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Hoy cumple 35 años #IanThorpe #Felicidades

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#Repost @sydneymardigras (@get_repost) ・・・ We spotted lots of people running for equality at #city2surf this morning! Well done guys! 🏃🏻👍🏼 #Repost @dankirkwood: Oh hi @ian.thorpe! #city2surf #marriageequality @amequality #city2surf2017 #ianthorpe #marriage #equality #equalrights #running #instafit #instagay

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Yoghurt Soup with Minted Meatballs - Eat Well Now by Ian Thorpe

This is a Turkish dish that I first tried in Tanzania, of all places. I was visiting a school that is funded out of turkey and was there for dignity day. All the children had to define what dignity was to them, and it was incredible to realise what a universal concept it is. I think it is hard to define, but easier if you think of an experience where dignity is taken away. As for this soup, I really liked it. Everyone has tried lamb with tzatziki, so the dish isn’t really that bizarre, just a new way of serving it. - Ian Thorpe

Click the link in the title for the full recipe on Cooked.com

Photography by Gorta Yuuki & William Meppem. This book can be ordered at all good bookshops or online at hardiegrant.co.uk, Amazon, or Waterstones.

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This has an insane resemblance to Ian Thorpe lol..

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Rainbow Is The New Black

So Ian Thorpe publicly came out as gay.

Who?

Well, before the world was fascinated by Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte, Ian Thorpe was the golden boy of swimming. He's pretty much all I remember from the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000. And now 14 years later, the world is being reintroduced to him in a different light.

I was at a brunch this past weekend and someone commented, "Everyone's saying it's so brave of him to come out. Coming out isn't brave anymore, it's just normal at this point" ... or something along those lines.

My take? It definitely takes bravery to come out. I think coming out to yourself before coming out to the world is arguably harder. The decision to accept a life that is highly regarded as unideal, abnormal, sinful. The moment when you choose to claim the life you were born into, despite society telling you that it is wrong. The uncertainty of whether or not your family and friends will still be there for you. The threat of being a high-risk target for violence and abuse. The choice to come out is brave. The act of making ANY choice in your life is a display of bravery -- whether it's to quit your job and move cross-country to chase a passion, or to discern and answer the call to celibacy and priesthood, or to get down on one knee and ask the love of your life to spend the rest of his or her life with you ... all these require bravery.

Ian Thorpe's coming out story is a bit more controversial because 1) whoa, where the fck did you come from after all these years? and 2) he adamantly denied the gay rumors in his 2012 autobiography. So why now?

Well, as any openly gay person will tell you - it was the right timing. I think most gay people realize very young in life that they're not like everyone else. It took me four whole years to fully come out to my family after I had come out to friends. I had set deadlines for myself that kept getting pushed back -- until finally the day came for me to do it, and I knew that it was the right time. I have a good friend who recently came out to us who are his closest friends -- I wouldn't say I was utterly shocked, but I appreciated that this was the time that he felt comfortable finally declaring it. I have a good friend who is out, yet not to his family. I know that day will come and it's simply a matter of time.

People are giving Ian Thorpe a lot of heat for having denied his sexuality so publicly. In doing so, he's seen as someone who was too embarrassed to be a part of this group. Let's be real though -- I'm sure all you gay folks weren't so quick to admit to being gay when you were asked about it during the times you were still trying to figure that part out. Insert photos of your high school girlfriends here. When I was a freshman in college, I remember my mom asking me point blank. I denied it. I knew what I wanted to say, but I denied it. I wasn't ready, and I don't think she was either.

Instead of pointing fingers and chastising Thorpe when he is finally brave enough to come out -- a point all open LGBT folks have had to face -- why not welcome him with the same kind of acceptance that we as the LGBT community continue to seek. If we are to demand it from others, we should certainly be able to find it amongst our own. And then maybe one day, anyone who finds themselves in this position will be able to come out confidently without even thinking twice of what the consequences would be.

Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming.

Photo credit: theguardian.com