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is roller skating a gay thing

“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

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SEVEN FABULO “OUT” GAY MEN OF FIGURE SKATG

What is the associatn between rollerbladg and beg gay all about? Most of the quad skaters I know are gay women. As a gay man I do not get skatg, aggrsive skatg pecially, seems very much straight men.

Is jt that was mp and people were homophobic? How did the "Rollerbladg is gay" thg get started? Important Note: this blog only featur athlet who voluntarily, personally and publicly disclosed themselv as gay.

ROLLERSKATG IS SO GAY STICKER

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

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.

OAKS PARK GAY SKATE IS ON A ROLL

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? After all, was a gay functn, a part of town that totally remd me of my childhood, and I was gafully employed. There is an abundance of talented LGBTQ dividuals the sport, though the list of proment dividuals is entirely populated by gay men.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* IS ROLLER SKATING A GAY THING

Rollerskatg is So Gay Sticker .

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