Gay athlet are makg history at the Wter Olympics | CNN

Contents:

• WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE
• GAY ATHLET ARE MAKG HISTORY AT THE 2018 WTER OLYMPICS
• THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 39 GAY OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS. HERE’S THE LIST
• WTER OLYMPICS: THREE OPENLY GAY MEN PETE FOR A SPOT ON U.S. OLYMPIC TEAM
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF OPENLY GAY OLYMPIANS
• GAY ATHLET MAKE HISTORY AT WTER OLYMPICS
• ADAM RIPPON MA HISTORY AS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY AMERIN MAN TO W AT THE WTER OLYMPICS

WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE

A total of 186 publicly out gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, queer and nonbary athlet participated the Tokyo Gam, acrdg to Not only was that the most at any Olympics ever, but was also more than triple the number of LGBTQ athlet at the 2016 R Gam. Andrew Blaser will bee the first openly gay man to pete skeleton at the Olympics.

Brown me out as gay durg Pri Month, June, of last year. The 27-year-old Cizeron, who is gay, and 26-year-old Papadakis have formed a domant partnership, pturg four World Champnship tl, five European Champnship tl and seven natnal tl. LeDuc beme the first openly gay athlete to w a U.

GAY ATHLET ARE MAKG HISTORY AT THE 2018 WTER OLYMPICS

Mouat, who is gay, had himself que the 2021. Jt like Jason Brown, Canadian ice dancer Pl Poirier also me out as gay durg Pri Month 2021.

Radford and partner Meagan Duhamel skated to a first-place fish the team event, makg Radford the first openly gay man to w gold at a Wter Olympics. Who was the first openly gay Olympian?

Amerin Robert Dover was the first openly gay athlete to pete at the Olympic Gam. Peltzer ran at the 1928 Amsterdam and 1932 Los Angel Olympics before he was arrted and imprisoned by the Nazis for his homosexualy 1935. Atralian diver Matthew Mcham was the first openly gay athlete to w gold at the Olympics.

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

It wasn’t until the 2018 Gam when Team USA featured s first openly gay Wter Olympians, as figure skater Adam Rippon, ekier G Kenworthy and speed skater Brtany Bowe peted PyeongChang. Rippon earned bronze the 2018 team figure skatg petn to make him the Uned Stat’ first openly gay medalist at the Wter Gam.

At least 36 publicly out gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, queer, pansexual and non-bary athlet will be Beijg for the 2022 Wter Olympic Gam, double the amount who peted 2018, cludg the largt share of men.

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

And Canadian soccer player Qun beme the first openly transgenr and nonbary athlete to w an Olympic medal — a gold — followg Team Canada’s feat of Swen the women’s fal last while Team USA will ga an Olympic first wh the addn of LeDuc, will also be losg some star 2018, etyle skier G Kenworthy and figure skater Adam Rippon ma history as the first openly gay men to pete the Wter Gam for the Uned Stat.

Reflectg on his experience four years ago, Rippon — who is also the first openly gay athlete om the U. Homosexualy has been legal Cha sce 1997, but recent years, the untry has worked to lim LGBTQ activism and 11 years operatn, Shanghai Pri nceled s annual LGBTQ celebratn 2020 and said — whout explanatn — that would no longer hold the event. And last week, the gay datg app Grdr was removed om several Che app stor after the untry’s cyberspace thory vowed to ensure a “healthy, ftive and spic onle environment” for the Lunar New Year, which began this week.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF OPENLY GAY OLYMPIANS

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.

GAY ATHLET MAKE HISTORY AT WTER OLYMPICS

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ADAM RIPPON MA HISTORY AS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY AMERIN MAN TO W AT THE WTER OLYMPICS

"I had an opportuny to meet and jo a meetg of a middle school Gay Straight Alliance this past year, and when I left that meetg the teacher said they've never seen an out female athlete and they've never met someone that talked so openly about their same sex partner and thgs like that, " Jenner told Spectm News 2020.

"I was secure and ashamed, " Kenworth told ESPN 2015 of his life before g out as gay. "Unls you're gay, beg gay has never been looked at as beg ol. "If I n spire other kids, pecially gay kids, and make them stronger or feel normal, that's worth more than any medal to me, " she told The Advote 2018.