Johnny Weir admted Thursday what he's tried half-heartedly to hi all the years: He's gay.
Contents:
- 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. I’m gay, and that’s a story still beg wrten...
“[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. 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.
JOHNNY WEIR OUT: FLAMBOYANT FIGURE SKATER ADMS NEW TOBGRAPHY HE'S GAY
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 *
"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.
You don't have to be a whe, middle-aged gay sports fan om Massachetts to reprent me. But cryg Johnny for beg a "gay mstrel show" and plag that he's gettg too much attentn for sends Lemon's very clear msage.
Too often we get ught up worryg about stereotypil portrayals of gay men. Yet when to more "feme, " "flamboyant" men who f the age-old stereotyp of gay men, some feel the need to lash out. Here we have an out and out-there gay man hired by Olympic broadst work NBC to provi mentary on his sport and to do his job.