and began a relationship. The other was lesbian athlete Sara Lewinstein. Both Tom and Sara had longed to have a child, and they decided to have a child together. Their daughter, Jessica, was born in 1983. To protect Jessica's and her mother's legal rights, Tom and Sara married in 1985. Death In 1985, Waddell was diagnosed with AIDS. Although dogged by the IOC's lawsuit, Waddell lived to see the success of Gay Games II in 1986, and even participated, winning the gold medal in the javelin event. He died on July 11 the following year, aged 49, in San Francisco, California. His last words were "Well, this should be interesting." Waddell's battle against HIV/AIDS is one of the subjects of the award-winning 1989 documentary Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt. His autobiography, Gay Olympian, which he co-authored with sports writer Dick Schaap, was published in 1996. Tributes In 2013, Waddell was inducted into the Legacy Walk, an outdoor public display which celebrates LGBT history and people. In 2014, a street in San Francisco formerly named after Lech Wałęsa was, due to a homophobic comment by Wałęsa, renamed Dr. Tom Waddell Place. The street already featured the Tom Waddell Health Center. In 2014, Waddell was one of the inaugural honorees in the Rainbow Honor Walk, a walk of fame in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood noting LGBTQ people who have "made significant contributions in their fields." See also Homosexuality in sports Principle 6 campaign References External links Short biography 1937 births 1987 deaths American male decathletes Athletes (track and field) at the 1968 Summer Olympics Olympic track and field athletes of the United States Gay sportsmen LGBT track and field athletes American LGBT sportspeople Stanford University School of Medicine alumni Springfield Pride football players American sports physicians LGBT physicians LGBT people from New Jersey AIDS-related deaths in California American LGBT military personnel Springfield College (Massachusetts) alumni American people of German descent People from San Francisco LGBT players of American football 20th-century LGBT people