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9780470837351

Inside Out : Straight Talk from a Gay Jock

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    9780470837351

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    0470837357

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-04-07
  • Publisher: Wiley

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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

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