In part, his support came from Adolf Hitler being a personal fan and inviting Bukh to be part of his propaganda (displaying the ideal male aesthetic) for the 1936 Games in Berlin. He was out, though not widely he was outed internationally by a former partner after expressing support for the Nazis. īukh was selected to the 1908 Olympic team, but did not compete, and then was coach of the gold-medal winning 1912 gymnastics team. After his success, he moved to the city to teach though rumors of him being gay were prevalent, and may be the reason he was fired from his teaching job, it was only confirmed by family after his death.
Louis, but Poage felt it important that he compete. Black activists wanted a boycott of the 1904 Games in which Poage competed, as crowds would be segregated in St. The first African-American Olympic medalist, Poage was also gay. Around the time of his Games appearance in 1900, Montesquiou was noted to feel stifled by the aristocracy he had been born into, which was 'fundamentally conservative'. He won a bronze medal in the Hacks and hunter combined equestrian event in 1900 prior to 1996, the event was not consistently considered to have been truly Olympic, but is since included. Montesquiou was a 'notorious homosexual', with this influence discussed, though he may have lived a chaste life.
