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Contents:
- THREE OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS E OUT — 2 GAY MEN AND 1 QUEER WOMAN
- THERE ARE 8 OUT GAY MALE SKATERS AT THE OLYMPICS. IN 2014, THERE WERE 0.
- FOR CHAMPN SKATER CHRISTOPHER CALUZA, G OUT AS GAY WAS A WORTHWHILE JOURNEY
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
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.
THERE ARE 8 OUT GAY MALE SKATERS AT THE OLYMPICS. IN 2014, THERE WERE 0.
Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * gay skater coming out *
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 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. 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.
FOR CHAMPN SKATER CHRISTOPHER CALUZA, G OUT AS GAY WAS A WORTHWHILE JOURNEY
“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:. For champn skater Christopher Caluza, g out as gay was a worthwhile journey.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
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. That ma me the first openly gay athlete reprentg the Philipp to w an ternatnal petn on the senr level.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
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.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.
Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021. Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league.
After g out as gay an Instagram post 2020, Bank hop to show younger athlet “that they n be whomever they are, or want to be, whout discrimatn.