The perceptn that male ice skaters are gay — and the hostily behd — is the sport’s dirty ltle secret, wr Abigail Jon
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
- THERE ARE 8 OUT GAY MALE SKATERS AT THE OLYMPICS. IN 2014, THERE WERE 0.
- 'GAYT SPORT AMERI'
- 16 GAY AND BI OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS
- WHY ARE SO MANY MALE FIGURE SKATERS GAY?
- SEVEN FABULO “OUT” GAY MEN OF FIGURE SKATG
- GAY ABANDON REQUIRED OZEN CLOSET OF MALE ICE SKATG
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. * how many male ice skaters are 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.
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. * how many male ice skaters are gay *
The gay men have bed for 15 Olympic medals, wh several ready to pete pairs figure skatg later this week. In addn to the 37 gay men, Timothy LeDuc is nonbary and will make their Olympic but this week. Three Olympic figure skaters have e out for Pri Month, cludg two gay men and a queer woman.
THERE ARE 8 OUT GAY MALE SKATERS AT THE OLYMPICS. IN 2014, THERE WERE 0.
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. * how many male ice skaters are gay *
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. “[Beg a gay athlete] hasn’t been somethg that I’ve really talked about very much, pecially a public settg, ” Poirier said.
When the Wter Olympics figure skatg petn starts Beijg, there will be a rerd eight out gay men eher sgl, pairs or dance. Outsports wrote Ambrosi and he said, “Y, I intify as gay and I’m out.
'GAYT SPORT AMERI'
* how many male ice skaters are gay *
I asked Chad Conley, a Canadian junr natnals silver medalist who now ach and is gay, what acunts for the crease the number of out male skaters. “I do not thk there is a change the numbers of gay men figure skatg, ” he said.
16 GAY AND BI OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS
Dpe the rerd number of out male skaters, there are still issu, pecially wh ach and judg om the former Soviet Unn, where skatg — and homophobia — has a long tradn.
In October, Alexanr Ven, a former ternatnal judge, said that bee Cizeron is gay, he was “ld” his performanc wh his ice dance partner Gabriella Papadakis. LeDuc has been amazg tellg their historic story to spire others, but the ncern is that there uld be homophobic judg who share the disgtg views of those two Rsians.
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.
WHY ARE SO MANY MALE FIGURE SKATERS GAY?
"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. But he never mentned beg gay until he started playg hockey for the Toronto Gay Hockey Associatn, where he started lerally wearg that part of his inty on his sleeve, somethg he discsed wh The Hockey News 2012.
Shortly before petg at Worlds that same year, the German newspaper Bild-Zeung outed Curry as gay, g a mor sndal Europe, but Curry went on to w the event anyway, makg him the first skater to w the European, Olympic and World champnships a sgle season, acrdg to the BBC. After years of qutns of whether he and Babilonia would ever date, Gardner revealed to Scene magaze 2006 that he was gay. While qutns about the flamboyant skater followed him through his reer -- two Canadian broadsters ught flak and spired a Pri Hoe prott after makg homophobic ments about Weir at the 2010 Olympics -- he did not e out until 2011, when he revealed he was gay his memoir, Wele to My World.
Skaters would later say McCall's homosexualy had been an open secret wh the sport. Stt Haton his book Landg It later creded Pockar and Rob McCall for helpg him get over personal homophobia, but Haton also got cricized for posthumoly outg the men. He me out publicly as gay 2008, and told that many gay skaters pete but don't discs their sexualy publicly.
SEVEN FABULO “OUT” GAY MEN OF FIGURE SKATG
The gay skater prevly hoped to make the team 2006 and 2010 but fell short both years. Hendrickx spoke January spoke to Dutch media outlet ZiZo about what 's like to travel an ternatnal sport when homosexualy is still owned upon much of the world. Spanish LGBT media outlet reported that Raya was the first Spanish Olympian ever to publicly announce he was 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.
GAY ABANDON REQUIRED OZEN CLOSET OF MALE ICE SKATG
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. 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.
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.