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World champn skier G Kenworthy, who took home a silver medal om the 2014 Sochi Olympic Gam, has e out as gay.

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U.S. OLYMPIC SKIER G KENWORTHY 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. * gay olympic skier *

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.

G KENWORTHY, WORLD CHAMPN SKIER, COM OUT AS GAY

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. * gay olympic skier *

I wasn't able to be openly gay and be the person that I wanted to be. 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. Aymoz is openly gay, g out the documentary “We Need to Talk” 2021.

Jason Brown (@jasonbskat) is an openly gay figure skater reprentg Team USA.

Guillme Cizeron (@GuillmeCIZ) is an openly gay figure skater petg for Team France. Lewis Gibson (@Lewisgibson4) is an openly gay figure skater reprentg Team Great Bra.

THERE ARE A RERD 11 OPENLY GAY MALE OLYMPIANS R. NONE IS AN AMERIN.

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Pl Poirier (@PlDPoirier) is an openly gay figure skater on Team Canada. Radford ma history as the first petive figure skater to e out as gay while still petg for champnship tl 2014, pavg the way for future LGBTQ+ athlet to e out. Andrew Blaser (@andrewblaser) is an openly gay skeleton slir for Team USA.

G Kenworthy (@gkenworthy) is an openly gay etyle skier and a dual cizen of Great Bra and the Uned Stat. 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. 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.

OLYMPIC SKIER G KENWORTHY ON G OUT AS GAY, TURNG PRO, AND HOW HE BALANC SPORTS, ACTG, AND ADVOCY

G Kenworthy beme the first Olympic skier to e out as gay 2015. Ever sce, his skig has gotten better, and he's gotten more succsful. * gay olympic skier *

When the Olympics start this weekend R Janeiro, there will be a rerd 41 publicly out gay, lbian and bisexual athlet.

Includ this total are a rerd 11 gay male athlet. Diver Patrick Jefey was openly gay as a diver the 1996 Olympics.

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LGBTQ Olympians om around the world will pete the Wter Olympics. Get to know the gay, lbian, bi, trans and queer athlet of the 2022 Gam. * gay olympic skier *

G Kenworthy beme the first Olympic skier to e out as gay 2015. When Amerin etyle skier G Kenworthy publicly me out as gay 2015, he helped change the landspe of then-24-year-old was sick of hidg who he really was, and even though he had jt won a silver medal at the 2014 Sochi Wter Olympics, he was more miserable than ever.

Outsports lled "the gay sports moment of 2018. "When I was younger all my role mols weren't gay role mols, they were jt sports role mols, " he said. Growg up Telluri, a ty ski town, Kenworthy didn't have too many role mols om the gay muny.

He looked up to celebri like Ricky Mart, Ellen Page, and Troye Sivan for g out, but he only knew one gay person his immediate circle.

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