G Kenworthy, World Champn Skier, Com Out as Gay

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World champn skier G Kenworthy, who took home a silver medal om the 2014 Sochi Olympic Gam, has e out as gay.

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

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. * gus gay skier *

G Kenworthy beme the first Olympic skier to e out as gay 2015. When Amerin etyle skier G Kenworthy publicly me out as gay 2015, he helped change the landspe of then-24-year-old was sick of hidg who he really was, and even though he had jt won a silver medal at the 2014 Sochi Wter Olympics, he was more miserable than ever. Outsports lled "the gay sports moment of 2018.

"When I was younger all my role mols weren't gay role mols, they were jt sports role mols, " he said. Growg up Telluri, a ty ski town, Kenworthy didn't have too many role mols om the gay muny.

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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 * gus gay skier *

He looked up to celebri like Ricky Mart, Ellen Page, and Troye Sivan for g out, but he only knew one gay person his immediate circle.

"I actually have an uncle who's gay, " Kenworthy said, "and my fay ador my uncle Sam, but he and I many ways uldn't be more different.

I thk that was part of the thg that ma hard for me when I was g to terms wh the fact that I was gay. "I realized that 'gay' is jt part of someone, don't fe anythg else about them, " he said. 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.

G KENWORTHY, WORLD CHAMPN SKIER, COM OUT AS GAY

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“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.

“I am gay, ” the Amerin ekier tweeted. The timg, to say nothg of the untry, wasn't que right to tell the world he was gay.

"I am gay, " Kenworthy said posts on Twter and Facebook which he shared the ver of the latt issue of the magaze. (Follow @alyroe on Twter) story is part of ESPN's ongog seri explorg what means to be an openly gay athlete the post-acceptance world. And so, as we s down together Los Angel September, he begs the only way he knows how: "I gus I should start by sayg, 'I'm gay.

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In a new vio, Olympic etyle skier G Kenworthy explas why he cid to e out as gay a 'very public way.' * gus gay skier *

If they knew he was gay, would the kids idolize him as much?

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Would his iends stop g "gay" as a scriptor for all thgs that suck? Kenworthy knew he was gay as early as 5 years old and felt different om other boys. "Unls you're gay, beg gay has never been looked at as beg ol.

Gay marriage is legal now, attus are changg.

Take, for stance, the former sponsor who ma a c anti-gay remark about why Kenworthy was once late to a petn. Take his physil therapist, who once told Kenworthy that he uldn't even image talkg to a gay guy all night. ("I thought, 'You've talked to a gay guy for two hours a day, four days a week for seven months.

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' ")Take the nstant dmbeat of livg a culture that the words "gay" and "fag" as monly as "stoked. Today, might be a Facebook rant or an Instagram post om a pro snowboarr who's annoyed that "skier fags" have filtrated another ntt or plag that a shoddy halfpipe is "gay. "I'm sure there have been gay actn sports athlet the past, " Dorey says.

In a new vio, Olympic etyle skier G Kenworthy explas why he cid to e out as gay a 'very public way.

Olympic etyle skier G Kenworthy isn’t g home wh a medal, but he’s had plenty of public support as one of the first openly gay Amerin men to pete the Wter Gam. “My childhood self would never have dreamed of seeg a gay kiss on TV at the Olympics but for the first time ever a kid watchg at home CAN!

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