16 Gay and Bi Olympic Figure Skaters

Contents:

• THREE OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS E OUT — 2 GAY MEN AND 1 QUEER WOMAN
• THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 39 GAY OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS. HERE’S THE LIST
• SEVEN FABULO “OUT” GAY MEN OF FIGURE SKATG
• 16 GAY AND BI OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS
• PL POIRIER AIMS FOR AN OLYMPIC MEDAL LS THAN A YEAR AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• GAY CANADIAN FIGURE SKATER, OLYMPIC SILVER MEDALIST ERIC RADFORD IS PHG A PERFECT 10
• ERIC RADFORD: OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATER, MEDAL-WNG FAY MAN. AND GAY.
• OLYMPIAN ERIC RADFORD SAYS SPIRG OTHER GAY PEOPLE IS ‘CREDIBLE’

THREE OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS E OUT — 2 GAY MEN AND 1 QUEER WOMAN

Three Olympic figure skaters have e out for Pri Month, cludg two gay men and a queer woman. The three athlet are: Amerin sgl figure skater Jason Brown, who is gay; Canadian ice dancer Pl Poirier, who is gay, and Canadian ice dancer Kalyn Weaver, who is queer. I’m gay, and that’s a story still beg wrten...

“[Beg a gay athlete] hasn’t been somethg that I’ve really talked about very much, pecially a public settg, ” Poirier said.

THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 39 GAY OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS. HERE’S THE LIST

There have been at least 39 gay men to pete figure skatg at the Wter Olympic Gam over the years, wh eight publicly out men petg 2022.

SEVEN FABULO “OUT” GAY MEN OF FIGURE SKATG

LGBT historian Tony Scupham-Bilton has intified the men over the years, cludg a pastakg procs of intifyg who is gay. The gay men have bed for 15 Olympic medals, wh several ready to pete pairs figure skatg later this week.

16 GAY AND BI OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS

Five other gay athlet have been named as alternat. In addn to the 37 gay men, Timothy LeDuc is nonbary and will make their Olympic but this week.

Six of the gay men to pete have won Olympic gold medals:. But he kept his sexualy a private matter until 2014, when the Uned Stat sent a legatn to Rsia ma up of high-profile gay athlet.

PL POIRIER AIMS FOR AN OLYMPIC MEDAL LS THAN A YEAR AFTER G OUT AS GAY

"I never felt like I need to before, so whether people figured out if I was gay or not, I had to make official, why I had to e out publicly. But he never mentned beg gay until he started playg hockey for the Toronto Gay Hockey Associatn, where he started lerally wearg that part of his inty on his sleeve, somethg he discsed wh The Hockey News 2012. Shortly before petg at Worlds that same year, the German newspaper Bild-Zeung outed Curry as gay, g a mor sndal Europe, but Curry went on to w the event anyway, makg him the first skater to w the European, Olympic and World champnships a sgle season, acrdg to the BBC.

After years of qutns of whether he and Babilonia would ever date, Gardner revealed to Scene magaze 2006 that he was gay.

GAY CANADIAN FIGURE SKATER, OLYMPIC SILVER MEDALIST ERIC RADFORD IS PHG A PERFECT 10

While qutns about the flamboyant skater followed him through his reer -- two Canadian broadsters ught flak and spired a Pri Hoe prott after makg homophobic ments about Weir at the 2010 Olympics -- he did not e out until 2011, when he revealed he was gay his memoir, Wele to My World. Skaters would later say McCall's homosexualy had been an open secret wh the sport.

Stt Haton his book Landg It later creded Pockar and Rob McCall for helpg him get over personal homophobia, but Haton also got cricized for posthumoly outg the men. He me out publicly as gay 2008, and told that many gay skaters pete but don't discs their sexualy publicly.

The gay skater prevly hoped to make the team 2006 and 2010 but fell short both years. Hendrickx spoke January spoke to Dutch media outlet ZiZo about what 's like to travel an ternatnal sport when homosexualy is still owned upon much of the world. Two years later, be me out as gay an Instagram post.

ERIC RADFORD: OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATER, MEDAL-WNG FAY MAN. AND GAY.

Spanish LGBT media outlet reported that Raya was the first Spanish Olympian ever to publicly announce he was gay.

Important Note: this blog only featur athlet who voluntarily, personally and publicly disclosed themselv as gay. NOTE January 2018: Sce this blog is almost two years old and this beg an Olympic year, I have now wrten and published “Seven More Fabulo Out Gay Men of Figure Skatg (and One Bisexual Woman.

Please read “Five Key Msag on The Importance of Out Gay Olympic Athlet”. Recently, Out Magaze me out wh their list of “100 Hot Out Gay Men” which clud people entertament, sports, polics, bs, etc.

OLYMPIAN ERIC RADFORD SAYS SPIRG OTHER GAY PEOPLE IS ‘CREDIBLE’

Therefore, sce the World Figure Skatg champnships are beg held next week (March 30 – April 3) Boston, first time the USA 8 years, I am publishg my own list of seven hot out gay men of Figure Skatg. Print Obama appoted Brian, as an out proud gay man, as one our Amerin legat to the Wter Olympics Sochi, Rsia 2014 to unter some of the close-md anti-gay rhetoric of Rsian Print Vladmir Put (see my blog “Rsia, LGBT Rights and the Psychology of Bullyg”). Rudy is the first openly gay US champn and also later shared about beg HIV+.

In December 2014, Eric Radford of Canada publicly me out as gay an terview wh the LGBT publitn Outsports, bemg the first petive figure skater ever to e out at the height of his reer while still a ntenr for champnship tl.