VIDEO: Figure Skater Jason Brown On Comg Out As Gay, Overg Burnout

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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.

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

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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.

GAY FIGURE SKATER JASON BROWN BOBBLEHEAD HALL OF FAME

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. “I me out at 16-years-old as a proud, gay man, ” he told. His ma source of e is figure Brown: Rumors and Controversy/SndalThere are also mors that he is gay.

In the last four years, he has been through a personal journey, g out as gay last June. When asked if he felt pelled to make a statement about beg a gay athlete petg Cha, Brown ma clear that he’s foced on skatg, “Yeah, I thk for me our sport is such an credible outlet of exprsn, and so how we exprs ourselv through mic and our program is so important to what mak skatg so special. Amerin figure skater Jason Brown, who intifi as gay, has won a bronze medal one Olympics and peted another.

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