The Olympic skier who helped fd hom for five stray dogs om Sochi now out as gay ESPN The Magaze to be ee and help others fd their way through their journeys.
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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
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. * skier gay *
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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 *
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. 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. 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.
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 *
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. 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 and proud, as are dozens of other athlet at the Beijg Brish-Amerin etyle skier, who won silver for the Uned Stat Sochi the sloptyle petn, famoly kissed his boyiend Matt Wilkas live on televisn before his qualifyg n four years later at the Olympics Pyeongchang.
“Hontly, means the world to me to get to pete here as an out proud gay man and to know that there are other out LGBTQ athlet that are here petg, ” he said. Kenworthy never thought he would see the day when he would be on the world stage as an out gay man and hop will reach the stage where stori such as his are no longer newsworthy. G Kenworthy, who won a silver medal skig's sloptyle event at the 2014 Wter Olympics, has e out as gay the latt issue of ESPN The Magaze.
And so, as we s down together Los Angel September, he begs the only way he knows how: "I gus I should start by sayg, ‘I'm gay. Md you, Kenworthy was gog through this as a gay men Sochi.