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Swimming Champion Tom Luchsinger Comes Out, Indiana Pastor Arrested For Sexual Assault: Today In Gay

After years as "the king of the double life," U.S. swimming champion Tom Luchsinger has come out as gay.

In a piece in Outsports, the 23-year-old Marylander discusses trying to pray away the gay, and feeling "worthless [and] unaccomplished," despite 12 ACC Medals, three All-American Trophies, and being named ACC Men's 2013 Swimmer of the Year.

He threw himself into training and school to distract him from an inner voice that shouted "You're a fag. You're a queen. You're undeserving of love." Success in the pool compounded his anxiety.

Whenever I posted anything on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook, I would read it over 10, 15, 20 times to make sure no one could infer anything about my sexuality. Whenever I was interviewed I would watch the online clips over and over again to make sure I seemed masculine. I seemed fully confident in front of the media, coaches, parents and teammates but completely inadequate, worthless and insecure behind closed doors.

After under-performing at the FINA World Championships this summer, Luchsinger realizd something had to change, and began coming out to teammates, friends and his parents.

"My friendships have gotten stronger because of my self acceptance... I laugh a lot more," he writes. "I have found qualities—both physical and emotional—that I like about myself, though that's still a work in progress." He jokes he's the same person he's always been, "just a hell of a lot better at it."


Vitaly Milonov brought riot police with him to Central Station, a local gay hangout, and began checking IDs. Milonov said he found almost 20 teenage clubgoers "who were practically having sex on the stage,”, as well as a 15-year-old, who “saw what a 15-year-old should never see.”

Milonov escorted the minors to the police station.


The change comes more than a year after United States v. Windsor, the Supreme Court case that struck down the part of the Defense of Marriage Act that governed federal benefits.


The mayor of Seoul, South Korea, Park Won-soon, says he regrets not being able to include LGBT protections in the city's civil rights charter after a week-long sit in by queer activists from Rainbow Action at City Hall.

The coalition believes Won-soon, a former human-rights attorney, gave into pressure from Korea's powerful religious community.


We actually have anti-gay Republican Senators John Coryn and Ted Cruz to thank for Pittman's confirmation—they backed his nomination in June, and Cruz unintentionally sped up Pitman's confirmation last weekend when he forced the Senate back into session.

Currently a U.S. attorney for the Western District of Texas, Pitman will become one of ten LGBT judges on the federal level.


The unfortunately named Gaylard Williams—pastor at the Praise Cathedral Church of God in Seymour, Indiana—allegedly approached a 27-year-old man, reached into his car and grabbed and squeezed his genitals. He also requested oral sex from the man.

According to court documents, Williams, 59, took off after the victim acted like he was reaching for a gun. When police tracked down his license plate number, they found gay pornography in his car.

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