Robert Dover was the first out gay Olympic athlete, in 1988.

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Robert Dover won four Olympic medals as an athlete and one as a coach between 1984 and 2016. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

In 1988, at the height of the AIDS crisis, Robert Dover made Olympics history by blazing a trail for generations of gay athletes to come.

That was when Dover matter-of-factly told the public that he was gay. In our latest episode of…