Lots of times, mainly via his old Tumblr page and maybe a live stream or two, but he had a pretty active Tumblr going on for a while and of course would get bombarded with questions (he’s deleted some content, but there’s still lots and lots of asks in his Tumblr archive if you go digging)... mostly he was nice enough about it and just deny he was gay, or say he had no problems with gay people and that he’s friends with and comfortable being around gays, but, he’d also get really defensive and irked at times because he felt the questions kept coming when he thought he answered sufficiently and felt like some of his followers were trying to pressure him into being something he’s not or force their sexuality upon him, etc. In fact, he got so boiled up about it one time, he posted a video about his views, but deleted it shortly after—never did know what was in that.
An example of peak frustration:
Oh yeah he was really pissed. LOL I had no idea he had a tumblr. I only looked at his Youtube videos and Twitter and I stopped looking at them when he got the "beard" He never talked about gay stuff on those two medias I think.Lots of times, mainly via his old Tumblr page and maybe a live stream or two, but he had a pretty active Tumblr going on for a while and of course would get bombarded with questions (he’s deleted some content, but there’s still lots and lots of asks in his Tumblr archive if you go digging)... mostly he was nice enough about it and just deny he was gay, or say he had no problems with gay people and that he’s friends with and comfortable being around gays, but, he’d also get really defensive and irked at times because he felt the questions kept coming when he thought he answered sufficiently and felt like some of his followers were trying to pressure him into being something he’s not or force their sexuality upon him, etc. In fact, he got so boiled up about it one time, he posted a video about his views, but deleted it shortly after—never did know what was in that.
An example of peak frustration:
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I mean people aren't blind. They see what they see and frankly we are under no obligation to believe what someone says just because they say it. When I was his age I would have sworn up and down on a stack of Bibles that I was straight. I will say that his getting married makes it useless to still question him on social media whether he's gay or not. He's made his choice.
For his sake he better be totally straight or he's going to end up hating his life, wife and parents and maybe even God at some point.
Know what’s funny, you bring up his family but ever since he got married and the last Olympics he’s barely ever mentioned them... I see him interact with his older brother Race from time to time, but he never posts about going home, there’s no recent pictures and I’ve completely forgotten he has a little sister.
Makes me wonder if there’s a rift... maybe the stress from the family’s financial struggles (Olympic aspirations ain’t cheap), or maybe they disapproved of him marrying so young, so fast. I know they are religious, but I’ve always got the impression that Steele was especially indoctrinated into the church and took it well beyond even his families beliefs.
Then they shouldn't have pressured him to start dating then. Steele once did a video where he said one of the things he would most value in a relationship is space(not the first thing horny straight guys think of when they want a girlfriend) so if he really is closeted then marrying the first girl who would agree to his particular idiosyncratic demands would make sense. I'm sure his family barely got to know her.
I swear if I didn't know better I would think he was in an arranged marriage. I mean out of the blue he says he has a girlfriend he never mentioned even dating and then was it even a year later they were married?
Well, he certainly got the space part. It seems she’s off and away most times doing whatever. Her parents are wealthy so I’m sure they’re kicking in, because while she does have some photography clients, she seems to spend just as much time traveling and doing “photography workshops” (i.e., spending money).
Yeah, the timing of their whole thing was/is super strange, but he did the arranging if anything—while family pressure and society pressure played into it, it’s his deeply seeded fundamentalist Christian views and rejection of his sexual identity that played the biggest part. I mean, with the last olympics just months away amounting to the culmination of everything he’s ever worked for, he out of the blue divides his focus and starts dating a fundamentalist older girl—this virgin who never showed interest in dating before now has a convenient beard to prop up his image just in time for the cameras looking for those slice of life and sentimental hit pieces they love to pepper in during the olympics.
Steele knew the reputation for the Olympics being a sexual haven—and as a (closeted) virgin I think the idea of having to navigate that terrified him, so he got a girlfriend that was also conveniently disinclined to have sex for biblical reasons and that was his shield. And getting married less than a year later while still 20 is just the patented Boudia method for locking away the gay forever.
I had no idea Hillary was traveling away from Steele most of the time
You mention Steele being a closeted virgin. I'm sure he's...excuse me was a virgin to straight sex but perhaps not to gay sex. I mean he's been working in an almost exclusively gay sport, naked most of the time, with a bunch of hormonal super twinks since he was 7 years old. I mean half of the genuinely 100% straight guys in the world have done something gay in their teens and they weren't hanging around all day with naked guys who would make Corbin Fisher models look like a bunch of meth heads.
If Steele was able to resist actual sex in that environment then his gay porn habits must be crazy large because trust me and this is coming from a guy who tried to pray the gay away for decades. God has no interest in making gay guys straight and your sexuality will find a way to satisfy itself. He doesn't have to be like me and wait until he's in his late 20's to start having sex with a bunch of random guys. And my arrested development meant I was having sex with a bunch of 18-22yo, guys 10 years younger than me, some of them teenagers who actually have more dating experience that I had. I don't want Steele or anyone to have to go though that.
During finals week at Gay Conversion Camp everyone has to make a video like this...
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"She came alongside me"
Well she's not going to be cumming underneath you is she dear...
I empathize with Steele and other Olympians regarding the postponement of the 2020 Summer games. It must seriously mess with your mind to delay the thing you’ve been working at for years and try to maintain peak performance and skill during an unknown period. And I get it, the life of a non-sponsored Team USA professional athlete sucks from a financial perspective. The top athletes in the world for soccer, basketball, golf, etc, get paid millions in addition to sponsorships, but a tier-1 athlete in diving might only get a yearly stipend of 35k or so.
That said, Steele certainly has some room to be frustrated, but he’s coming off a little too sour grapes. He’s talks about the struggle and stress of having to support his his wife and dogs—but, why did he marry someone who’s 5 years older with little income prospects and probably spends more money than she earns traveling and taking photos, and why did he think it prudent to get another designer dog just a few months ago? Just like 4 years ago I think he’s been hoping for a little divine intervention and reward and score a sponsorship deal and he’s bitter that all his suffering and prayers have gone unrewarding.
Also, he knows all too well too that there are hungry younger divers nipping at his heels and this year delay might give them the time to try and push him off the roster.
Steele Johnson, a diver who won a silver medal for the United States at the 2016 Rio Games, woke up Tuesday morning to texts from friends saying they were so sorry that the Summer Olympics had been postponed. They knew how hard it had been for Johnson, 23, and his wife, Hilary, to make ends meet as he pursued a gold medal in Tokyo.
When he read the news, Johnson said, he felt a pit in his stomach.
“We’ve had a very, very tough year financially,” he said. “I don’t know if I could keep up a lifestyle like this for another 12 to 15 months of just diving without getting a full-time job. It’s hard to think about making more sacrifices than we already have.”
For days, athletes had been voicing concerns about the 2020 Tokyo Games, worrying that they were jeopardizing their health and the health of others if they continued training while many of their countries were locked down and restricting activity.
In polls and surveys conducted over the weekend, athletes voted in overwhelming numbers in favor of a postponement.
Yet when the news finally came, it was the ultimate mixed blessing: a lifeline for some and a new set of challenges that may be insurmountable because of financial, age or health issues for others.
Like so many Olympians, Johnson, who has a degree in film and video studies from Purdue, lives on a tight budget that has no place for cuts. He and his wife don’t buy new clothes. At home in Indiana, their grocery bill must stay within $60 a week. He has worked nights as a driver for the food delivery service Grubhub. His wife is a wedding photographer.
After he won a silver medal at the Rio Games, Johnson could not secure a sponsor. He receives a small stipend for being on the national team, but now will look for work that can carry him through to the new, unspecified date for the Games in 2021.
“I’m just going to have to be creative,” he said. “I will do what I can to support my family and pay for our food and our dogs’ food, but it’s going to be a challenge.”
From his Instagram:
I’m at a loss for words. Moving the Olympics to 2021 is the right decision. Focusing on the health and safety of humanity must always be the priority. That being said, I’ve spent the past 4 years working to peak this coming summer. I am committed to spending the next year continuing to grow as an athlete, but it will not be easy. Pushing the Games back will have a major impact on how I prepare and how I go about supporting my wife and I. It’s going to be a battle, but I’m going to fight like hell.
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Thank you all for supporting me these past 4 years, and I hope you all continue to support me as I push towards Tokyo 2021. Things will look different, things will have to look different, but I’m going to continue to give 100% effort and trust that the Lord has good in store for me in these next 12-16 months. Pray for me. Pray with me. Let’s do our part, take care of each other, and come back even stronger. Love you
That said, Steele certainly has some room to be frustrated, but he’s coming off a little too sour grapes. He’s talks about the struggle and stress of having to support his his wife and dogs—but, why did he marry someone who’s 5 years older with little income prospects and probably spends more money than she earns traveling and taking photos, and why did he think it prudent to get another designer dog just a few months ago? Just like 4 years ago I think he’s been hoping for a little divine intervention and reward and score a sponsorship deal and he’s bitter that all his suffering and prayers have gone unrewarding.
Also, he knows all too well too that there are hungry younger divers nipping at his heels and this year delay might give them the time to try and push him off the roster.
Steele Johnson, a diver who won a silver medal for the United States at the 2016 Rio Games, woke up Tuesday morning to texts from friends saying they were so sorry that the Summer Olympics had been postponed. They knew how hard it had been for Johnson, 23, and his wife, Hilary, to make ends meet as he pursued a gold medal in Tokyo.
When he read the news, Johnson said, he felt a pit in his stomach.
“We’ve had a very, very tough year financially,” he said. “I don’t know if I could keep up a lifestyle like this for another 12 to 15 months of just diving without getting a full-time job. It’s hard to think about making more sacrifices than we already have.”
For days, athletes had been voicing concerns about the 2020 Tokyo Games, worrying that they were jeopardizing their health and the health of others if they continued training while many of their countries were locked down and restricting activity.
In polls and surveys conducted over the weekend, athletes voted in overwhelming numbers in favor of a postponement.
Yet when the news finally came, it was the ultimate mixed blessing: a lifeline for some and a new set of challenges that may be insurmountable because of financial, age or health issues for others.
Like so many Olympians, Johnson, who has a degree in film and video studies from Purdue, lives on a tight budget that has no place for cuts. He and his wife don’t buy new clothes. At home in Indiana, their grocery bill must stay within $60 a week. He has worked nights as a driver for the food delivery service Grubhub. His wife is a wedding photographer.
After he won a silver medal at the Rio Games, Johnson could not secure a sponsor. He receives a small stipend for being on the national team, but now will look for work that can carry him through to the new, unspecified date for the Games in 2021.
“I’m just going to have to be creative,” he said. “I will do what I can to support my family and pay for our food and our dogs’ food, but it’s going to be a challenge.”
I’m at a loss for words. Moving the Olympics to 2021 is the right decision. Focusing on the health and safety of humanity must always be the priority. That being said, I’ve spent the past 4 years working to peak this coming summer. I am committed to spending the next year continuing to grow as an athlete, but it will not be easy. Pushing the Games back will have a major impact on how I prepare and how I go about supporting my wife and I. It’s going to be a battle, but I’m going to fight like hell.
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Thank you all for supporting me these past 4 years, and I hope you all continue to support me as I push towards Tokyo 2021. Things will look different, things will have to look different, but I’m going to continue to give 100% effort and trust that the Lord has good in store for me in these next 12-16 months. Pray for me. Pray with me. Let’s do our part, take care of each other, and come back even stronger. Love you
Also with travel being restricted he's going to be stuck with his wife almost all the time. I wonder how Mr.(space is the most important thing in a marriage) will handle that.
He was to young and inexperience to get married and his career has a very early end date so he should have know but he just had to get married to a woman. Was he afraid he couldn't find another woman who would be OK with a lack of passion and sex? We just saw what happened to Andrew Gillum. This is what the closet can do to you. I don't think Steele will end up passed out in a hotel with a bunch of male prostitutes and meth but something will have to give eventually if he really is gay.
And aside from the sexuality stuff, marrying someone you knew for less than a year at 20 an age when you barely know yourself is short-sighted. I’m not going to pass too much judgement on Hilary, I don’t know her, but she just seems like a stereotypical wish-washy, I wanna do something I’m passionate about but not work hard or do a 9to5 job... except she’s in her late 20’s and takes wedding photos that seems more like a hobby and excuse to travel than actual income producer.
And Steele talks in some antiquated sense that he has to financially support his wife. Her parents seem wealthy—Steele’s parents were not, so maybe there’s some stress that she’s used to living a certain way and he feels guilty for not being able to provide. They live in podunk Indiana with a modest apartment. Even if he wasn’t diving, not sure what type of job he expects to get with a degree in film and photography, probably wouldn’t make much more than his Team USA stipend, and he shouldn’t have any student loans, so he’s probably in a better position than plenty of other post-grads his age.
He’s probably laying the pathos on thick to fish for a sponsor (can’t blame him), but my blunt opinion is for his wife to get a damn job.
I used to work with a woman who was married to a gay guy. They were both Christians. I got the sense that her kids who were older didn't like him very much. Anyway my point is Steele may have had to make some compromises like letting his wife not have a job.
I used to work with a woman who was married to a gay guy. They were both Christians. I got the sense that her kids who were older didn't like him very much. Anyway my point is Steele may have had to make some compromises like letting his wife not have a job.
Things haven’t exactly panned out the way he hoped either... as a good Christian boy who prayed hard and suffered for his sport he has visions of being rewarded—and yeah, maybe promising her the easy life she was accustomed to. Get the gold metal, get a sponsor or two, “write” a book about the Olympic journey and his sacrifices and how he found a good Christian wife who saved him and brought him closer to Jesus, hit up the Bible colleges and collect some speaking fees, etc...
I didn't mean to make my post look like I was down on Christians or Christianity on the contrary. I'm a Christian. It's just their is this part of evangelical Christianity that says you can pray the gay away. That's why they promote non-biblical quackery like Reparative therapy because it solves what I like the call the "God is cruel to gays conundrum" Being gay is OK as long as you don't do the things Heteros take for granted like dating, romance and sex.
Sounds pretty cruel doesn't it? Even they know deep down that that's a pretty awful way to live. If God did that it would make him pretty cruel. God seems to have no interest in changing gay people into straight people from what I can tell.
Sounds pretty cruel doesn't it? Even they know deep down that that's a pretty awful way to live. If God did that it would make him pretty cruel. God seems to have no interest in changing gay people into straight people from what I can tell.
I feel like I should post a pic just in case someone comes here and is like bored with out discussions. LOL ![Steele Johnson and pals hands on packages.jpg]( "Steele Johnson and pals hands on packages.jpg")
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Steele honestly didn't have a realistic shot at a medal in 2020 10 mete/platform let alone gold...his only shot was to medal in synchro event like he did in 2016 with defending solo gold medalist- David Boudia… not sure if David is still diving and if they are partners, if not, he doesn't have much of a shot in that event either. The Chinese virtually have gold in both events locked up.
