Speed Skater Anastasia Bucsis Is 'Proud to Be Gay'

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Out gay speed-skater Blake Skjellep wed boyiend Sl Carras earlier this month Hawaii.

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CONOR MCDERMOTT-MOSTOWY JT WON 2 US CHAMPNSHIPS. NOW HE’S G OUT AS GAY.

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. * gay speed skater *

Now he’s g out as gay. He’s also gay, and he hop his story and prence speed skatg help other people.

SPEED SKATER MATT RTENHOE WAS A GAY ATHLETE REPRENTG THE USA

Guillme Cizeron is the sixth gay man to w Olympic gold figure skatg. * gay speed skater *

Through all of — the years toilg short track, multiple Junr World Teams and reprentg Team USA — McDermott-Mostowy has never hidn beg gay om his fellow speed skaters. Somewhat unfortable wh startg a nversatn wh people about him beg gay — where do you start? Now he’s sharg his story as an ele world-class athlete — who jt happens to be gay — for the first time.

THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 39 GAY OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS. HERE’S THE LIST

Bucsis, a long-track speed skater, jos a growg group of gay athlet lookg for a spot at this year's Olympics Rsia. * gay speed skater *

Btg the stereotyp of a gay athlete. While acceptance has abound his fay and speed skatg work, the ra of sports and the misnceptns of gay athlet have part held him back om beg more fully “out” the open.

He’s never, for example, posted somethg on Instagram that would tell a fellow athlete that he’s gay. Instead, subtle nods — some face sparkl and taggg men’s swimwear signer Parke and Ronen, popular wh gay men — did the talkg.

The ia of gay men not beg athletic or good at sports has sat wh McDermott-Mostowy for years and kept him om beg more — for lack of a better term — proactively out. “I don’t want to talk about beg gay, bee there’s a stereotype that gay guys aren’t athletic, and I don’t want that to be held agast me or ed to jtify a bad rult. Prevly we saw Amerin Keh Carney e out on Outsports after a top-10 fish at the US Champnships; Amerin Matt Rtenhoe lived openly after he retired and talked to Outsports earlier this year about beg gay.

SPEED SKATER ANASTASIA BUCSIS IS 'PROUD TO BE GAY'

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“I n’t thk of anythg that’s ever been directed at me specifilly, ” he said of possible negative reactns to him beg gay.

“I’ve heard of some skaters sayg homophobic stuff, not about me, but jt general.

GAY SPEED-SKATER BLAKE SKJELLEP MARRI BOYIEND SL CARRAS: PHOTOS

If anyone had ever wonred if I’m gay, now they’ll know.

A total of 186 publicly out gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, queer and nonbary athlet participated the Tokyo Gam, acrdg to Not only was that the most at any Olympics ever, but was also more than triple the number of LGBTQ athlet at the 2016 R Gam. Andrew Blaser will bee the first openly gay man to pete skeleton at the Olympics.

Brown me out as gay durg Pri Month, June, of last year. The 27-year-old Cizeron, who is gay, and 26-year-old Papadakis have formed a domant partnership, pturg four World Champnship tl, five European Champnship tl and seven natnal tl. LeDuc beme the first openly gay athlete to w a U.

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