U.S. Olympic skier G Kenworthy out as gay - Outsports

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• U.S. OLYMPIC SKIER G KENWORTHY OUT AS GAY
• G KENWORTHY, WORLD CHAMPN SKIER, COM OUT AS GAY
• OLYMPIC SKIER G KENWORTHY ON G OUT AS GAY, TURNG PRO, AND HOW HE BALANC SPORTS, ACTG, AND ADVOCY
• OPENLY GAY ETYLE SKIER WHO WON A SILVER MEDAL AT THE 2014 WTER OLYMPICS: 2 WDS. CROSSWORD CLUE
• WTER OLYMPICS 2018: GAY SKIER G KENWORTHY CRICIZ MIKE PENCE ON 'ELLEN'

U.S. OLYMPIC SKIER G KENWORTHY OUT AS GAY

Natnal team, has e out as gay. "I didn't know what gay was terms of how that uld exist the spac I loved and the spac I found myself, which was sports, " he says. "I was not sure if what I was feelg was matchg up wh the way I was perceivg gayns at that time, which was obvly a wrong [pictn].

"I was tryg to balance the feelgs of beg gay but also not tly believg that [I] uld be succsful such a mascule sport.

G KENWORTHY, WORLD CHAMPN SKIER, COM OUT AS GAY

There were moments where you hear homophobic slurs, and, you know, I was relyg on lots of sponsors to stay alive or equipment for money. And I would hear thgs that would make me very hant to believe that my reer uld ntue while also beg an intifiable gay man.

I wasn't able to be openly gay and be the person that I wanted to be. After g out as gay an Instagram post 2020, Bank hop to show younger athlet “that they n be whomever they are, or want to be, whout discrimatn.

Aymoz is openly gay, g out the documentary “We Need to Talk” 2021. Jason Brown (@jasonbskat) is an openly gay figure skater reprentg Team USA. Guillme Cizeron (@GuillmeCIZ) is an openly gay figure skater petg for Team France.

OLYMPIC SKIER G KENWORTHY ON G OUT AS GAY, TURNG PRO, AND HOW HE BALANC SPORTS, ACTG, AND ADVOCY

Lewis Gibson (@Lewisgibson4) is an openly gay figure skater reprentg Team Great Bra.

Pl Poirier (@PlDPoirier) is an openly gay figure skater on Team Canada.

Radford ma history as the first petive figure skater to e out as gay while still petg for champnship tl 2014, pavg the way for future LGBTQ+ athlet to e out. Andrew Blaser (@andrewblaser) is an openly gay skeleton slir for Team USA.

OPENLY GAY ETYLE SKIER WHO WON A SILVER MEDAL AT THE 2014 WTER OLYMPICS: 2 WDS. CROSSWORD CLUE

G Kenworthy (@gkenworthy) is an openly gay etyle skier and a dual cizen of Great Bra and the Uned Stat. G Kenworthy, who won a silver medal skig's sloptyle event at the 2014 Wter Olympics, has e out as gay the latt issue of ESPN The Magaze.

And so, as we s down together Los Angel September, he begs the only way he knows how: "I gus I should start by sayg, ‘I'm gay. Md you, Kenworthy was gog through this as a gay men Sochi.

WTER OLYMPICS 2018: GAY SKIER G KENWORTHY CRICIZ MIKE PENCE ON 'ELLEN'

The timg, to say nothg of the untry, wasn't que right to tell the world he was gay. "I am gay, " Kenworthy said posts on Twter and Facebook which he shared the ver of the latt issue of the magaze. When G Kenworthy peted at the Sochi Olympics 2014 he was aaid that someone would fd out that he is gay -- fast-forward eight years and he is out and proud, as are dozens of other athlet at the Beijg Brish-Amerin etyle skier, who won silver for the Uned Stat Sochi the sloptyle petn, famoly kissed his boyiend Matt Wilkas live on televisn before his qualifyg n four years later at the Olympics Pyeongchang.

“Hontly, means the world to me to get to pete here as an out proud gay man and to know that there are other out LGBTQ athlet that are here petg, ” he said. Kenworthy never thought he would see the day when he would be on the world stage as an out gay man and hop will reach the stage where stori such as his are no longer newsworthy. However, this year’s Wter Gam will also be cemented history for s rerd number of openly LGBTQ least 35 of this year’s Olympic athlet are openly lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or queer, more than double the amount of queer petors om the 2018 wter petn PyeongChang, South Korea, acrdg to the LGBTQ sports webse Outsports.

And Canadian soccer player Qun beme the first openly transgenr and nonbary athlete to w an Olympic medal — a gold — followg Team Canada’s feat of Swen the women’s fal last while Team USA will ga an Olympic first wh the addn of LeDuc, will also be losg some star 2018, etyle skier G Kenworthy and figure skater Adam Rippon ma history as the first openly gay men to pete the Wter Gam for the Uned Stat. Reflectg on his experience four years ago, Rippon — who is also the first openly gay athlete om the U.

Homosexualy has been legal Cha sce 1997, but recent years, the untry has worked to lim LGBTQ activism and 11 years operatn, Shanghai Pri nceled s annual LGBTQ celebratn 2020 and said — whout explanatn — that would no longer hold the event. And last week, the gay datg app Grdr was removed om several Che app stor after the untry’s cyberspace thory vowed to ensure a “healthy, ftive and spic onle environment” for the Lunar New Year, which began this week. G Kenworthy beme the first Olympic skier to e out as gay 2015.

When Amerin etyle skier G Kenworthy publicly me out as gay 2015, he helped change the landspe of then-24-year-old was sick of hidg who he really was, and even though he had jt won a silver medal at the 2014 Sochi Wter Olympics, he was more miserable than ever. Outsports lled "the gay sports moment of 2018. "When I was younger all my role mols weren't gay role mols, they were jt sports role mols, " he said.