Gay swimming
Competitive Swimmers Who Are LGBTQ
Competitive swimming is a high profile sport in organized competitions and its successful athletes are equally high profile. So how does the LGBTQ community fit into this sport?
Despite its image of a relatively straightforward and non-impact sport, the competitive swimming world is individualistic with a very macho, gender-binary, testosterone-driven homophobia. This assessment can be drawn from the many autobiographies and memoirs written by out LGBTQ individuals who detail the agony they had in the closet prior to coming out. The notion of catching AIDS by swimming in the matching water as an infected individual is an infamous example of ignorance surrounding this disease in the sport. Strict bathing suit styles and locker room dynamics play a large role in the culture of the sport.
To counter this hostile environment, many local LGBTQ swim clubs have been formed with numerous inter-club competitive events, especially at the Masters level of competition. The success of the Gay Games has been a big boost to LGBTQ competitive participat
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