Diana Nyad
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Oh, that is unbelievably tender and touching.
Yes.
Yeah, and it wasn't necessary to film it, you know.
I think it was Fienneserbe, you know, like a fine herb omelette.
Yeah, oh, earlier than that.
I think by 1972 I was out.
You know, honestly, it was a nothing.
I mean, I just always have beenβwe mentioned in the very beginning about physical limitations and age limitations.
And so I've been gay, I'm sure, if I really could dig it back, since fifth grade.
But, you know, in my own mind, knowing it and being able to speak it out, it was when I was about 21, which was the early 70s.
And I've never had a problem.
I was out at ABC Sports.
Nobody had a problem with me because I refused to let there be a problem.
I'm not going to walk into a room, you know, with some sort of inferiority feeling like, oh, my God, I'm I'm a woman.
So I don't believe I don't deserve to be in this room of sports guys or I'm gay.
So I shouldn't let that be seen among all these straight married people.
I just, you know, as I said in the beginning, I find that all bullshit.
Life's too short to worry about what other people are thinking.
Was she cool with it?
Yes and no.