There have been 39 gay Olympic figure skaters. Here’s the list - Outsports

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• 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.

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

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 have e out for Pri Month, cludg two gay men and a queer woman.

THE ANTI-GAY ATMOSPHERE FIGURE SKATG

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.

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

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 .