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.
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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
- THERE ARE 8 OUT GAY MALE SKATERS AT THE OLYMPICS. IN 2014, THERE WERE 0.
- 'GAYT SPORT AMERI'
- 16 GAY AND BI OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS
- SEVEN FABULO “OUT” GAY MEN OF FIGURE SKATG
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. * are most figure skaters gay *
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
Three figure skaters, Amerin Jason Brown and Canadians Pl Poirier and Kalyn Weaver, me out as gay and queer for Pri Month. * are most figure skaters gay *
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 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 ARE 8 OUT GAY MALE SKATERS AT THE OLYMPICS. IN 2014, THERE WERE 0.
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. * are most figure skaters gay *
“[Beg a gay athlete] hasn’t been somethg that I’ve really talked about very much, pecially a public settg, ” Poirier said. When the Wter Olympics figure skatg petn starts Beijg, there will be a rerd eight out gay men eher sgl, pairs or dance.
Outsports wrote Ambrosi and he said, “Y, I intify as gay and I’m out. I asked Chad Conley, a Canadian junr natnals silver medalist who now ach and is gay, what acunts for the crease the number of out male skaters.
“I do not thk there is a change the numbers of gay men figure skatg, ” he said. Dpe the rerd number of out male skaters, there are still issu, pecially wh ach and judg om the former Soviet Unn, where skatg — and homophobia — has a long tradn. In October, Alexanr Ven, a former ternatnal judge, said that bee Cizeron is gay, he was “ld” his performanc wh his ice dance partner Gabriella Papadakis.
'GAYT SPORT AMERI'
LeDuc has been amazg tellg their historic story to spire others, but the ncern is that there uld be homophobic judg who share the disgtg views of those two Rsians. Here are the out gay male skaters Beijg:.
16 GAY AND BI OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS
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.
SEVEN FABULO “OUT” GAY MEN OF FIGURE SKATG
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. "That somebody was rrelatg beg gay wh beg weak. Tle, makg LeDuc the first openly gay pairs U.