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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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. When Adam Rippon pet at the Olympics this year, will be the first time an openly gay figure skater reprents the Uned Stat an dividual event. But figure skatg has always provid an athletic arena for gay men, even if most historilly waed to e out publicly after their Olympic reer me to a close.
But he kept his sexualy a private matter until 2014, when the Uned Stat sent a legatn to Rsia ma up of high-profile gay athlet. "I never felt like I need to before, so whether people figured out if I was gay or not, I had to make official, why I had to e out publicly."Brian Orser, Canada, Men's SglOne of skatg's greatt stars the 1980s, Canada's Orser won silver at both the 1984 Olympics Sarajevo and the 1988 Olympics Calgary, the latter petg agast Brian Boano the famo "Battle of the Brians." He would go on to a world-class achg reer.