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Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.

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

Three figure skaters, Amerin Jason Brown and Canadians Pl Poirier and Kalyn Weaver, me out as gay and queer for Pri Month. * gay skater coming out *

It will also be the first Olympics where the 2015 natnal champn will pete as an out gay man. Rippon ma history 2018, beg the first out gay man to pete at the Wter Olympics. 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.

THERE ARE 8 OUT GAY MALE SKATERS AT THE OLYMPICS. IN 2014, THERE WERE 0.

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FOR CHAMPN SKATER CHRISTOPHER CALUZA, G OUT AS GAY WAS A WORTHWHILE JOURNEY

“[Beg a gay athlete] hasn’t been somethg that I’ve really talked about very much, pecially a public settg, ” Poirier said. When the Wter Olympics figure skatg petn starts Beijg, there will be a rerd eight out gay men eher sgl, pairs or dance. Outsports wrote Ambrosi and he said, “Y, I intify as gay and I’m out.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

I asked Chad Conley, a Canadian junr natnals silver medalist who now ach and is gay, what acunts for the crease the number of out male skaters. “I do not thk there is a change the numbers of gay men figure skatg, ” he said.

Dpe the rerd number of out male skaters, there are still issu, pecially wh ach and judg om the former Soviet Unn, where skatg — and homophobia — has a long tradn.

In October, Alexanr Ven, a former ternatnal judge, said that bee Cizeron is gay, he was “ld” his performanc wh his ice dance partner Gabriella Papadakis. LeDuc has been amazg tellg their historic story to spire others, but the ncern is that there uld be homophobic judg who share the disgtg views of those two Rsians. Here are the out gay male skaters Beijg:.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

For champn skater Christopher Caluza, g out as gay was a worthwhile journey. Where I am now — as an openly gay ternatnal figure skater — me om a lot of stggle. When I was growg up, beg gay was treated as a joke, but I learned more about myself llege.

I me out as gay as an adult and beg out to my peers skatg helped me velop a strong motivatn and a sense of eedom. I me out on Facebook to my fay members when gay marriage beme legal all 50 stat 2015.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

That ma me the first openly gay athlete reprentg the Philipp to w an ternatnal petn on the senr level. My msage to young athlet lookg up to Olympians is that behd every athlete, gay or straight, is a person who has stggled some way — mentally, physilly or both. Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.

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