List of LGBTQ Summer Olympians (1896–2000)

This article is about 20th-century LGBTQ+ Summer Olympic athletes. For artists at the Summer Olympics, see List of LGBTQ artists at the Olympic Games.
For LGBTQ+ Summer Olympic athletes who debuted after 2000, see List of LGBTQ Summer Olympians (2004–2020) and List of LGBTQ Summer Olympians (2024–present).
For LGBTQ+ Summer Paralympians, see List of LGBTQ Paralympians.

There are 136 modern Summer Olympic athletes, who made their Olympic debut up to and including 2000, who have identified or been identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, pansexual, non-binary, queer, or who have openly been in a same-sex relationship, including one who has also competed at the Winter Olympic Games. The first Olympic Games in which an athlete now known to be LGBT+ competed was the 1900 Summer Olympics, also the first LGBT+ Olympic medalist and first contemporaneously out Olympian.

The most decorated able-bodied LGBT+ Summer Olympian is Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe, with 9 medals including 5 golds. At least 79 LGBT+ Summer Olympians who debuted up to and including 2000 are medalists (58.09%), of which 38 have at least one gold medal (27.94%).


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