IML PICS PAGE 28 WINDY CITY THE VOICE OF CHICAGO’S GAY, LESBIAN, BI AND TRANS COMMUNITY SINCE 1985 MAY 29, 2013 VOL 28, NO. 34 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.comTIMES Former diver impacts thru TV BY ROSS FORMAN “I like that [my life] has been a roller-coaster ride; I think I’d be more afraid of a smooth ride,” Castillo said. “Just Jhonmar Castillo has led a wild, roller-coaster life, certainly bring it on, whatever comes my way.” worthy of a TV documentary—which he likely would pro- HOWARD duce. The early years BROWN STILL Castillo was an Olympic diver, and once was stranded in The story starts in his native Venezuela, where Castillo STRUGGLING a foreign country, jilted by his gay lover. Castillo has been was a competitive diver at age 8 and, by age 12, he won page 6 broke and heartbroken. He’s been in love multiple times— his first National Championship. Castillo eventually won 14 and proudly walked, hand in hand, to his civil union cer- international diving competitions in the 10-meter platform emony with Ryan Witmer on June 2, 2011. Castillo has been event, and he even represented his native country at the a waiter by need, a hairdresser of fame, and an art dealer 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. who flourished and then one who struggled with the econo- When diver Greg Louganis had one of his most infamous my. He now is a pioneer in the gay media world. He’s endur- dives of his illustrious career, hitting the back of his head ing bullying, though not to himself directly, and admits he on the diving board, Castillo, then 16, was right there, in himself was a bully. his swimming trunks, on the pool deck. Castillo never had an official coming-out because, he While living in Venezuela in his early-20s, Castillo spent said, “I never was in [the closet.]” a couple years working as a flight attendant for American He is an international sensation, now living in suburban Airlines, mainly as a route out of the country. Evanston, often working to further promote the LGBT com- “I didn’t see myself as a flight attendant at age 40,” he munity into the wee hours of the morning—in an unpaid Jhonmar Castillo manning the camera at a Turn to page 10 job that has been his focus since August, 2011. Pride Parade in Chicago. 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