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Contents:
- THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 39 GAY OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS. HERE’S THE LIST
- SEVEN FABULO “OUT” GAY MEN OF FIGURE SKATG
- THREE OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS E OUT — 2 GAY MEN AND 1 QUEER WOMAN
- 16 GAY AND BI OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS
- THERE ARE 8 OUT GAY MALE SKATERS AT THE OLYMPICS. IN 2014, THERE WERE 0.
- TOP RSIAN TENNIS PLAYER DARIA KASATKA OUT AS GAY
- ICE SKATERS PLAN TO STAND AGAST RSIA'S GAY LAW AT OLYMPICS
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. * gay russian figure skater *
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.
SEVEN FABULO “OUT” GAY MEN OF FIGURE SKATG
Three figure skaters, Amerin Jason Brown and Canadians Pl Poirier and Kalyn Weaver, me out as gay and queer for Pri Month. * gay russian figure skater *
In addn to the 37 gay men, Timothy LeDuc is nonbary and will make their Olympic but this week.
Six of the gay men to pete have won Olympic gold medals:.
THREE OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS E OUT — 2 GAY MEN AND 1 QUEER WOMAN
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. * gay russian figure skater *
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”. 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.
16 GAY AND BI OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS
* gay russian figure skater *
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.
THERE ARE 8 OUT GAY MALE SKATERS AT THE OLYMPICS. IN 2014, THERE WERE 0.
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?
TOP RSIAN TENNIS PLAYER DARIA KASATKA OUT AS GAY
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. 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. When Adam Rippon pet at the Olympics this year, will be the first time an openly gay figure skater reprents the Uned Stat an dividual event. But figure skatg has always provid an athletic arena for gay men, even if most historilly waed to e out publicly after their Olympic reer me to a close.
ICE SKATERS PLAN TO STAND AGAST RSIA'S GAY LAW AT OLYMPICS
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.
"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 Curry, Uned Kgdom, Men's SglThe Brish skater, famo for brgg ballet and dance mov to men's sgl, won the gold at the 1976 gam Innsbck, where he also acted as flag bearer for his natn. 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.