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.
Contents:
- GAY HISTORIAN ON WHY AND HOW HE PIL HIS LIST OF LGBTQ OLYMPIANS
- WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF OPENLY GAY OLYMPIANS
GAY HISTORIAN ON WHY AND HOW HE PIL HIS LIST OF LGBTQ OLYMPIANS
* gay olympians outed *
At least 186 publicly out gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, queer and nonbary athlet were Tokyo for the Summer Olympic Gam, more than triple the number who participated at the 2016 R Gam. “Competg at the Olympics as an openly gay athlete is pretty amazg, ” Canadian swimmer Mark Thormeyer told Outsports. Thormeyer was not out when he peted at the 2016 R Olympics and me out publicly as gay a 2020 say for Outsports.
WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS
Two athlet recently g out has highlighted the arth of openly gay players the world of U.S. men's profsnal sports, often dubbed "the last closet" for s lack of LGBTQ reprentatn. * gay olympians outed *
Elissa Alarie (Canada)#Brt Benn (Canada)#Kelly Brazier (New Zealand)Gayle Broughton (New Zealand)#Isadora Cello (Brazil) Lren Doyle (USA)#Mara Fravanti (Brazil)#Megan Jon (Bra)Alev Kelter (USA)Ghislae Landry (Canada)#Kaili Lan (Canada)#Celia Quansah (Bra)Kristen Thomas (USA)Ruby Tui (New Zealand)#Sharni Williams (Atralia)Portia Woodman (New Zealand).
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
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”That’s pecially important at this year’s Gam, as the Internatnal Olympic Commtee (IOC) is hostg 11 natns where beg LGBTQ is crimalized, acrdg to Human Digny Tst: Yemen, the Uned Arab Emirat, Afghanistan, Bnei, Iran, Mrania, Nigeria, Qatar, Sdi Arabia, Somalia and some of those untri, beg LGBTQ is punishable by activists have prsured the IOC to ban such untri om petg the Gam the past, but has yet to e to un — spe siar bans, like 1964, when the IOC barred South Ai om petg due to apartheid, which lasted until medalist Tom Daley of Team Great Bra, left, wh dive partner Matty Lee, said after his recent w Tokyo, “I feel credibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn. (Jean Catuffe/Getty Imag)And this year’s host untry, Japan, has zero out gay athlet (queer advot surmise that’s due to fear of backlash om fans and sponsors, not the New York Tim) and ranks poorly among LGBTQ rights globally, wh zero protectns agast employment and hog discrimatn. In fact, was announced last weekend that the IOC will be updatg s transgenr athlete policy, which will create new opportuni for trans Olympians around the, while queer visibily is at an all-time high, the ramifitns of beg outed on the public stage n often be trimental to those The good, the bad and the uglyHistorilly, disclosg someone’s sexual orientatn or nontradnal genr inty whout their nsent, and wh no regard to ramifitns, has been ed to weaponize and explo the LGBTQ was pecially sensatnalized the 1950s wh the “Lavenr Sre, ” a moral panic durg which the feral ernment began a massive purge of gays and lbians om ernment service.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF OPENLY GAY OLYMPIANS
At s re, the purge was the ernment’s rponse to the growg pri and visibily of gays and lbians society, and ultimately ntributed to McCarthyism.