“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
Contents:
- SEVEN FABULO “OUT” GAY MEN OF FIGURE SKATG
- ROLLERSKATG IS SO GAY STICKER
- VTAGE ST. PETE: WHEN GAY BLAS WAS THE CENTER OF THE SKATG UNIVERSE
- OAKS PARK GAY SKATE IS ON A ROLL
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?
ROLLERSKATG IS SO GAY STICKER
Important Note: this blog only featur athlet who voluntarily, personally and publicly disclosed themselv as gay. 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. 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.
OAKS PARK GAY SKATE IS ON A ROLL
Skaters still ment on the prsure to rema the closet while petg and to avoid speakg out about LGBTQ rights, though is also nsired one of the gayt sports.
Bra's gay Capta Robert Jon popularized the sport of figure skatg back 1772 wh his highly popular book 'A Treatise on Skatg'. Canadian Eric Radford was the first out gay man to w an Olympic gold medal when he did so recently at the 2018 South Korea gam (Bra's John Curry won gold 1976 before g out publicly). Bra's gay Rob Cos is the most rated Brish ice skater.