Former Olympic diver and LGBTQ+ rights activist Greg Louganis visited Mission Viejo this week where he started his diving career to talk about the auction.
Building on his early success here, Louganis went on to win five Olympic medals and is considered by many to be the greatest diver in history. Now, as an LGBTQ+ rights activist and an openly gay man who lives with an HIV diagnosis, he is selling his medals to support organizations dedicated to those causes.
The Gold medal won by Louganis in Los Angeles, in 1984. Photographed on Thursday June 8th 2023 in Mission Viejo, California. The three medals up for auction are his 1976 silver medal for the platform dive, his 1984 gold medal for the springboard event and his 1988 gold medal for his last dive from the platform event.
The auction is not the first time Louganis has parted with one of his medals. He gave the medal he won for the 1988 springboard dive to Jeanne White-Ginder, Ryan White’s mother, and it is currently displayed in the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis.
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