Three Olympic figure skaters e out: 2 gay men and 1 queer woman - Outsports

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• THREE OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS E OUT — 2 GAY MEN AND 1 QUEER WOMAN
• VIDEO: FIGURE SKATER JASON BROWN ON COMG OUT AS GAY, OVERG BURNOUT
• GAY FIGURE SKATER JASON BROWN BOBBLEHEAD HALL OF FAME

THREE OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS E OUT — 2 GAY MEN AND 1 QUEER WOMAN

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...

VIDEO: FIGURE SKATER JASON BROWN ON COMG OUT AS GAY, OVERG BURNOUT

“[Beg a gay athlete] hasn’t been somethg that I’ve really talked about very much, pecially a public settg, ” Poirier said. Four months after publicly g out, the figure skater, 26, is thrivg as a proud gay man and reprentg his sport wh more love than ever before as he attempts his send Olympic n at the Beijg Gam.

I have five other openly gay, LGBTQ+ s. I've had ach sce I was five that have been gay and 's jt always been around me, " Brown said.

I jt remember hearg a lot of people that I knew talk about what was like beg gay and the stggle that was, " Brown said.

GAY FIGURE SKATER JASON BROWN BOBBLEHEAD HALL OF FAME

I'm gay, and that's a story still beg wrten, " he ntued. “This is a young man who grew up a hoehold where his father is a reer gay… I’ve lerally been on televisn, open and proud about my sexualy, worked social servic wh LGBT youth, he was around LGBT youth and adults, he’s seen the healthy relatnship that I’ve been for ten years — yet there was still a fear his md of sharg wh me. The TV star add: “When I got ctody of Jason, people said, ‘Don’t have your son be raised wh a gay man, bee ’s gog to turn him gay, ’ and obvly, I know that’s ignorant, I know that’s not te… but when he let me to his life [about his pansexualy], I immediately thought, ‘Oh, here we go.