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.
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- 16 GAY AND BI OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS
- JOHNNY WEIR OUT: FLAMBOYANT FIGURE SKATER ADMS NEW TOBGRAPHY HE'S GAY
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 figure skater announcer *
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.
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“[Beg a gay athlete] hasn’t been somethg that I’ve really talked about very much, pecially a public settg,” Poirier said. Gay NBC figure skatg mentator Johnny Weir has been the target of some cricism durg the Olympics.
JOHNNY WEIR OUT: FLAMBOYANT FIGURE SKATER ADMS NEW TOBGRAPHY HE'S GAY
* gay figure skater announcer *
The heat directed at the out gay figure skatg champn hasn't e om anti-gay Rsians, but om gay Amerins here at home. We mt do everythg we n to stand up to those homophob! Yet here we have a well-known gay Amerin - Johnny Weir - dog that very thg, standg up to the Rsians and refg to back away om who he is, and LGBT people are slightg and attackg him for .
The out gay journalist appeared as a gut on another CNN show over the weekend to lob anti-feme jabs at Johnny. "No one lik a gay mstrel show, " Lemon said, "so let's jt put that out there.
About some of his flamboyant and over the top and all those, seems those are the people who get the attentn, but they don't reprent all of gay Ameri.