Gay swimmers olympic

Abrahm Devine is a university swimmer who used to be a member of the Stanford University swim team and was the NCAA Champion in the individual medley. He also repped Tonga in the Olympics. There have been modern Olympians [a] (including Paralympians, Summer Olympic athletes and artists, and Winter Olympians) who have identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, pansexual, non-binary, and/or queer, or who have openly been in a same-sex relationship.

Dan Jervis Olympic swimmer

Check out what we wrote about him back in Mark Foster Boyfriend. His teammates were, apparently very supportive. I casually said that I had never been on a date with a guy before and I was kind of scared of it. Mark Foster is a big name in the swim world as he boasts of a total of 19 gold medals from the World Championships, European Championships, and the Commonwealth Games.

This was my moment. Last updated: March 10, at pm. The year-old was the only out gay competitor in men’s swimming at the Games and one of just 20 men among the athletes on Outsports’ Team LGBTQ roster. Jervis, who came out as gay inis a British swimmer who competes in the meter and meter freestyle events.

He claims that he was dropped from the team because he is gay but the team coach denies the charge but did not explain why he was excluded.

List of LGBTQ swimmers

Amini Fonua represents the tiny Pacific nation of Tonga in international meets and has bagged three gold medals from the Pacific Games and two golds from the Oceania Swimming Championships. Michael Gunning represented Jamaica in the and World Aquatics Championships and currently holds the Jamaican national records for the metre butterfly, metre freestyle and metre freestyle.

First up in our list is Canadian swimmer Markus Thormeyer who recently came out in an article on outsports. Mark Tewksbury is another gay male swimmer who can boast of winning several medals from international meets.