Inside Out : Straight Talk from a Gay Jock

by Tewksbury, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780470840863
• ISBN10: 0470840862
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-21
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

"To reach the pinnacle of Olympic swimming takes incredible dedication, resilience and courage that few possess. To reach your true self takes these attributers and a great deal more courage so, therefore, even fewer arrive at this point into heir lives. mark Tewksbury is one of these courageous people who achieve so much and through pain,k, suffering, daring, and pure fight, become who they truly are, inside and out." - Duncan Armstrong O.A.M., Australian Olympic Swimming Legend "Because it has such an hones and unabashed self-reflective voice, Inside Out needs to be in every school library, from elementary grades to grad schools." - Laura Robinson, The Globe and Mail

Author Biography

Mark Tewksbury (Montreal, PQ) won a gold medal in swimming in the 1992 Barcelona Olymics. He’s been inducted into the Canadian Hall of Fame and has appeared on the cover of Time.

Table of Contents

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