Inside Out: Straight Talk from a Gay Jock
Mark Tewksbury is best known as a gold-medal-winning Olympic swimmer. His remarkable sixteen-year athletic career included three Olympic medals, numerous world records, and inductions into three major halls of fame: the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame, the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame, and the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
Although retired as an athlete, Tewksbury rema
...moreHardcover, 262 pages
Published
April 14th 2006
by John Wiley & Sons
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An inspiration for gay, aspiring athletes, and a challenge for similarly-oriented, marquee athletes to do the same
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I doubt there is a gay person out there who can not relate to Mark Tewksbury’s autobiography, “Inside out: Straight Talk from a Gay Jock” [Wiley, 1 edition, 2007]. That is, until he was propelled into international prominence with his 1992, Olympic gold medal performance in Barcelona, Spain...more
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I doubt there is a gay person out there who can not relate to Mark Tewksbury’s autobiography, “Inside out: Straight Talk from a Gay Jock” [Wiley, 1 edition, 2007]. That is, until he was propelled into international prominence with his 1992, Olympic gold medal performance in Barcelona, Spain...more
Life story, largely about how his life was impacted by the fact that he was gay in a straight world. For this reason, the appeal may be to a select audience. Setting personality aside, I certainly related to much of what was said about the feeling that "if people really knew me they would not allow me in". Even after one knows better, the internalization of that thinking is hard to erase. Despite all he has accomplished, he still seems to see himself as peripheral, and the psycho-s...more
Interested in the Olympics, this is a good book for you. Follow Mark's career from the beginning through the controversies of the 90's and the "change" in Olympic leadership. His story is moving, the writing is not great but there is a story that deserves telling.
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