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Contents:
- THERE ARE A RERD 11 OPENLY GAY MALE OLYMPIANS R. NONE IS AN AMERIN.
- WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE
- GAY BRISH OLYMPIAN TOM BOSWORTH PROPOS TO BOYIEND AT R GAM – LOOK
- Q: WHY DO GAY MEN LOVE THE OLYMPICS? A: ISN’T IT OBV?
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
THERE ARE A RERD 11 OPENLY GAY MALE OLYMPIANS R. NONE IS AN AMERIN.
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Human Rights mpaign timat that there are at least 41 openly lbian, gay and bisexual Olympians – up om 23 that participated London 2012 – though puts that number much higher at 49. “I’ve seen a big crease terms of [gay] athlet and spectators” says LGBT analyst Charley Walters, who has vered the last eight Olympic gam and vered LGBT athlet extensively. The majory of out athlet are women, and there are no US men who’ve e out as gay before the Olympics.
Outsports reports that football fans at the openg match of the Olympic women’s soccer tournament chanted homophobic slurs at some of the players.
WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE
Tom Wadll, an athlete the 1968 Olympics, created the Gay Gam first held 1982 to celebrate LGBTQ cln. The Gay Gam are still held to this day wh the next round schled for 2022 Hong Kong. * 2016 olympic gay *
The 2016 Summer Olympics R has a rerd number of publicly out lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr athlet.
There are 44 lbian or bi women, 11 gay men and no out transgenr Olympians.
When the Olympics start this weekend R Janeiro, there will be a rerd 41 publicly out gay, lbian and bisexual athlet. Includ this total are a rerd 11 gay male athlet.
GAY BRISH OLYMPIAN TOM BOSWORTH PROPOS TO BOYIEND AT R GAM – LOOK
Gay Brish track and field athlete Tom Bosworth proposed to his boyiend Harry Deley while R Janeiro for the 2016 Olympics. * 2016 olympic gay *
Diver Patrick Jefey was openly gay as a diver the 1996 Olympics. At least 186 publicly out gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, queer and nonbary athlet were Tokyo for the Summer Olympic Gam, more than triple the number who participated at the 2016 R Gam.
Q: WHY DO GAY MEN LOVE THE OLYMPICS? A: ISN’T IT OBV?
The U.S. Olympic Team is prised of 554 athlet, eight of whom are openly gay. All eight of them are women. NBC OUT Contributor Jason Page asks, "Where my boys at?" * 2016 olympic gay *
“Competg at the Olympics as an openly gay athlete is pretty amazg,” Canadian swimmer Mark Thormeyer told Outsports. Thormeyer was not out when he peted at the 2016 R Olympics and me out publicly as gay a 2020 say for Outsports. Elissa Alarie (Canada)#Brt Benn (Canada)#Kelly Brazier (New Zealand)Gayle Broughton (New Zealand)#Isadora Cello (Brazil) Lren Doyle (USA)#Mara Fravanti (Brazil)#Megan Jon (Bra)Alev Kelter (USA)Ghislae Landry (Canada)#Kaili Lan (Canada)#Celia Quansah (Bra)Kristen Thomas (USA)Ruby Tui (New Zealand)#Sharni Williams (Atralia)Portia Woodman (New Zealand).
"We're disabled and we're gay, " says Abby Dunk of the gold medal women's wheelchair basketball team.
Brish Olympian wh gay dad retir to bee an ally to LGBTQ athlet. Still no apology om wrer on gay Olympics story. Team LGBT medal unt beats every anti-gay untry.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * 2016 olympic gay *
Not even the anti-gay untry of Jamai, wh s 11 medals, uld e close to the performance of publicly out gay, lbian and bisexual athlet at the R Olympics. Gay Asie Olympian was out and proud R. R Gam are the gayt Olympics ever.
NBC profil married gay beach volleyball player. "There will surely be more gay married upl who pete at the same Gam, eher together or otherwise, " not USA Today reporter Mart Rogers. His gay and lbian iends San Francis, though, had never experienced an event as thrillg or movg as the openg ceremony.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
The northern Italian cy of Padua has started removg the nam of non-blogil gay mothers om their children’s birth certifit unr new legislatn passed by the “tradnal fay-first” ernment of Prime Mister Grgia Meloni. * 2016 olympic gay *
And so Wadll created the Gay Gam – then lled the Gay Olympics, until the Internatnal Olympic Commtee sued over the name. “The formula for succs was visibily and inty, ” Wadll said an terview followg the first Gay Gam 1982.
That’s what the first Gay Gam were all about. Wadll died 1987, but the Gay Gam ntue to this day, growg to an ternatnal phenomenon sce their first eratn. They draw over 10, 000 athlet and sometim seven or eight tim as many spectators, said Shiv Pl, vice print of external relatns for the Feratn of Gay Gam.
You don’t have to be a profsnal athlete – even a proficient one – to pete the Gay Gam. You don’t even have to be gay. And unlike at the Olympics, activism is enuraged at the Gay Gam, as has been sce the begng when the HIV/AIDS crisis was ravagg LGBTQ muni.