The athlete is now the first male World Cup alpe skier the world to publicly e out as gay, but the journey was no piic.
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- G KENWORTHY, WORLD CHAMPN SKIER, COM OUT AS GAY
- HIG ROBERTS SAYS LIFE IS ‘GENTLER AND EASIER’ SCE G OUT AS GAY LAST MONTH
- U.S. OLYMPIC SKIER G KENWORTHY OUT AS GAY
G KENWORTHY, WORLD CHAMPN SKIER, COM OUT AS GAY
* skier gay *
Natnal team, has e out as gay. "I didn't know what gay was terms of how that uld exist the spac I loved and the spac I found myself, which was sports, " he says. "I was not sure if what I was feelg was matchg up wh the way I was perceivg gayns at that time, which was obvly a wrong [pictn].
"I was tryg to balance the feelgs of beg gay but also not tly believg that [I] uld be succsful such a mascule sport.
There were moments where you hear homophobic slurs, and, you know, I was relyg on lots of sponsors to stay alive or equipment for money. And I would hear thgs that would make me very hant to believe that my reer uld ntue while also beg an intifiable gay man.
HIG ROBERTS SAYS LIFE IS ‘GENTLER AND EASIER’ SCE G OUT AS GAY LAST MONTH
World champn skier G Kenworthy, who took home a silver medal om the 2014 Sochi Olympic Gam, has e out as gay. * skier gay *
I wasn't able to be openly gay and be the person that I wanted to be.
The timg, to say nothg of the untry, wasn't que right to tell the world he was gay.
"I am gay, " Kenworthy said posts on Twter and Facebook which he shared the ver of the latt issue of the magaze. You n listen to the nversatn wh gay alpe skier Hig Roberts on the Megaphone player, or by visg Spotify for an easy browser player.
U.S. OLYMPIC SKIER G KENWORTHY OUT AS GAY
When G Kenworthy peted at the Sochi Olympics 2014 he was aaid that someone would fd out that he is gay -- fast-forward eight years and he is out * skier gay *
The first male ternatnal alpe ski petor to e out publicly, Roberts feels he has a rponsibily to help LGBTQ people skig see the acceptance that’s lyg there unr the surface, and to help everyone else skig fd ways to improve the environment the sport for gay athlet.
He said he was growg to accept that he was gay as a young man, but as he beme more succsful on the ski slop and saw no out gay men the sport, he felt he had to hi who he was.