Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 07:57:14 -0500
From: Chris Hagin <chagin@mindspring.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list GLB-NEWS <GLB-NEWS@BROWNVM.brown.edu>
Subject: Greg & Oprah

DATE: 2/27/1995

Louganis' `burden'

Olympic gold medalist Greg Louganis told Oprah Winfrey that
living secretly with AIDS was an ``incredible burden,'' and
he plans to spend the rest of his life ``openly and
honestly.''

In an appearance to be broadcast today, Louganis also told
of his diving board accident at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul,
a rape at knife-point and his numerous suicide attempts.

``It's been so difficult with the secret, and asking people
to keep the secrets,'' said Louganis, who revealed last
summer that he is gay and last week that he has AIDS. ``I
was feeling like a fake.''

Winfrey arranged for Louganis to meet the mother of Ryan
White, the teen-ager who died of AIDS in 1990 after
contracting it through a blood transfusion.

The diver dedicated his new book, ``Breaking the Surface,''
to Ryan, whom he befriended several years ago. Jeanne White
calls the gold medalist her ``second son.''

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