Though she did not identify her sexuality, Didrikson Zaharias was described as a lesbian. Won two gold medals and one silver medal in one Olympic Games. He did but, ultimately, was imprisoned in Mauthausen concentration camp until its liberation in 1945. Sentenced to 18 months in prison, he was released early on the condition that he renounce his involvement in sports. In the 1930s, he was arrested by the Nazis for his homosexuality. Peltzer was openly gay, though this was not widely known. ĭescribed as 'reportedly bisexual' during her career, Löwy remained unmarried. The ban was rescinded but reinstated in the 1920s, saying that his 'opinions and conduct' were the reason for the ban, which then extended to being excluded from some locker and shower rooms. Rovsing was openly gay within his sport and this was accepted the Danish Football Association, which administed tennis at the time, however, felt his sexuality was at conflict with the working-class ideals of their sport, and in 1917 used evidence of other men visiting Rovsing's home to ban him from competing. His biographers suggest that, despite his support for the party the German occupation of Denmark and the outing, Bukh never knew of the Nazi stance on homosexuality. In part, his support came from Adolf Hitler being a personal fan and inviting Bukh to be part of his propaganda (displaying the ideal male aesthetic) for the 1936 Games in Berlin. He was out, though not widely he was outed internationally by a former partner after expressing support for the Nazis.

īukh was selected to the 1908 Olympic team, but did not compete, and then was coach of the gold-medal winning 1912 gymnastics team. After his success, he moved to the city to teach though rumors of him being gay were prevalent, and may be the reason he was fired from his teaching job, it was only confirmed by family after his death. Louis, but Poage felt it important that he compete. Black activists wanted a boycott of the 1904 Games in which Poage competed, as crowds would be segregated in St. The first African-American Olympic medalist, Poage was also gay.

Around the time of his Games appearance in 1900, Montesquiou was noted to feel stifled by the aristocracy he had been born into, which was 'fundamentally conservative'. He won a bronze medal in the Hacks and hunter combined equestrian event in 1900 prior to 1996, the event was not consistently considered to have been truly Olympic, but is since included. Montesquiou was a 'notorious homosexual', with this influence discussed, though he may have lived a chaste life.

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