Inside Out : Straight Talk from a Gay Jock

by Tewksbury, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780470837351
• ISBN10: 0470837357
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-04-07
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

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 remains a highly respected public figure. He delivered prized swimming analysis for the CBC from the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, hosts the Discovery Channel's popular How It's Made show, and is Co-President of the first World Outgames, Montreal 2006.Tewksbury has spoken to millions as part of his eighteen-year speaking career and remains much in demand as an inspirational speaker to companies and organizations around the world. For his active humanitarianism, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Western Ontario in 2001, and in 2005 Tewksbury was awarded the International Person of the Year Award at S?o Paulo Pride in Brazil. He currently lives in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.For more on Mark Tewksbury, please visit www.MarkTewksbury.com "To reach the pinnacle of Olympic Swimming takes incredible dedication, resilience and courage that few possess. To reach your true self takes these attributes and a great deal more courage so, therefore, even fewer arrive at this point in their lives. Mark Tewksbury is one of these courageous people who achieve so much and through pain, suffering, daring, and pure fight, become who they truly are, inside and out." --Duncan Armstrong O.A.M., Australian Olympic Swimming Legend

Author Biography

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 remains a highly respected public figure. He delivered prized swimming analysis for the CBC from the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, hosts the Discovery Channel’s popular How It’s Made show, and is Co-President of the first World Outgames, Montreal 2006.
Tewksbury has spoken to millions as part of his eighteen-year speaking career and remains much in demand as an inspirational speaker to companies and organizations around the world. For his active humanitarianism, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Western Ontario in 2001, and in 2005 Tewksbury was awarded the International Person of the Year Award at São Paulo Pride in Brazil. He currently lives in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
For more on Mark Tewksbury, please visit www.MarkTewksbury.com

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
Acknowledgements	xvii
Childhood Secrets	1	(20)
Grandma's Closet	1	(5)
Connecting the Dots	6	(4)
Barbie in the Bathtub	10	(5)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show	15	(6)
See Mark Run	21	(14)
The Three Musketeers	21	(3)
A Kiss of Fate	24	(5)
Fag	29	(6)
Playing Straight	35	(16)
The Walk of Shame	35	(4)
The Back-up Plan	39	(3)
WOW: The Women of the World	42	(3)
Three's Company	45	(6)
Fairly Straight Forward	51	(16)
Say It Isn't So	51	(3)
The Morality Clause	54	(3)
Do the Hustle	57	(2)
The Ready Room	59	(8)
BAM!	67	(14)
The Guy from Time	67	(2)
Happily Ever After	69	(3)
A Day to Remember	72	(4)
The Train Derailed	76	(5)
Post-Olympic Depression	81	(14)
My Last Hope	81	(4)
Rock Bottom	85	(3)
An Unlikely Turner Point	88	(7)
One-Way Ticket to Australia	95	(14)
Queen of the Desert	95	(5)
From Hero to Zero	100	(2)
Cracking the Closet	102	(3)
Sex Ed	105	(4)
Seduction	109	(16)
Princely Intervention	109	(2)
Politics of Power	111	(3)
Site Selection	114	(4)
Blame It on Rio	118	(7)
Rupture	125	(14)
Point of No Return	125	(3)
A Welcome Kiss	128	(2)
Get Home Now	130	(4)
Give Me a Sign	134	(5)
Steps to Freedom	139	(14)
Tattooed Blond Barbie	139	(3)
Dreading Weddings	142	(4)
Speaking about Out	146	(3)
Winter Garden Debut	149	(4)
Enough	153	(14)
Learn to Let Go	153	(4)
Rumors and Innuendo	157	(5)
The Media Circus	162	(5)
Outspoken	167	(16)
The Samaranch Avalanche	167	(5)
No Regrets	172	(5)
An OATH to Reform	177	(6)
Finding Out	183	(14)
Television with Borders	183	(3)
Summer Garden Debut	186	(3)
Intolerable	189	(4)
Anything but Fab	193	(4)
Valued	197	(16)
Dr. Tewksbury	197	(3)
Montreal Calling	200	(3)
The Johannesburg Decision	203	(5)
Get Real	208	(5)
Wake-Up	213	(14)
Kentucky Fried Mark	213	(3)
Halloween Drag, Christmas Doll	216	(3)
Two Become One	219	(2)
The Real Deal	221	(6)
Growing Pains	227	(16)
The Showdown in Chicago	227	(5)
The 1st World Outgames	232	(5)
Olympic Peer Power	237	(2)
The Pink Triangle	239	(4)
Full Circle	243	(12)
Athens Rocked	243	(4)
The Boomerang Curveball	247	(2)
Home Sweet Homo	249	(6)
Index	255