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August 3, 2012
London Olympics gets first out lesbian medalist

German Judith Arndt won silver in the cycling time trial, and will be wanting another in the women's team pursuit

German Judith Arndt has become the first lesbian athlete to win a medal at the London Olympic Games, and will fight for another today and tomorrow (3-4 August).

After coming 37th in the cycling road race, Arndt stormed to silver in the time trial held on Wednesday (1 August).

Speaking to Cycling News, she said: ‘I'm really happy with the silver medal.

July 27, 2012
Documentary on gay Olympic legend Greg Louganis in the works

Back on Board chronicles his winning gold at Seoul Olympics while secretly HIV positive

As a high school student, Greg Louganis won a silver medal in diving at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Then eight years later in Los Angeles, he won two gold medals.

But it is his performance in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul that made him an Olympic diving legend. He hit his head on the diving board during the springboard preliminaries, required stitches, but still managed to come back and win gold medals in that event and in the platform diving.

February 29, 2012
Olympic countdown: Gay heroes in Speedos

Will we see openly gay and lesbian athletes competing at the 2012 London Olympics?

Although the Olympic charter commits the International Olympic Committee: 'To act against any form of discrimination affecting the Olympic Movement’; and 'To encourage and support the development of sport for all’, it is widely documented that gay men and lesbians are grossly under-represented at this elite level (it is believed that at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, only 0.1% of athletes were openly gay or lesbian).

January 29, 2012
Facebook campaign for Louganis

Facebook campaign for Greg Louganis to appear on popular TV show

In 2010, Olympian Greg Louganis told People magazine he wanted to be a contestant on the reality show 'Dancing with the Stars.' His fans have not forgotten that, and created a Facebook page to petition the show's producers to include him in next season's lineup.