{"id":14831,"date":"2020-07-26T07:54:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T07:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/?p=14831"},"modified":"2020-08-11T11:25:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T11:25:39","slug":"gay-black-and-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/gay-black-and-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay, black… and fast!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Olympic Games in Tokyo would have started on 24 July – if the Corona virus had not made it necessary that the Games would be postponed by one year. Michael Gunning would certainly have been right at the start at the opening ceremony.<\/p>\n

Born in 1994, Gunning is openly gay. And uses his dual citizenship to draw attention to homophobia in Jamaica.<\/p>\n

Already at school he “felt completely different”, Gunning recently announced in an interview with the Thomson Reuters Foundation. But it would take several years before he realised why. During this time, swimming had been a practical distraction from dealing with being gay. “Since I was not prepared to deal with my inner feelings, I put all that effort into swimming and made a good junior career out of it.”<\/p>\n

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Arrived safely in South Africa \ud83c\udf34\ud83c\uddff\ud83c\udde6\u270c\ud83c\udffe Ready for training camp part 2 in the sun & putting some more graft\/hard work under my belt \ud83d\udd25\ud83c\udfca\ud83c\udffe\u200d\u2642\ufe0f xx<\/a><\/p>\n

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