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Contents:
- FOR GAY OLYMPIC GYMNAST DOMIC CLARKE, G OUT ALLOWED HIM TO SHE TOKYO
- WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE
- OLYMPIC SKIER G KENWORTHY ON G OUT AS GAY, TURNG PRO, AND HOW HE BALANC SPORTS, ACTG, AND ADVOCY
- JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
- JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
FOR GAY OLYMPIC GYMNAST DOMIC CLARKE, G OUT ALLOWED HIM TO SHE TOKYO
Domic Clarke had a ‘gay old time’ beg himself at the Olympics once he embraced who he was. * olympic gay come out *
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.
“[Beg a gay athlete] hasn’t been somethg that I’ve really talked about very much, pecially a public settg,” Poirier said. Across our culture today, when a man “ out” so many immediately label him “gay gay gay! That Leyva don’t intify as gay, is still tryg to figure out how exactly he intifi, and is still willg to share all of this publicly should be empowerg to other men who are the same boat.
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. * olympic gay come out *
Weeks before the 2016 printial electn, he shared a msage of support for LGBTQ people, and trans rights particular, while wearg a “Make Ameri Gay Aga” T-shirt.
The men the sports are eher largely assumed to be gay, or their sexualy is unknown.
Women face the same issu, but reverse: Ice hockey and softball players are assumed gay, figure skaters and gymnasts assumed straight. In the sports where athlet are assumed to be “gay, ” the prsure on athlet is to rist that label so they don’t nform to people’s assumptns.
OLYMPIC SKIER G KENWORTHY ON G OUT AS GAY, TURNG PRO, AND HOW HE BALANC SPORTS, ACTG, AND ADVOCY
Olympic divg legend Greg Louganis [he/him], 61, won four gold medals across back-to-back Olympic Gam, 1984 and 1988. He me out publicly as gay at the Gay Gam 1994. * olympic gay come out *
The attus — that some sports are “gay” and some are “straight” — are changg, but they n’t change fast enough.
After g out as gay an Instagram post 2020, Bank hop to show younger athlet “that they n be whomever they are, or want to be, whout discrimatn. Guillme Cizeron (@GuillmeCIZ) is an openly gay figure skater petg for Team France.
Lewis Gibson (@Lewisgibson4) is an openly gay figure skater reprentg Team Great Bra. Radford ma history as the first petive figure skater to e out as gay while still petg for champnship tl 2014, pavg the way for future LGBTQ+ athlet to e out.
JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
G Kenworthy beme the first Olympic skier to e out as gay 2015. Ever sce, his skig has gotten better, and he's gotten more succsful. * olympic gay come out *
G Kenworthy (@gkenworthy) is an openly gay etyle skier and a dual cizen of Great Bra and the Uned Stat.
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.
JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
* olympic gay come out *
“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).
Atralian A-League soccer star Josh Cavallo me out as gay an October vio posted to his social media, beg hailed as the first current male top-flight profsnal soccer player to publicly do so.