More Lifesavers with Pride! #3

More Lifesavers with Pride! #2

More Lifesavers with Pride! Post 150

This month, CBS News on Logo interviewed Lifesavers with Pride at the Sydney Gay Mardi Gras. (click on this link to see the video on the Lifesavers with Pride blog.)

This seemed an appropriate moment to revisit Sydney's out and proud gay lifesavers, who according to this month's CBS story now number more than 90 trained lifesavers.

WetSpeedos last posted on my discovery of 18-month-old the Lifesavers with Pride blog in March, with this blog's 100th post.

Here are some photos from a recent DNA Magazine photo shoot with Lifesavers with Pride. Credit goes to the blog aussielicious for the alert on this DNA Magazine coverage. Also, I'm posting a bunch of photos from the Lifesavers with Pride blog.

A second post follows.

A Few More Ironmen Swimmers (from Kona?)

Blond Triathlete at Kona

Finneye Feature: Fine Wet Rear

From Finneye's latest swimming photoset on Flickr.

NCAA Swimmer Scott Jordan Comes Out

PlanetOut.com/Gay.com has posted a coming out interview this past week with NCAA swimmer Scott Jordan. Here's the story, and the photos from it.

Taking the plunge:
An NCAA swimmer comes out and excels
by Robert Ordona

He's a tall, hunky, lean and ripped champion swimmer at New York's St. Bonaventure University, but Scott Jordan found himself in too deep when he realized he had to come out to his teammates at his small-town school. The 21-year-old swimmer talks to us about his teammates' reactions, his views on masculinity and his search for love in all the wet places.

You're gay and you're a jock. When did you first realize you were a jock?

I learned to swim when I was really young -- 2 or 3 years old. When I was 11, I joined a club team, which was when I first started swimming seriously. We trained all year and I had a really good coach. I found it easy and started winning. But I played other sports, too -- baseball, soccer, basketball. I made my town's all-star team in baseball when I was in eighth grade, but I got to the point where I was much better at swimming. It was what I wanted to do and saw that I had the ability to get a scholarship for college as a swimmer. And so I kept swimming and I love it.

And when did you realize you were gay?

I've always known that I've been attracted to men, since puberty -- 11 or 12 years old, but I didn't realize I was different till maybe I was about 15, when I understood what a gay person was. I kind of made a connection, like, "Wait a minute, I have these sexual feelings for men and that's the definition of a gay guy." I guess that connection made me a little fearful. It wasn't until I was 16 that I could actually admit to myself that I was gay.

I grew up in Connecticut, which is very liberal, but I'm from a pretty small town of about 8,000 people. When I was 18, I decided to come out to my family. We were on a camping trip and I was sitting next to my mom by the fire and I said, "I have something to tell you," and then I just broke down and started crying. And she goes, "Did you get a girl pregnant?" And I'm like, "No, no!" And she thought for a moment and said, "You're gay." And I'm like "Yes! Yes!"

Her reaction was really good. She hugged me and said that everything was going to be fine.

Read the rest of this extensive interview here.