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“On the outside I was no different from anyone I knew. On the inside I fought back the knowledge that I was different in one inescapably essential way” - Betty Berzon (qtd. in Outing Yourself)

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Ohio State NCAA wrestling champion Mike Pucillo comes out as gay - LGBTQ Nation

Ohio State’s Mike Pucillo was a three-time All-American and 2008 NCAA Division I Wrestling Champion at Ohio State.

Thomas Robert "Tom" Daley (born 21 May 1994) is an English diver and television personality. Daley specialises in the 10 metre platform event and was the 2009 FINA World Champion in the individual event at the age of 15. He represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics where he was Britain's youngest competitor. Daley reached a career best ranking of number one in the FINA World Diving Rankings for the ten-metre platform. Tom Daley Diving, Dani Alves, Guys In Speedos, Tom Daley, Team Gb, Hot Ones, 6 Pack Abs, Michael Phelps, Sports Figures

Thomas Robert "Tom" Daley (born 21 May 1994) is an English diver and television personality. Daley specialises in the 10 metre platform event and was the 2009 FINA World Champion in the individual event at the age of 15. He represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics where he was Britain's youngest competitor. Daley reached a career best ranking of number one in the FINA World Diving Rankings for the ten-metre platform.

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Jason Collins signed a 10-day contract today with the Brooklyn Nets, making the 35-year-old center the first openly gay player in the NBA. He will make his return to the court tonight in the Nets’ matchup against the L.A. Lakers at Staples Center.

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German Soccer Star Thomas Hitzlsperger Comes Out As Gay

Thomas Hitzlsperger (born 5 April 1982) is a German former footballer who played as a midfielder. He spent the early part of his career playing for Aston Villa in England, before returning to Germany to play for Stuttgart, where he won the Bundesliga in 2007. In 2010 he signed for Italian side Lazio, before moving back to England to join West Ham United later that year. On 8 January 2014, he became the most high-profile footballer to come out as gay to date.[

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Scott Norton (born February 18, 1982) is a left-handed American professional bowler and attorney. He won the 2012 PBA Chameleon Championship in Las Vegas. Norton, who is openly gay, shared a celebratory kiss with his husband Craig Woodward, making it quite possibly the first time a professional athlete has kissed his or her same sex partner on national television.

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Stephen Rhodes, a long-time late-model stock competitor, also had a stint with an underfunded NASCAR Camping World Truck Series team more than a decade ago. Like many aspiring drivers, most of his life had centered on racing. That changed in 2010, when he took some time off to help his partner open a restaurant in his hometown of Goldsboro, N.C. Through a lot of hard work and perseverance, the restaurant has flourished, allowing Stephen to once again think about his greatest passion - racing.

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Ex-Basketball Star Will Sheridan Comes Out As Gay

Will Sheridan graduated from Villanova, where he was a starter for the men's basketball team. "I'm trying to have a voice, and I want that voice to reach as many people as it can," told ESPN when coming out in 2011. "I mean, look at me. I'm black. I'm gay. I'm like a quadruple minority, and I feel like a little piece of me resides in everybody. Maybe there's a kid out there who doesn't think he's OK, and he can look at me and say, 'OK, he played college basketball.

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Vicky Galindo

When softball player Vicky Galindo came out as bisexual in The Advocate, she was on her way to the Beijing Olympics. She returned from China with a silver medal and the admiration of her teammates, including Lauren Lappin, who said Galindo’s openness gave her the courage to come out herself.

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Out gymnast Josh Dixon started with the sport at age 7 because his sisters were involved, but he showed great promise. He excelled at Stanford, where he was a team champion in 2009 and 2010, as well as a floor exercise champ in 2010. Dixon missed his chance to make the Olympic team in 2012 but is now on the U.S. national team.

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Sherri Murrell. Portland State University is the only Division I college with an openly gay head coach for women's basketball, Sherri Murrell. Since coming out, Murrell says she has become a better coach, and she constantly works toward breaking barriers for women in athletics. “Women’s sports has always been labeled as lesbian, and many try to combat that,” Murrell told The Advocate in 2011.

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Rudy Galindo overcame an impoverished childhood in Mexico to become U.S. figure skating’s first openly gay champion in 1996. Galindo, who’s HIV-positive, was just inducted into the Figure Skating Hall of Fame in December. International Figure Skating honored Galindo among 'The 25 Most Influential Names In Figure Skating 2000-2001.' IFS cited Galindo's work as spokesman for the National Minority AIDS Council and for the American Foundation for AIDS Research.

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Australian doubles champion Rennae Stubbs represented her home country in four Olympic games (1996, 2000, 2004, and 2008). She’s the winner of 60 Grand Slam matches, including taking the top spot in the Australian Open in 2000, the U.S. Open and Wimbledon in 2001, and Wimbledon again in 2004. She is the longest serving member of the Australia Fed Cup team, for which she played 17 years. Stubbs came out publicly in a 2006 article in The Sydney Morning Herald.

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Chris Morgan is successful. He was the world's #2 ranked [in 2005] powerlifter by the World Drug Free Powerlifting Federation (WDFPF) and was the #1 ranked lifter in all of Great Britain by the British Drug Free Powerlifting Association (BDFPA) and was the 2005 British Champion. He placed second in the World Championships in Atlanta in November 2004 and has been to three consecutive British Finals.

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Pia Sundhage was the head coach of the Swedish women’s national team, and then the head coach of the U.S. Women’s team from 2008 to 2012. She led the team to two Olympic gold medals and a second-place finish in a close one against Japan the 2011 World Cup. She was named the 2012 FIFA World Coach of the Year for her efforts. Before becoming a coach, she was a player for her home country, Sweden. In January 2010 she outed herself during an interview with a Swedish television show.

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