Olympic diver Timo Barthel isn’t ‘gay’ or ‘straight,’ but ‘human’ - Outsports

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• THERE ARE A RERD 11 OPENLY GAY MALE OLYMPIANS R. NONE IS AN AMERIN.
• IS TOM DALEY GAY? HE'S A DIVER, SO HE MT BE
• ATHLET WHO ARE GAY
• SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE FALLY UNLOCKED PUZZLE OF WHY PEOPLE ARE GAY
• WATCH: THE BT FROM 6 OLYMPIC GAY DIVERS
• THIS OLYMPIC DIVER DON’T INTIFY AS ‘GAY’ OR ‘STRAIGHT,’ BUT ‘HUMAN’
• DIVER TOM DALEY WS GOLD: 'I AM A GAY MAN AND ALSO AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN'
• U.S. DIVER ADOPTED OM CAMBODIA AND RAISED BY A GAY DAD HOP TO SPIRE OTHERS
• NEW ZEALAND’S FIRST OLYMPIC DIVER 37 YEARS IS OUT AND PROUDLY GAY

THERE ARE A RERD 11 OPENLY GAY MALE OLYMPIANS R. NONE IS AN AMERIN.

Barthel is divg for Germany and do not classify himself as gay or straight but simply intifi as “human. He was adopted om Cambodia at 18 months, and his adoptive father, Jerry, is gay. In addn, Wdle has ntributed to the It Gets Better mpaign and was mentored om an early age by gay divg legend Greg Louganis—to the pot where he was nicknamed “The Ltle Louganis.

He’s one of the bt and most important stori of the Tokyo Gam after wng his first gold medal Men’s Synchro wh divg partner Matty Lee and spirg lns by clarg, “I feel credibly proud to say I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn. In R, Tokyo, there are at least 181 publicly out gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, queer and genr-nonnformg athlet, acrdg to the webse Outsports, which specialis LGBTQ sports news. ”Canadian swimmer Mark Thormeyer peted R, but wasn’t until four years later, 2020, that he me out as gay.

IS TOM DALEY GAY? HE'S A DIVER, SO HE MT BE

“Competg at the Olympics as an openly gay athlete is pretty amazg, ” Thormeyer told Outsports. ‘I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn’Brish diver Tom Daley, 27, me out as gay 2013. “I feel credibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn, ” Daley told reporters.

ATHLET WHO ARE GAY

“I feel credibly proud to say I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn. ”Snrs, who me out to her mother third gra and has scribed herself as a “Flamg Gay” on social media, told reporters she above all wanted to be herself and “not apologise” succs Tokyo after difficult years, when she stggled wh prsn and ntemplated suici.

At least 186 publicly out gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, queer and nonbary athlet were Tokyo for the Summer Olympic Gam, more than triple the number who participated at the 2016 R Gam.

“Competg at the Olympics as an openly gay athlete is pretty amazg, ” Canadian swimmer Mark Thormeyer told Outsports. Thormeyer was not out when he peted at the 2016 R Olympics and me out publicly as gay a 2020 say for Outsports.

SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE FALLY UNLOCKED PUZZLE OF WHY PEOPLE ARE GAY

Elissa Alarie (Canada)#Brt Benn (Canada)#Kelly Brazier (New Zealand)Gayle Broughton (New Zealand)#Isadora Cello (Brazil) Lren Doyle (USA)#Mara Fravanti (Brazil)#Megan Jon (Bra)Alev Kelter (USA)Ghislae Landry (Canada)#Kaili Lan (Canada)#Celia Quansah (Bra)Kristen Thomas (USA)Ruby Tui (New Zealand)#Sharni Williams (Atralia)Portia Woodman (New Zealand).

When the Olympics start this weekend R Janeiro, there will be a rerd 41 publicly out gay, lbian and bisexual athlet.

Includ this total are a rerd 11 gay male athlet. Diver Patrick Jefey was openly gay as a diver the 1996 Olympics. Here's a fact: In the entire history of the Olympics, there has never been an openly gay male gymnast.

WATCH: THE BT FROM 6 OLYMPIC GAY DIVERS

We've had a gay thlete, nner, hurdler and high jumper, among others.

Yet gymnastics, along wh divg, has been wily perceived as a "gay" sport, while the same is not said for track and field. Hence, the emails I have gotten askg whether Brish diver Tom Daley is gay (Not that I know of). Matthew Mcham om Atralia is the only openly gay diver London.

THIS OLYMPIC DIVER DON’T INTIFY AS ‘GAY’ OR ‘STRAIGHT,’ BUT ‘HUMAN’

Gay men do like watchg gymnastics and divg, for obv reasons. And divg at least, we have had petors who were gay while petg or me out after. Both sports are also perceived as beg more tolerant of gay participants.

It uld be that gay athlet self-select for certa sports, avoidg some seen as beg ls fans assume certa sports are gay. ”Part of the reason for the "divg is gay" stereotype are the swimsus, the tight Speedo variety that no straight Amerin du would be ught ad . There is even as Inter meme "Olympics or gay porn?

DIVER TOM DALEY WS GOLD: 'I AM A GAY MAN AND ALSO AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN'

" that foc almost exclively on men's divg, wh Tom Daley ont and stereotyp are by their nature oversimplified, hence the ia that divers and gymnasts are gay, while weightlifters and water polo players are not. Nothg gay about football.

Yet, the late folklorist Alan Duns wrote a famo paper the 1970s that argued that football "providg as do a socially sanctned amework for male body ntact … is a form of homosexual behavr. The stigma of llg somethg gay has lost some of s stg and even we n get on the act as this SB Natn, Cyd and I did attt to. Jt be aware that gay athlet are every sport, so never assume.

Thanks to the proment athlet who are gay, the sports world is beg more and more acceptg of homosexual players. Who is the most famo gay athlete? Football star Michael Sam ma headl 2014 when he beme the first openly gay athlete to be drafted to the NFL.

U.S. DIVER ADOPTED OM CAMBODIA AND RAISED BY A GAY DAD HOP TO SPIRE OTHERS

But he fely wasn’t the first homosexual athlete to fd succs.

Olympic diver Greg Louganis is openly gay.

NEW ZEALAND’S FIRST OLYMPIC DIVER 37 YEARS IS OUT AND PROUDLY GAY

NBA player Jason Colls me out as gay an terview wh Sports Illtrated magaze 2013. He was the first active athlete to e out as gay any of the major Amerin sports. His announcement provoked mixed reactns om his fellow players and the you surprised that so many profsnal athlet are gay?