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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

Dunn Sullivan is the first ex-hband of Phoebe Buffay. He is portrayed by Steve Zahn. He was a Canadian ice skater who married Phoebe to get a green rd. Dunn Sullivan was a good iend of Phoebe Buffay. Dunn was thought to be gay and he was on a green rd and he was nearly ported... * friends gay ice skater *

Six years after gettg married, Dunn returns to New York to ask Phoebe for a divorce bee he realized he's not gay and wants to marry a woman he is love wh.

16 GAY AND BI OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS

Guillme Cizeron is the sixth gay man to w Olympic gold figure skatg. * friends gay ice skater *

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. You n fd untls pop culture referenc about skatg where 's a punch le to a joke -- TV shows like Friends ("I'm an ice dancer -- all my iends are gay!

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

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That uldn't be farther om the prence of queer skaters the sport n be traced as far back as the 1950s, wasn't until 2018 that Adam Rippon and Eric Radford beme the first out gay figure skaters to pete at the Olympics.

" Of urse, there have been numero gay skaters at the Olympics -- multiple queer Olympic champns, even... We had to sort of play by those l bee beg gay on the Olympic stage and the world stage, an ele athlete, you have to be reful bee the reputatn of endorsements was on the table.

So we had to be very mdful of that, and I knew that, so I had to sort of lie and not be tthful about all [my skatg partner Tai and I] turned pro 1980, and did Ice Capas and all that, was a ltle better bee people on the show were gay.

SEVEN FABULO “OUT” GAY MEN OF FIGURE SKATG

Three figure skaters, Amerin Jason Brown and Canadians Pl Poirier and Kalyn Weaver, me out as gay and queer for Pri Month. * friends gay ice skater *

I thk that the outsi assumptn is that everybody skatg is gay, and that bee of that would jt be a very safe place for queer people. As soon as I entered a more ser rk when I was around 10, and really started pursug more serly, I was super, super nsc of the fact that they were nng a b through every kid through the lens of "Is this kid gay?

THERE ARE 8 OUT GAY MALE SKATERS AT THE OLYMPICS. IN 2014, THERE WERE 0.

As the Sochi Olympic Gam kick off, everyone's talkg about homophobia Rsia, but nobody's talkg about figure skatg's gay problem * friends gay ice skater *

" I mean, I was asked if I was gay at a very, very young age and told that I was gay and told that I was very, very, very gay-- jt like the most. I thk 's only seen [that there is] one kd of queer person, which is a gay person-- and to be hont, a gay man. [Growg up, ] my only unrstandg of gay people or of queer people was when our prit, our preacher, was speakg about them the church.

And would be a hellfire speech sayg, "gay people are abomatns and gog to hell" and "you better not be gay. Joe has talked about [how] he felt trated by the fact that people jt assumed he was a gay man bee he was a figure skater. Natnal champn and a two-time world middle school and certaly high school, was like, "Oh, you [do] figure skatg, you mt be gay, " and people askg me, "Oh, well, if you n skate that well, why don't you play hockey?

I n tell you for certa I wasn't gog to get up at my [2002] Olympic prs nference and be like, "Oh, and by the way, I'm gay.

OUT GAY FIGURE SKATER JIMMY MAN: I OWN MY NARRATIVE

Last week, Amerin figure skater Adam Rippon ma history as the first openly gay man to qualify for the U.S. team at the wter Olympics. * friends gay ice skater *

Figure Skatg Diversy, Equy, and Incln Task kd of knew of the officials that were gay, maybe some of the skaters that were gay, but they didn't really talk about .

I was almost dyg to learn this history of gays skatg that I didn't even know about bee was somethg that nobody ever talked about. I would even say, to this day, I'm still learng more and more about wonrful ntributors to this sport of figure skatg the past that we maybe didn't hear so much about jt bee they were gay.

When Adam Rippon pet at the Olympics this year, will be the first time an openly gay figure skater reprents the Uned Stat an dividual event. But figure skatg has always provid an athletic arena for gay men, even if most historilly waed to e out publicly after their Olympic reer me to a close.

GAY ABANDON REQUIRED OZEN CLOSET OF MALE ICE SKATG

Figure skater Adam Rippon and skier G Kenworthy are the very first openly gay U.S. athlet to qualify for the Wter Olympics" emprop="scriptn * friends gay ice skater *

But he kept his sexualy a private matter until 2014, when the Uned Stat sent a legatn to Rsia ma up of high-profile gay athlet. "I never felt like I need to before, so whether people figured out if I was gay or not, I had to make official, why I had to e out publicly.

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

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