Chapter 88

“So if asked about my sexuality, I should lie?” I went back to that a lot, as it was one of several things I obsessed about when not in the water.

“If you screw men—and don’t tell me if you do—then pretty much, yes. Like I said, that market has been cornered, and don’t fool yourself. America may have voted a black man and soon a woman into the presidency, but the ones who didn’t vote that way and some who did are not ready for a gay Olympic swimming champ. For every homo beating off to your ex-training partner in his Speedo, there are a dozen people disgusted. Some of those people might matter to your future, so just stay out of that end of the pool.”