Three Olympic figure skaters e out: 2 gay men and 1 queer woman - Outsports

Contents:

• THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 39 GAY OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS. HERE’S THE LIST
• SEVEN FABULO “OUT” GAY MEN OF FIGURE SKATG
• INTERNATNAL GAY FIGURE SKATG UNN
• THREE OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS E OUT — 2 GAY MEN AND 1 QUEER WOMAN
• 'GAYT SPORT AMERI'

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

There have been at least 39 gay men to pete figure skatg at the Wter Olympic Gam over the years, wh eight publicly out men petg 2022. LGBT historian Tony Scupham-Bilton has intified the men over the years, cludg a pastakg procs of intifyg who is gay.

The gay men have bed for 15 Olympic medals, wh several ready to pete pairs figure skatg later this week. Five other gay athlet have been named as alternat. In addn to the 37 gay men, Timothy LeDuc is nonbary and will make their Olympic but this week.

SEVEN FABULO “OUT” GAY MEN OF FIGURE SKATG

Six of the gay men to pete have won Olympic gold medals:. Important Note: this blog only featur athlet who voluntarily, personally and publicly disclosed themselv as gay.

NOTE January 2018: Sce this blog is almost two years old and this beg an Olympic year, I have now wrten and published “Seven More Fabulo Out Gay Men of Figure Skatg (and One Bisexual Woman. Please read “Five Key Msag on The Importance of Out Gay Olympic Athlet”. Recently, Out Magaze me out wh their list of “100 Hot Out Gay Men” which clud people entertament, sports, polics, bs, etc.

Therefore, sce the World Figure Skatg champnships are beg held next week (March 30 – April 3) Boston, first time the USA 8 years, I am publishg my own list of seven hot out gay men of Figure Skatg.

INTERNATNAL GAY FIGURE SKATG UNN

Print Obama appoted Brian, as an out proud gay man, as one our Amerin legat to the Wter Olympics Sochi, Rsia 2014 to unter some of the close-md anti-gay rhetoric of Rsian Print Vladmir Put (see my blog “Rsia, LGBT Rights and the Psychology of Bullyg”).

THREE OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS E OUT — 2 GAY MEN AND 1 QUEER WOMAN

Rudy is the first openly gay US champn and also later shared about beg HIV+.

'GAYT SPORT AMERI'

In December 2014, Eric Radford of Canada publicly me out as gay an terview wh the LGBT publitn Outsports, bemg the first petive figure skater ever to e out at the height of his reer while still a ntenr for champnship tl. Then March, 2015, Eric and his partner Megan Duhamel won the world pairs tle, makg him the first openly gay figure skater ever to w a gold medal at that petn.

He is an ambassador for the Canadian Olympic Commtee’s #OneTeam program to bat homophobia sports.

Adam Rippon out as gay a feature story of US Figure Skatg Magaze a few months ago and how do he follow up the story? Get the GayGamAward: A genero donor has provid funds for the first-ever IGFSU Gay Gam Figure Skatg Award. It will go to one skater and ver the Gay Gam registratn fee, skatg fe, ISI membership, and up to $200 travel expens.