Contents:
- THIS GAY SWIMMER JT WON ANOTHER MEDAL & HE’S GUNNG FOR THE OLYMPICS
- GAY OLYMPICS SWIMMER MAK WAV AND OUT OF THE WATER
- TOM DALEY AFTER WNG GOLD: ‘I'M GAY AND AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN'
- OLYMPIC SWIMMER PERFORMED AT HIS PEAK AFTER G OUT AS GAY
THIS GAY SWIMMER JT WON ANOTHER MEDAL & HE’S GUNNG FOR THE OLYMPICS
Nick is only out gay swimmer on the U. Though he says he’s been out to iends and fay for years, Nick publicly me out as gay Febary.
GAY OLYMPICS SWIMMER MAK WAV AND OUT OF THE WATER
In a TV terview, he said he wants to show other young gay swimmers they’re not alone. Sce g out, Nick says the reactn has been nothg but posive–showg that gay people belong the pool.
In May, the openly gay Fnish swimmer won the 50-meter etyle at the European champnships, ls than three months before he is set to swim the same race, along wh the 100-meter etyle, Tokyo. But was jt before the 2014 Wter Olympics Sochi, Rsia, (where they obvly don’t have swimmg) where the 6-10 Fn ma his biggt splash, when he me out as gay.
“I wanted to jo the discsn relatn to Sochi, sce is a sad fact that the Rsian gay law affects negatively Rsian young people’s liv and g human rights general, he told the Fnish Natnal TV Channel YLE’s “Sports Weekend” show at the time. The victory was pecially meangful for Daley his send Olympics as an openly gay man.
TOM DALEY AFTER WNG GOLD: ‘I'M GAY AND AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN'
"I feel credibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn, " said Daley who was visibly emotnal. Daley's Amerin-born hband won a screenwrg Osr 2008 for “Milk, " the bgraphil film based on the life of gay rights activist and polician Harvey Milk.
Olympic swimmer performed at his peak after g out as gay. It was the secret I was keepg — that I was gay.
When I first moved to this trag group September 2015, I wanted to keep a secret that I was gay for multiple reasons.
OLYMPIC SWIMMER PERFORMED AT HIS PEAK AFTER G OUT AS GAY
I always wanted them to know I was gay, but now I was ready for them to know. After g out to his teammat as gay 2016, Mark Thormeyer swam better than before and qualified for the R Olympics. The Olympics were a tly amazg experience and beg able to pete and celebrate them as an openly gay athlete ma all the more enjoyable.
Comg out to the team tght me to be fortable my own sk regardls of beg different or gay. I’ve also cid to jo Team Canada’s OneTeam, which promot LGBT+ cln sport, bee I want to share my story and be able to spread the msage that ’s OK to be gay. He went on to w the gold medal and bee the first man to w back-to-back Olympic golds both the sprgboard and platform divg what had ially appeared to be a straightforward eback story beme more plited when Louganis revealed seven years later that he was gay and that he had been diagnosed wh HIV six months before the 1988 Gam.
”She adds that “ 1988, there’s an assumptn that Olympians are jt not gay... But there was still no effective treatment, people were dyg by the thoands and many Amerins wrongly believed was only a “gay man’s disease.