As the Sochi Olympic Gam kick off, everyone's talkg about homophobia Rsia, but nobody's talkg about figure skatg's gay problem
Contents:
- THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 39 GAY OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS. HERE’S THE LIST
- THREE OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS E OUT — 2 GAY MEN AND 1 QUEER WOMAN
- SEVEN FABULO “OUT” GAY MEN OF FIGURE SKATG
- 'GAYT SPORT AMERI'
- WHY ARE SO MANY MALE FIGURE SKATERS GAY?
- OP-ED: THE IMPORTANCE OF ADDG FIGURE SKATG TO THE GAY RIGHTS AGENDA
- 16 GAY AND BI OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS
- OPENLY GAY FIGURE SKATERS
- THERE ARE 8 OUT GAY MALE SKATERS AT THE OLYMPICS. IN 2014, THERE WERE 0.
THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 39 GAY OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS. HERE’S THE LIST
Guillme Cizeron is the sixth gay man to w Olympic gold figure skatg. * are all men's figure skaters gay *
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. Five other gay athlet have been named as alternat. In addn to the 37 gay men, Timothy LeDuc is nonbary and will make their Olympic but this week.
THREE OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS E OUT — 2 GAY MEN AND 1 QUEER WOMAN
Three figure skaters, Amerin Jason Brown and Canadians Pl Poirier and Kalyn Weaver, me out as gay and queer for Pri Month. * are all men's figure skaters gay *
Six of the gay men to pete have won Olympic gold medals:. Three Olympic figure skaters have e out for Pri Month, cludg two gay men and a queer woman. The three athlet are: Amerin sgl figure skater Jason Brown, who is gay; Canadian ice dancer Pl Poirier, who is gay, and Canadian ice dancer Kalyn Weaver, who is queer.
SEVEN FABULO “OUT” GAY MEN OF FIGURE SKATG
* are all men's figure skaters gay *
I’m gay, and that’s a story still beg wrten... “[Beg a gay athlete] hasn’t been somethg that I’ve really talked about very much, pecially a public settg, ” Poirier said. Important Note: this blog only featur athlet who voluntarily, personally and publicly disclosed themselv as gay.
NOTE January 2018: Sce this blog is almost two years old and this beg an Olympic year, I have now wrten and published “Seven More Fabulo Out Gay Men of Figure Skatg (and One Bisexual Woman. Please read “Five Key Msag on The Importance of Out Gay Olympic Athlet”.
'GAYT SPORT AMERI'
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. * are all men's figure skaters gay *
Recently, Out Magaze me out wh their list of “100 Hot Out Gay Men” which clud people entertament, sports, polics, bs, etc.
Therefore, sce the World Figure Skatg champnships are beg held next week (March 30 – April 3) Boston, first time the USA 8 years, I am publishg my own list of seven hot out gay men of Figure Skatg.
WHY ARE SO MANY MALE FIGURE SKATERS GAY?
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. * are all men's figure skaters gay *
Print Obama appoted Brian, as an out proud gay man, as one our Amerin legat to the Wter Olympics Sochi, Rsia 2014 to unter some of the close-md anti-gay rhetoric of Rsian Print Vladmir Put (see my blog “Rsia, LGBT Rights and the Psychology of Bullyg”). Rudy is the first openly gay US champn and also later shared about beg HIV+.
In December 2014, Eric Radford of Canada publicly me out as gay an terview wh the LGBT publitn Outsports, bemg the first petive figure skater ever to e out at the height of his reer while still a ntenr for champnship tl. Then March, 2015, Eric and his partner Megan Duhamel won the world pairs tle, makg him the first openly gay figure skater ever to w a gold medal at that petn.
He is an ambassador for the Canadian Olympic Commtee’s #OneTeam program to bat homophobia sports. Adam Rippon out as gay a feature story of US Figure Skatg Magaze a few months ago and how do he follow up the story?
OP-ED: THE IMPORTANCE OF ADDG FIGURE SKATG TO THE GAY RIGHTS AGENDA
That’s credible progrs I mean ne out gay male athlet at the Olympics figure skatg. Pl all the on who are not out. Congratulatns on... * are all men's figure skaters gay *
But when you tune to the Wter Olympics, not one of the figure skatg ntenrs any disciple (sgl, pairs, dance) will be an out gay man.
There will be gay men petg Tur, to be sure -- cludg some who nsir themselv to be out their personal liv -- but not one who will say so on the public rerd. What percentage of male figure skaters is gay?
16 GAY AND BI OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS
And do that mean nothg has changed what Jon Jackson, an openly gay skatg judge, lls "the gayt sport Ameri"?
But I remember when Rudy Galdo started sayg that the judg treated him differently bee he was gay... So I kda ma sure that I stuck to my ual and tried not to do anythg that would've been emed 'gay.
OPENLY GAY FIGURE SKATERS
Tryg not to be emed gay skatg requir behavr rangg om the overt, such as datg women, to tails so subtle that they affect the very way the skater mov his limbs while puttg himself out there to be judged. Jackson nfirmed that the homophobia of judg and feratns affects the athlet.
Unfortunately, he said he do not believe homophobic officials are the mory.
THERE ARE 8 OUT GAY MALE SKATERS AT THE OLYMPICS. IN 2014, THERE WERE 0.
This across every discsn I've had wh a gay skater, that they really feel that they have to prent themselv as a 'passable' mascule skater, " said Jackson.
So gay skaters eher e out long after their petive reers are over, as 1979 world champn Randy Gardner (wh pair partner Tai Babilonia) jt did January, or when they're so far off the radar screen that their feratns aren't monorg them, as happened whRudy Galdo 1995 when he was nsired a has-been. What's changed sce 1996, though, is that many of the Olympic-eligible gay skaters nsir themselv to be fully out their personal liv.