Torment magaze profiled five snowboarrs who, until now, were not known to be gay: Tanner Pendleton, Kennedi Deck, Chad Unger, Jill Perks and Jake Kuzyk.
Contents:
- SKIER G KENWORTHY’S NEW LIFE AS AN OPENLY GAY ACTN SPORTS STAR
- SKIER G KENWORTHY GIV GAY ATHLET SOMETHG HE DIDN’T HAVE: A ROLE MOL
- WHY 'S IMPORTANT THAT SKIER G KENWORTHY ME OUT AS GAY
- 5 GAY SNOWBOARRS E OUT TOGETHER
SKIER G KENWORTHY’S NEW LIFE AS AN OPENLY GAY ACTN SPORTS STAR
At PyeongChang Olympics, one of two openly gay men on Team USA says beg closet ‘tak a toll on you.’ * gus gay snowboarder *
(Follow @alyroe on Twter) story is part of ESPN's ongog seri explorg what means to be an openly gay athlete the post-acceptance world. 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. If they knew he was gay, would the kids idolize him as much?
Would his iends stop g "gay" as a scriptor for all thgs that suck? Kenworthy knew he was gay as early as 5 years old and felt different om other boys. "Unls you're gay, beg gay has never been looked at as beg ol.
SKIER G KENWORTHY GIV GAY ATHLET SOMETHG HE DIDN’T HAVE: A ROLE MOL
It matters big time a sport where beg gay has long been thought of as unol. * gus gay snowboarder *
Gay marriage is legal now, attus are changg. Take, for stance, the former sponsor who ma a c anti-gay remark about why Kenworthy was once late to a petn. Take his physil therapist, who once told Kenworthy that he uldn't even image talkg to a gay guy all night.
WHY 'S IMPORTANT THAT SKIER G KENWORTHY ME OUT AS GAY
("I thought, 'You've talked to a gay guy for two hours a day, four days a week for seven months.
' ")Take the nstant dmbeat of livg a culture that the words "gay" and "fag" as monly as "stoked. Today, might be a Facebook rant or an Instagram post om a pro snowboarr who's annoyed that "skier fags" have filtrated another ntt or plag that a shoddy halfpipe is "gay.
5 GAY SNOWBOARRS E OUT TOGETHER
"I'm sure there have been gay actn sports athlet the past, " Dorey says. Eat your heart out, Mike Pence, and anyone else predisposed to sneerg at his good, gay took the etyle skier 24 years to get to this place — to stop hidg, to love himself unabashedly — and that is more valuable to him than his sloptyle silver medal om the Sochi Olympics. He and figure skater Adam Rippon are Team USA’s first openly gay male Wter Olympians.
And dog so as a gay man mak me feel amazg. And he’s gay.
“But there are also many parts of the world where beg gay is punishable by ath, punishable by jail time. #TeamUSA #TeamUSGay”Rippon has been outspoken his cricism of Vice Print Pence, who led the official U.