This is me by ian thorpe6/23/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() A little bit of ego comes into it." He said that since coming out he was received nothing but love and support from his family. Thorpe was asked about his outright denials about being gay, and said, "The lie became so big that I didn't want people to question my integrity. ![]() Part of me didn't know if Australia wanted its champion to be gay." "I wanted to make people proud, I wanted to make my family proud, I wanted to make my nation proud. "I was trying to be what I thought was the right athlete by other people's standards," Thorpe said. Thorpe said he only became comfortable discussing the issue with family and close friends "the past two weeks." "If I had the chance to deck all those people, I'd be in jail by now," he said, adding that the slurs drove him deeper into the closet. At times, he said he was subjected to homophobic slurs and often called a "faggot" in the street. In the interview, Thorpe, 31, said the questions about his sexual orientation started 15 years ago and he spent those years either evading the question or denying he was gay. "Part of me didn't know if Australia wanted its champion to be gay." -Ian Thorpe ![]()
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