EXCLUSIVE: Greg Louganis is a gold medal Olympic diving legend, humanitarian and LGBTQ trailblazer — and now his life is getting the big screen treatment. Louganis is teaming with his manager, Greg…
Louganis chronicled his life as one of the greatest Olympic divers in history and coming out as an HIV-positive gay man in his bookbest seller and was later made into a TV movie for the USA Network with Mario Lopez starring as Louganis. In 2015, HBO released the documentarywhich went on to earn an Emmy nomination. Now, after a complicated process of gaining the rights to his story, Louganis is ready for the next step in telling his narrative with a feature film.
Louganis said that people would come up to him and say that his story saved their lives. The book helped many come out to their parents as gay and share their HIV status with their friends and my family. “It gave them the courage to talk about a lot of things that were taboo to discuss.” Greg Louganis after winning the gold medal in platform diving at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los AngelesThe film won’t be a story documenting his entire life. However, he did say they are planning on double casting the lead with a younger and older version of himself. There are so many facets of his life to spotlight, but it will focus on his Olympic career as well as his role as a pioneer from the gay sports community.
When he told those close to him that he was going to come out, they said it was “career suicide.” He said, “My mother was concerned about my safety. I received death threats and all that stuff — but I didn’t hear any consequences that were not too great. The need to come forward was in my heart.”
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