“All skate, all skate!” When Elynor Gould’s voice me over the public addrs system at Gay Blas Roller Rk, the skaters on the floor – sometim numberg the hundreds – knew that the upl’ skate, backwards skate, Hokey Pokey or other specialty spotlight was over. “All skate” was the announcement that everyone, no matter
Contents:
- SEVEN FABULO “OUT” GAY MEN OF FIGURE SKATG
- VTAGE ST. PETE: WHEN GAY BLAS WAS THE CENTER OF THE SKATG UNIVERSE
- THREE OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS E OUT — 2 GAY MEN AND 1 QUEER WOMAN
SEVEN FABULO “OUT” GAY MEN OF FIGURE SKATG
* homosexual on roller skates *
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. 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”).
VTAGE ST. PETE: WHEN GAY BLAS WAS THE CENTER OF THE SKATG UNIVERSE
Three figure skaters, Amerin Jason Brown and Canadians Pl Poirier and Kalyn Weaver, me out as gay and queer for Pri Month. * homosexual on roller skates *
Rudy is the first openly gay US champn and also later shared about beg HIV+. 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? When Elynor Gould’s voice me over the public addrs system at Gay Blas Roller Rk, the skaters on the floor – sometim numberg the hundreds – knew that the upl’ skate, backwards skate, Hokey Pokey or other specialty spotlight was over.
THREE OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS E OUT — 2 GAY MEN AND 1 QUEER WOMAN
Gay Blas, photographed 1964.