16 Gay and Bi Olympic Figure Skaters

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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.

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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. * gay men's ice skating *

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.

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.

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 men's ice skating *

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.

THERE ARE 8 OUT GAY MALE SKATERS AT THE OLYMPICS. IN 2014, THERE WERE 0.

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Six of the gay men to pete have won Olympic gold medals:. 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.

SEVEN FABULO “OUT” GAY MEN OF FIGURE SKATG

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.

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. Here are the out gay male skaters Beijg:. Important Note: this blog only featur athlet who voluntarily, personally and publicly disclosed themselv as gay.

16 GAY AND BI OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS

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.

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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. 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+.

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There have been 39 gay Olympic figure skaters. Here’s the list - Outsports .

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