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INTERNATNAL GAY FIGURE SKATG UNN

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Get the GayGamAward: A genero donor has provid funds for the first-ever IGFSU Gay Gam Figure Skatg Award.

It will go to one skater and ver the Gay Gam registratn fee, skatg fe, ISI membership, and up to $200 travel expens. 06/12/2023: Dat for Gay Gam Figure Skatg Competn and show are official now (practise: nov 6th and 7th; petn: nov 8th and 9th; show: nov 10th show)03/05/2023: Rul for Figure Skatg Guadalajara are onle. 02/14/2022:Two hosts at the Gay Gam 2023: The host Gay Gam Hong Kong and the FGG announce Guadalajara as -host of 11th Gay Gam 2023.

11/12/2021: Valeni official host of GAY GAMES XII: Valencia signs official license Agreement: Valencia is now the Official Host of Gay Gam imprsns on same sex upl. IGFSU and the Gay GamIGFSU was found 1991 by Arthur Luiz and Lra Moore, as part of a succsful bid to get figure skatg to the Gay Gam New 1999, we beme a member anizatn of the Feratn of Gay Gam.

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

LGBTQ Olympians om around the world will pete the Wter Olympics. Get to know the gay, lbian, bi, trans and queer athlet of the 2022 Gam. * gay games figure skating *

By then had bee clear that we need sanctng/ endorsements for skaters to partner the Gay Gam regardls of genr. IGFSU partnered wh Gay Gam hosts 2002 Sydney, Atralia, 2006 Chigo, USA, 2010 Koeln, Germany, 2014 Cleveland+Akron, USA and 2018 Paris, France nng events unlike any other figure skatg 2018 Gay Gam Paris clud an ISU petn. This was groundbreakg for both ISU and the Gay Gam, but did mean that ISU l stumg and partnerg had to be followed that portn of the the Gay Gam Hong Kong a ISI petn is planned that will clu multiple skatg opportuni for each participant and wel all skaters, sgl, pairs and ice dance, as well as will be tegori for begners through ternatnal ele skaters.

If you are trag a program for ISU, you will be able to skate remas active wh the FGG today and is regnized as the official erng body of figure skatg for the Gay are exced to see ele figure skaters g strive to support LGBTQ+ skaters, ach, judg. 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.

WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE

Tom Wadll, an athlete the 1968 Olympics, created the Gay Gam first held 1982 to celebrate LGBTQ cln. The Gay Gam are still held to this day wh the next round schled for 2022 Hong Kong. * gay games figure skating *

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.

In addn to the 37 gay men, Timothy LeDuc is nonbary and will make their Olympic but this week.

THE GAY GAM HAVE MEANT THE WORLD TO THIS FIGURE SKATER

It will also be the first Olympics where the 2015 natnal champn will pete as an out gay man. Rippon ma history 2018, beg the first out gay man to pete at the Wter Olympics.

A total of 186 publicly out gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, queer and nonbary athlet participated the Tokyo Gam, acrdg to Not only was that the most at any Olympics ever, but was also more than triple the number of LGBTQ athlet at the 2016 R Gam. Andrew Blaser will bee the first openly gay man to pete skeleton at the Olympics.

GAY GAM GET FIGURE SKATG BREAKTHROUGH FOR PARIS 2018

The 27-year-old Cizeron, who is gay, and 26-year-old Papadakis have formed a domant partnership, pturg four World Champnship tl, five European Champnship tl and seven natnal tl. Jt like Jason Brown, Canadian ice dancer Pl Poirier also me out as gay durg Pri Month 2021.

Radford and partner Meagan Duhamel skated to a first-place fish the team event, makg Radford the first openly gay man to w gold at a Wter Olympics. Amerin Robert Dover was the first openly gay athlete to pete at the Olympic Gam. Peltzer ran at the 1928 Amsterdam and 1932 Los Angel Olympics before he was arrted and imprisoned by the Nazis for his homosexualy 1935.

Atralian diver Matthew Mcham was the first openly gay athlete to w gold at the Olympics. It wasn’t until the 2018 Gam when Team USA featured s first openly gay Wter Olympians, as figure skater Adam Rippon, ekier G Kenworthy and speed skater Brtany Bowe peted PyeongChang.

WHY THE FIRST GAY OLYMPICS WAS A WATERSHED MOMENT SPORTS

Rippon earned bronze the 2018 team figure skatg petn to make him the Uned Stat’ first openly gay medalist at the Wter Gam.

His gay and lbian iends San Francis, though, had never experienced an event as thrillg or movg as the openg ceremony.

And so Wadll created the Gay Gam – then lled the Gay Olympics, until the Internatnal Olympic Commtee sued over the name. “The formula for succs was visibily and inty, ” Wadll said an terview followg the first Gay Gam 1982.

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