Adam Rippon may be the first out figure skater to pete the Olympics, but he's not the only gay man to have land an axel on the world stage.
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
- 16 GAY AND BI OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS
THREE OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS E OUT — 2 GAY MEN AND 1 QUEER WOMAN
Three figure skaters, Amerin Jason Brown and Canadians Pl Poirier and Kalyn Weaver, me out as gay and queer for Pri Month. * gay pairs skater *
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. LeDuc — om Cedar Rapids, Iowa — me out as gay at the age of 18 and went public as nonbary last year. 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.
THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 39 GAY OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS. HERE’S THE LIST
Guillme Cizeron is the sixth gay man to w Olympic gold figure skatg. * gay pairs skater *
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
Adam Rippon may be the first out figure skater to pete the Olympics, but he's not the only gay man to have land an axel on the world stage. * gay pairs skater *
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:.
Eric Radford, who beme the first openly gay Wter Olympic gold medalist 2018, will pete Beijg. LeDuc beme the first openly gay athlete to w gold a US pairs' event wh their figure skatg partner, Ashley Ca-Gribble, 2019. Canadian pairs figure skater Eric Radford beme the first openly gay Wter Olympic gold medalist 2018, and he is returng for the 2022 Gam.
Brockhoff me out as a lbian ahead of the 2014 Wter Olympics Sochi, and she spoke out about Rsia's anti-gay laws. "She was the one who helped me realize that beg gay didn't really matter terms of a sport, 's not gog to affect how I play, but that before I had e out was affectg how I played, " Mouat told the BBC 2021 of his sports will lead the Brish men's curlg team and pete the mixed doubl. Andrew Blaser of Team USA will be the first openly gay man to pete skeleton at the Olympics.