately label him “gay gay gay!
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. * gay gymnastic *
That Leyva don’t intify as gay, is still tryg to figure out how exactly he intifi, and is still willg to share all of this publicly should be empowerg to other men who are the same boat. Weeks before the 2016 printial electn, he shared a msage of support for LGBTQ people, and trans rights particular, while wearg a “Make Ameri Gay Aga” T-shirt. The men the sports are eher largely assumed to be gay, or their sexualy is unknown.
Women face the same issu, but reverse: Ice hockey and softball players are assumed gay, figure skaters and gymnasts assumed straight. In the sports where athlet are assumed to be “gay, ” the prsure on athlet is to rist that label so they don’t nform to people’s assumptns.
The attus — that some sports are “gay” and some are “straight” — are changg, but they n’t change fast enough.
GAY OLYMPIC GYMNAST DOMIC CLARKE STRS VISIBILY AFTER G OUT
Gay Olympic gymnast Domic Clarke has opened up about his stggle to e out as an athlete: "It was isolatg and embarrassg." * gay gymnastic *
So when I ntacted him 2014, askg if he’d like to talk about beg gay, he jt wasn’t ready. People around him knew he was gay.
Var posts across the ter speculated about him beg gay, or outright claimed . I was obvly gay, everybody knew me as such, and I didn’t go postg about . That’s not regret how he felt, but how he was ma to feel by a system of ele men’s sports that driv gay athlet to qutn whether they n live life openly the public’s eye.
* gay gymnastic *
While this is the first time he’s talkg publicly the media about beg gay, he did post-retirement share news of his weddg, and he’s been g #gaypri regularly on Instagram. Hashtags asi, Ruggeri’s life on social media isn’t “Gay gay gay.
He offers a perspective of beg gay we simply don’t get a lot of, and one wh which many gay men will intify. “Boys beg homosexually abed by their gymnastics ach is an issue that has been rampant for many, many years and, as far as we’re ncerned, do not get the ‘prs’ needs to and should, ” Riegel wrote to USA Gymnastics last October.
Riegel’s own drive to bee an Olympian, to get out of Readg, his own fatuatn wh his growg fame, the screamg girls, the tograph seekers, his fear of how he would be viewed the often homophobic circl of his workg class neighborhood, were all hammers Moyer wield over him to pound down any threats of gog to the police, to his parents, anyone. ’ And he would make me somethg to eat, he’d go to his bedroom, he’d put on a vio on one of those old projector reels and I uld see out of the rner of my eye, a homosexual vio and he’d lay there and pleasure himself wh me at 11, 12, 13, right there the room on the uch which was pla sight of his bed. Riegel wouldn’t tell bee if he did people Southsi would thk he was gay, Moyer ntued, Riegel said.