Wter Olympics: Three openly gay men pete for a spot on U.S. Olympic team

Contents:

• A BRIEF HISTORY OF OPENLY GAY OLYMPIANS
• OLYMPIC SKIER G KENWORTHY ON G OUT AS GAY, TURNG PRO, AND HOW HE BALANC SPORTS, ACTG, AND ADVOCY
• G KENWORTHY POSTS PHOTO WH FELLOW OPENLY GAY OLYMPIAN ADAM RIPPON: 'EAT YOUR HEART OUT, PENCE'
• THE ARE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY US WTER OLYMPIANS AND THEIR FRIENDSHIP WILL INSPIRE YOU
• OLYMPIAN G KENWORTHY ON HIS IMPACT AS THE 'GAY SKIER' — AND WHAT HAPPENED TO THOSE SOCHI DOGS
• WTER OLYMPICS: THREE OPENLY GAY MEN PETE FOR A SPOT ON U.S. OLYMPIC TEAM
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF OPENLY GAY OLYMPIANS

When G Kenworthy peted at the Sochi Olympics 2014 he was aaid that someone would fd out that he is gay -- fast-forward eight years and he is out and proud, as are dozens of other athlet at the Beijg Brish-Amerin etyle skier, who won silver for the Uned Stat Sochi the sloptyle petn, famoly kissed his boyiend Matt Wilkas live on televisn before his qualifyg n four years later at the Olympics Pyeongchang. “Hontly, means the world to me to get to pete here as an out proud gay man and to know that there are other out LGBTQ athlet that are here petg, ” he said.

Kenworthy never thought he would see the day when he would be on the world stage as an out gay man and hop will reach the stage where stori such as his are no longer newsworthy.

World champn skier G Kenworthy, who took home a silver medal om the 2014 Sochi Olympic Gam, has e out as gay.G Kenworthy, a etyle skier who won a silver medal Sochi, pos his home Denver on Oct. The timg, to say nothg of the untry, wasn't que right to tell the world he was gay.

OLYMPIC SKIER G KENWORTHY ON G OUT AS GAY, TURNG PRO, AND HOW HE BALANC SPORTS, ACTG, AND ADVOCY

22, 2015, 5:16 PM UTCWorld champn skier G Kenworthy, who won a silver medal at the 2014 Sochi Olympic Gam, has e out as gay.The 24-year-old Olympic medalist and top ekier the world revealed the news an terview wh ESPN The Magaze published on Thursday."I am gay," Kenworthy said posts on Twter and Facebook which he shared the ver of the latt issue of the magaze."Wow, feels good to wre those words," he said on Facebook.

G KENWORTHY POSTS PHOTO WH FELLOW OPENLY GAY OLYMPIAN ADAM RIPPON: 'EAT YOUR HEART OUT, PENCE'

Figure skater Adam Rippon will be one of two openly gay Amerins petg the 2018 Wter Olympics, a first for the U.

But there’s one thg Rippon won’t be hidg – this year, he and etyle skier G Kenworthy will bee the first openly gay Amerin men to ever pete the Wter Olympics. There are gay role mols at every turn – on televisn, on lol sports, and our muni. Even so, the last time that the Uned Stat sent an openly gay man to any Olympic Gam was 2004, when equtrians Guenter Seil and Robert Dover won bronze team drsage.

THE ARE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY US WTER OLYMPIANS AND THEIR FRIENDSHIP WILL INSPIRE YOU

It was Dover’s sixth time reprentg the Uned Stat at the Olympics; durg his send Gam, 1988, Dover me out, beg the first openly gay athlete to pete the morn Olympics. "I wish that all gay athlet would e out all discipl – football, baseball, the Olympics, whatever, " Dover has said.

Ined, by the time Dover me out on the ternatnal stage, was clear that gay athlet were petg and wng all levels of profsnal sports. ) And 1982, former Olympian Tom Wadll – who would die om AIDS at the height of the epimic five years later – helped found the first Gay Gam for LGBT athlet. But was more than a earlier when an openly gay athlete first performed the Olympic Gam.

Curry acknowledged that the mors about his sexualy were te, but when journalists asked prient qutns betrayg the era’s misnceptns about homosexualy and masculy, Curry fought back: “I don’t thk I lack virily, and what other people thk of me don’t matter, ” he said. ” (It should be noted as well that homosexual acts were outlawed the U.

OLYMPIAN G KENWORTHY ON HIS IMPACT AS THE 'GAY SKIER' — AND WHAT HAPPENED TO THOSE SOCHI DOGS

There, a fiery, unflchg athletic spectacle, Curry abandoned his ual lively route of skips and hops for a stern technil masterpiece, makg him the first openly gay athlete to perform on the Olympic stage.

WTER OLYMPICS: THREE OPENLY GAY MEN PETE FOR A SPOT ON U.S. OLYMPIC TEAM

LGBT journalists and historians, cludg Zeigler and Tony Scupham-Bilton, have talogued the many Olympians who were homosexual but peted a time before beg “out” was safe and acceptable. German nner Otto Peltzer, for stance, peted the 1928 and 1932 Olympics, but was arrted by the Nazis 1934 for his homosexualy and was later sent to the ncentratn mps.

GAY MOSW · CY GUI

Louganis was long mored to be gay, but didn’t e out publicly until the openg ceremoni of the 1994 Gay Gam: "Wele to the Gay Gam, ” Louganis said to the crowd. Though the early history of openly gay Olympians is dotted wh male athlet, openly gay women have quietly gaed prevalence recent petns. At the 2008 Summer Olympics Beijg, 11 openly gay athlet peted, only one of whom – Atralian diver Matthew Mcham, who won gold and is a vol LGBT activist – was a man.

All six openly gay athlet at the 2010 Wter Olympics Vanuver were women, as were all seven of the openly gay athlet at the 2014 Wter Olympics Sochi.

Both of the terveng Summer Olympics saw a greater turnout of openly gay athlet, but women still held the large majory. Women’s basketball team – Delle Donne, Brtney Grer, Seimone Augt and Angel McCoughtry––were openly gay. Wh this year’s Wter Gam Pyeongchang, Rippon and Kenworthy are the first openly gay Amerin men to pete the Olympics sce the legaly of same-sex marriage was tablished throughout the Uned Stat 2015, and the cultural shift is apparent.

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“In the 20th century there was more homophobia sport and society general. The summer before hostg the Wter Olympics, what many saw as an afont to gay rights activism, the Rsian ernment passed a law prohibg the promotn of “nontradnal” sexual relatnships to mors.