Mcham will forever be celebrated as the first out gay Olympic gold medalist, but he jt add another big "first" to his long list of acplishments.
Contents:
- 'I FEEL VERY EMPOWERED': DIVER TOM DALEY DISCS BEG OPENLY GAY AFTER WNG GOLD
- TOM DALEY IS DAMN PROUD TO BE AN OPENLY GAY OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST
- CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: OUT GAY DIVER MATTHEW MCHAM WS OLYMPIC GOLD
- DIVER TOM DALEY WS GOLD: 'I AM A GAY MAN AND ALSO AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN'
- 5 TIM OPENLY GAY DIVER MATTHEW MCHAM SLAYED, AND OUT OF HIS SPEEDOS
'I FEEL VERY EMPOWERED': DIVER TOM DALEY DISCS BEG OPENLY GAY AFTER WNG GOLD
Tom Daley and his divg partner, Matty Lee, brought home a gold medal for Team Great Bra Monday on the synchronized 10-meter platform dive, and the victory was pecially meangful for Daley his send Olympics as an openly gay me out a YouTube vio 2013 shortly after he began datg his now-hband, Dt Lance Black. "I feel credibly proud to say that I’m a gay man and also an Olympic champn, " Daley said via the Olympic News Service after wng gold.
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TOM DALEY IS DAMN PROUD TO BE AN OPENLY GAY OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST
But they n certaly thank openly gay Brish diver Tom Daley, 27, who won Olympic gold on Monday after a 13-year pursu. Followg his victory, Daley spoke at a prs nference about beg an openly gay Olympian. “I feel credibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn, ” Daley Lance Black, Daley’s hband and the Osr-wng screenwrer of Milk, praised his hband’s victory on Twter.
Today, we revis Augt 23, 2008, the day Beijg, Cha, when an out gay man won a gold medal at the Olympic Summer Gam. What Mcham’s w means to gays everywhere. An openly gay male athlete won an Olympic gold medal.
CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: OUT GAY DIVER MATTHEW MCHAM WS OLYMPIC GOLD
By wng the gold medal the men’s 10-meter platform divg, Mcham stck a goln blow for gay people everywhere who’ve been told they’re flawed or not good enough, pecially the athletic arena. For all the gay men who have been lled weak, sissi, pansi, too emotnal, not tough enough to pete sports, that fal dive was for you.
Wh his glor fal round of six div, the 20-year-old Atralian beme the most signifint openly gay male athlete ever (out lbians such as Marta Navratilova and Ameile Mrmo have won their fair share of tl).
Watchg the divg all week, I would bet my life savgs that Mcham was not the only gay man on the sprgboard or platform. And Greg Louganis, also gay and wner of multiple gold medals, is nsired the greatt diver ever. Never before have gay sports fan been able to watch a man they know is gay w such a major sportg event; no need for gaydar wh Matthew.
DIVER TOM DALEY WS GOLD: 'I AM A GAY MAN AND ALSO AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN'
His story ronat bee ’s universal for lns of people, pecially for many who are gay: Stgglg wh prsn, his sexualy and posssg a rebell streak and a taste for partyg for a kid who was not sure he f (he might have been the only diver Beijg to have a pierced tongue). He has unrstandably said that he do not want to be known as the “gay diver. ” “Beg gay and divg are pletely separate parts of my life, ” he told journalists after wng the gold.
Of urse, that is the attu he should take, but he has bee a role mol for gays everywhere, whether active sports or not, simply by beg the way he is. Mcham’s succs will not e a flood of gay athlet to sudnly e out.
Mcham, though, n act as a symbol that one n be openly gay and yet still sle the heights of their sport.
5 TIM OPENLY GAY DIVER MATTHEW MCHAM SLAYED, AND OUT OF HIS SPEEDOS
Matthew Mcham, out and proud gay man. Bra’s Tom Daley got his long-awaed gold medal divg on Monday at the Tokyo Olympics and livered an spirg msage to his gay fans.
“I hope that any young LGBT person out there n see that no matter how alone you feel right now, you are not alone and that you n achieve anythg and there is a whole lot of your chosen fay out here ready to support you, ” said Daley, who paired wh Matty Lee to pture the men’s synchronized 10-meter, who won bronze the dividual 10-meter platform London 2012 and a bronze the synchronized platform R 2016, clared:“I feel credibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn. Atralian diver Matthew Mcham will forever be celebrated as the first out gay Olympic gold medalist, but the now-retired athlete jt add another big “first” to his long list of acplishments. He out publicly as gay, then stuns Beijg wh a perfect dive.
It also ma him the first out gay Olympic gold medalist. It was wonrful to see him such fe form, and while he n’t have been thrilled to lose his signature 10 m platform event to a then-closeted Tom Daley, Mcham’s succs as an openly gay diver no doubt set the stage for Daley and many more gay athlet to e out.