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Walking out of the pool after winning his long-awaited gold medal, British diver Tom Daley declared his pride in being a gay man and also an Olympic champion, there were tears and full hearts across the nation. Let's talk about LGBT+ athletes. Daley has been a strong supporter of LGBTQ+ rights for years - his statement had a new joy and ease. With more publicly out athletes in these Olympics than in all other Games combined, Tokyo 2020 is being hailed as the Rainbow Olympics, and LGBTQ+ rights advocates hope its message of positive inclusion can have a lasting, global impact. . Turning point for LGBT+ athletes According to The Guardian , at least 172 LGBTQ+ athletes who have declared themselves to be part of the LGBTQ+ community are competing in Tokyo, more than triple the number in Rio 2016, according to Outsports.com, which celebrates the achievements of LGBTQ+ athletes. Tokyo: turning point for LGBT+ athletes Outsports had 23 publicly declared Olympians in London 2012 and 56 in Rio.
The United States tops the star table with the most people declared gay in 2021, while the Great Britain team takes bronze with 16 athletes declared gay. Outsports co-founder Cyd Zeigler says LGBTQ+ athletes in the Olympic village are contacting the site to ask to be added to the list, a drastic change from five years ago, when it was more likely to happen. otherwise. That really reflects the pride these athletes have in being LGBTQ. It is no longer something they Lithuania Phone Number want to hide, they want to be recognized as part of the community. It is clear that these really are the Rainbow Games. Cyd Zeigler, co-founder of Outsports. At Rio 2016, GB hockey team captain Kate Richardson-Walsh and her wife and teammate Helen made no secret of their relationship, having been together for years. But if the couple were competing now, they would have been even more frank and open, she says. When I heard Tom Daley talk at the press conference about being a proud gay man, and an Olympic gold medalist, I just thought: yes, absolutely yes. What a strong and powerful statement.
We certainly don't hide or keep things to ourselves. But I wonder if maybe we would have talked about it much more frankly now. Kate Richardson-Walsh, captain of the GB hockey team. The couple received "some negative things," she says, but emails from fans saying they had helped them be open about their sexuality "made it all worth it." Richardson-Walsh downplays the negatives, saying she and Helen may be seen as an "acceptable lesbian couple", but it emerges they included abuse on social media and writings condemning their life together sent via GB Hockey to his house. On one occasion, a taxi driver, not recognizing Richardson-Walsh, asked her if she didn't think it was wrong that the captain of the GB women's hockey team was in a relationship with one of her teammates. "I thought it was actually me she was talking about and I was in the back of her taxi, and I don't know if I feel safe enough to deal with this," she says. "Now I feel like I would be in a much better position to, non-aggressively, challenge him.
The United States tops the star table with the most people declared gay in 2021, while the Great Britain team takes bronze with 16 athletes declared gay. Outsports co-founder Cyd Zeigler says LGBTQ+ athletes in the Olympic village are contacting the site to ask to be added to the list, a drastic change from five years ago, when it was more likely to happen. otherwise. That really reflects the pride these athletes have in being LGBTQ. It is no longer something they Lithuania Phone Number want to hide, they want to be recognized as part of the community. It is clear that these really are the Rainbow Games. Cyd Zeigler, co-founder of Outsports. At Rio 2016, GB hockey team captain Kate Richardson-Walsh and her wife and teammate Helen made no secret of their relationship, having been together for years. But if the couple were competing now, they would have been even more frank and open, she says. When I heard Tom Daley talk at the press conference about being a proud gay man, and an Olympic gold medalist, I just thought: yes, absolutely yes. What a strong and powerful statement.
We certainly don't hide or keep things to ourselves. But I wonder if maybe we would have talked about it much more frankly now. Kate Richardson-Walsh, captain of the GB hockey team. The couple received "some negative things," she says, but emails from fans saying they had helped them be open about their sexuality "made it all worth it." Richardson-Walsh downplays the negatives, saying she and Helen may be seen as an "acceptable lesbian couple", but it emerges they included abuse on social media and writings condemning their life together sent via GB Hockey to his house. On one occasion, a taxi driver, not recognizing Richardson-Walsh, asked her if she didn't think it was wrong that the captain of the GB women's hockey team was in a relationship with one of her teammates. "I thought it was actually me she was talking about and I was in the back of her taxi, and I don't know if I feel safe enough to deal with this," she says. "Now I feel like I would be in a much better position to, non-aggressively, challenge him.