OOOPS! Sorry guys. This got scheduled before I’d finished putting in the pix. Correction here… smile

Your Daily Briefs and Hot Aussie Famous Males both posted galleries of WetSpeedos postings on Matthew Mitcham images back in November.
Many more blogs have posted about Mitcham recently –

I’ve posted a lot about Mitcham here, and I’ve been afraid of looking like “all Matthew, all the time” (anyone for an all Matthew-all-the-time blog, lemme know…) So, anyway, I chilled it for awhile. But, this month once again his publicity machine is cranking, and these galleries are too good to neglect.  These are all from The Advocate’s February cover story on Mitcham.

(See all ten previous WetSpeedos postings on Mitcham here.

Does anyone have any larger photos of out gay Harvard water polo player Mike Crosby?

Genre Magazine did an article about him some time ago, which is reprinted online at Outsports.com. But I can’t find any decent pix of him online anywhere. These are all I have, and they are small.

It was not my intention to make this blog (such as it has been this fall — more about that in the next post) all about Matthew Mitcham, but he has received plenty of much-deserved publicity this year.

In any case, here’s another example. From France’s GayClic.com this morning, I learned that Australia’s SX Magazine has just published Mitcham’s first in-depth interview since winning gold this summer in Beijing.

What do we find out? Among other things we learn Matthew didn’t care that NBC failed to cover the fact he was gay, that his lover Lachlan is very shy, that they vacationed in Europe after the Olympics and that — go figure — he and Pamela Anderson comprise an ad hoc mutual admiration society of two.

Read it all here on SX, and here on GayClic.com.

WetSpeedos covered a previous SX article on Matthew Mitcham in July. Other postings by this blog on Mitcham can be found here, here, here, here and here.

Australia’s SX Magazine this month feature’s a photo session and interview with Aussie Olympic team diver Matthew Mitcham, who came out with a lot of fanfare in May. Wet Speedos covered his coming out previously in two postings here and here.

This week, two other blogs linked here — A Cause des Garcons and Your Daily Briefs — posted coverage of the SX Magazine story. Your Daily Briefs has also posted a new gallery section of Matthew Mitcham pix. (Check out all the speedo pix they’ve also posted in their galleries.)

Here are the pix from that SX spread.

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.

Three other blogs I watch in sourcing for stories here at Wet Speedos have posted notes on the coming out of Australian Olympic diver Matthew Mitcham. Towleroad, Aussielicious and Your Daily Briefs all chimed in with stories in the past week.

Wet Speedos previously covered Matthew Mitcham’s coming out on May 26.

Here’s a wallpaper from photos published on those blogs.

Aussie diver and Olympic Team Member Matthew Mitcham, 20, came out this month with stories in The Australian on May 12 and this weekend with an article in the Sydney Herald, and another one today in Britain’s Independent. This story was also covered this week by two blogs listed here: Adventures of a Gay Boy and Favorite Subjects.

In addition, I found a posting about it in OhLaLa, which also included some YouTube videos of Matt (who speaks Mandarin, by the way!). DNA Magazine ran a news brief on his coming out on Saturday.

Congratulations, Matt, to you and your partner. We wish you all the best at the Olympics this summer!

There are not a lot of large photos available on the internet of Matthew. Most of the large ones are on View Images (now known as JAM’D), which does not allow reposting. Here are photos we have found that we can share. I’ve included some YouTube videos of him diving as well.