The Anti-Gay Atmosphere Figure Skatg

Contents:

• THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 39 GAY OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS. HERE’S THE LIST
• THREE OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS E OUT — 2 GAY MEN AND 1 QUEER WOMAN
• THE ANTI-GAY ATMOSPHERE FIGURE SKATG
• THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 39 GAY OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS. HERE’S THE LIST

THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 39 GAY OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS. HERE’S THE LIST

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. 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:.

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... “[Beg a gay athlete] hasn’t been somethg that I’ve really talked about very much, pecially a public settg, ” Poirier said. [Photos: Gay rights activists taed at Olympic park]However, even the moment of his greatt triumph, the 26-year-old Whe did not want to publicly acknowledge Belb, who won an Olympic ice dance silver medal wh Ben Agosto 2006 and now works as an analyst for the Uned Stat Olympic Commtee prs nference he staged wh Davis after their emotnal victory over close iends Tsa Virtue and Stt Moir of Canada, Yahoo Sports quizzed Whe about whether his secrecy regardg Belb would now exchange went as follows:Yahoo Sports: "Hi guys, well done.

In 2013, he me out as gay. Then, December 2013, after tense speculatn surroundg his personal life, Boano me out as gay to the public. However, he did make history when he beme the first openly gay and Lato U.

THE ANTI-GAY ATMOSPHERE FIGURE SKATG

Back 1998, Orser me out as gay and is currently a relatnship wh Rajh Tiwari, who directs the Brian Orser Foundatn. Y, that’s right, Brian Boano is GAY! We are more acceptg of homosexualy now, explas Rosewater.

This, she subms, is the reason why “[e]ven on the wily read gay news webse, The Advote, word that Boano had e out was not among s top stori of the day. Controversy has been swirlg around this Olympics bee of Rsia’s officially hostile stance toward homosexualy. Nearly all the Olympic hopefuls figure skatg, cludg not merely Davis and Whe, but also Jeremy Abbot, Evan Lysacek, Gracie Gold, Mas Aaron, and Agn Zawadzki, have said they are not gog to take a public posn on the issue of gay rights.

” Acrdg to journalist Philip Hersh, Abbott had earlier pared speakg out Rsia on the issue of gay rights to gog to someone’s home and cricizg how they had rated .

THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 39 GAY OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS. HERE’S THE LIST

Dpe the prevalence of stum that are so revealg and tastels they would make the average pole dancer blh wh shame, the pervasive sexualizg of prepubcent girls (a la JonBenét Ramsey), and the disproportnate numbers of homosexual men, the sport is marked by an attu toward sexualy general that is so backward that the isolatn of the athlet and other participants om the larger society is the only possible explanatn for s persistence. The sport remas so vehemently anti-gay that many male skaters are far later acknowledgg and acceptg their sexual orientatn than are their peers outsi the sport. The only skater to be open about his homosexualy while he was still petg was Johnny Weir.

One would th hope that the ordarily outspoken Weir would take a public stand on Rsia’s treatment of gays. Only one figure skater has had the urage to speak out on the issue of gay rights Rsia. “I have gay fay members, ” she said, “and a lot of iends the LGBT muny… I believe we should all have equal rights.