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I just finished Matt Mitchams autobiography Twists and Turns .

Young for an auto-b but he has been at the peak of youthful fame and has a great story to tell.

He is the Olympic gold medal diver who got the gold at Beijing.

He is also gay, not the first diver or Olympian by any means but the first open one. NBC could not imagine that he kissed his partner Lachlan after his win. Shock and dismay. But we could imagine it.

So that makes him a gay liberator as well as a fine athlete.

This is a good book for several reasons. Don't know if he had help but if he did he got the right help. It is riveting.

He, like me, is a man in recovery. We didn't know that when he was front page famous. This sets the record straight. So to speak.

He keeps things tight and to the point. He has a lot of fun in his soul. It comes out in the reading.

I had a good time. With him and the book. I would recommend it to anyone interested in gays or sports or even Australians (as I currently am) because it reads close to what I believe his experience is like.

Labels: books, gay heroes, gay sports