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There he was part of relay teams that broke school records. Surely they avoided him in the locker room or rooming on road trips. Subscribe to our Newsletter today. Strip down and suit up: Saturday, May 17, marks the latest National Learn to Swim Day.

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I had quite a long-term relationship with a girl, but after that ended I dated a guy in the U. Today, Gunn is totally out in his life — living in Cape Town, South Africa with his boyfriend and working at a new job. While Gunn was dating men and out to various people on the Kentucky swim team, his family nearly a half-world away in southern Africa had no idea he was gay at the time.

I had some really great relationships with girls over the years and really loved them. Today, he takes to the running trails more than the pool. The year-old Welsh swimmer, a double Olympian and multiple-time Commonwealth medalist, is saying goodbye to competitive swimming after the Paris Olympics, where he was the only openly gay male swimmer in the men’s competition—and one of just 20 out male athletes across the entire Games.

You can follow Sean Gunn on Instagram. Wait, Gunn found support after coming out in… Kentucky? Like so many elite athletes, Gunn had poured countless hours into training for his big moments on the international stage. Also like so many of those elite athletes, he was happy to walk away from competition and endless training.

That swimming career ended a year after the Olympics. I think in my head I built it up for so long, and I was terrified that the way they acted or treated me would be different. Sean Gunn came out later in life. He had represented the continent of Africa that is largely under-represented in the sport on the international stage.

Former UofL swimmer is the only openly gay man on the U.S. national team WHAS11 K subscribers Subscribed. But my team, and everyone who did know, was very supportive and happy for me. The post Coming Out: For gay Olympic swimmer, ‘I was lucky.

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But I was really lucky that everyone was so amazing and wanted me to be the happiest version of myself. Back to those personally memorable Olympics, Gunn competed in the much-heralded meter freestyle infinishing with his national record in the event : While that record has since been eclipsed, his meter freestyle national record from earlier in still holds today.

Now for the first time he publicly shares his story as a gay Olympian who competed at the NCAA level. Story by Cyd Zeigler. Our weekly playbook is packed with everything from locker room chatter to pressing LGBTQ sports issues. It was also at Kentucky where Gunn came to realize and accept that he was gay.

Medal or not, competing at the Olympic Games meant the world to Gunn. Two-time Olympian and time national champion Dan Jervis, one of the sport's first openly gay elite male swimmers, has retired aged Dan Jervis is hanging up his goggles, but he’s doing it with pride, joy, and zero regrets.