Adam Rippon may be the first out figure skater to pete the Olympics, but he's not the only gay man to have land an axel on the world stage.
Contents:
- THREE OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS E OUT — 2 GAY MEN AND 1 QUEER WOMAN
- THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 39 GAY OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS. HERE’S THE LIST
- 16 GAY AND BI OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS
- SEVEN FABULO “OUT” GAY MEN OF FIGURE SKATG
- 'GAYT SPORT AMERI'
- INTERNATNAL GAY FIGURE SKATG UNN
THREE OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS E OUT — 2 GAY MEN AND 1 QUEER WOMAN
Three figure skaters, Amerin Jason Brown and Canadians Pl Poirier and Kalyn Weaver, me out as gay and queer for Pri Month. * ice skating gay *
Three Olympic figure skaters have e out for Pri Month, cludg two gay men and a queer woman. The three athlet are: Amerin sgl figure skater Jason Brown, who is gay; Canadian ice dancer Pl Poirier, who is gay, and Canadian ice dancer Kalyn Weaver, who is queer.
I’m gay, and that’s a story still beg wrten...
THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 39 GAY OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS. HERE’S THE LIST
Guillme Cizeron is the sixth gay man to w Olympic gold figure skatg. * ice skating gay *
“[Beg a gay athlete] hasn’t been somethg that I’ve really talked about very much, pecially a public settg, ” Poirier said.
There have been at least 39 gay men to pete figure skatg at the Wter Olympic Gam over the years, wh eight publicly out men petg 2022. LGBT historian Tony Scupham-Bilton has intified the men over the years, cludg a pastakg procs of intifyg who is gay.
16 GAY AND BI OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS
* ice skating gay *
The gay men have bed for 15 Olympic medals, wh several ready to pete pairs figure skatg later this week.
Five other gay athlet have been named as alternat. In addn to the 37 gay men, Timothy LeDuc is nonbary and will make their Olympic but this week.
Six of the gay men to pete have won Olympic gold medals:.
SEVEN FABULO “OUT” GAY MEN OF FIGURE SKATG
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. * ice skating gay *
I knew other skaters that were gay and even officials and people the prs. Goebel ntued: "It was my unrstandg, and I'm nfint was an unrstandg wily held by most of my ntemporari, that beg openly gay would negatively impact the abily of an athlete to reach their full potential. "There was a hidn layer of, 'don't be so gay, '" Rippon said.
Oftentim, this feedback was om a gay official or judge.
'GAYT SPORT AMERI'
In a way, I know that they were tryg to protect me, but was almost them puttg out their own issu wh homophobia that they faced so that I wouldn't have to face them myself.
LeDuc, who me out to his fay and iends when he was 18, stepped away om petive skatg 2014 part due a homophobic teractn wh a potential partner.
INTERNATNAL GAY FIGURE SKATG UNN
"That somebody was rrelatg beg gay wh beg weak. Tle, makg LeDuc the first openly gay pairs U. Ice dancer Joe Johnson, who me out as gay 2013, and partner Kara Manta, who me out as bisexual 2018, ma history the fall of that year as the first out LGBTQ+ ice dance team.