Three Olympic figure skaters e out: 2 gay men and 1 queer woman - Outsports

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Brian Anrson, a skater who rose to populary the 1990s, remembers regularly hearg gay slurs, which ma him thk at a young age that was dangero to talk about his sexualy.

In 2016 Anrson beme the first high-profile profsnal skater to e out as gay, somethg he never thought he would do. Proceeds om sal of his Cave Homo ze, which explor Anrson’s journey as an openly gay man, are donated to the LGBTQ+ suici preventn nonprof The Trevor is the first issue of the ze Cave Homo, a llaboratn wh Anrson’s iends, signer Le Williams and photographer Christian Trippe.

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