Figure skaters Adam Rippon and Eric Radford each ma history as openly gay men who won medals at the 2018 Wter Olympics, the latt ton for Team LGBTQ.
Contents:
- THE ARE THE 6 OPENLY GAY ATHLET PETG AT THE SOCHI OLYMPICS
- THE VERY SHORT LIST: WHO IS GAY THE OLYMPICS?
- GAY ATHLET ARE MAKG HISTORY AT THE 2018 WTER OLYMPICS
- OBAMA CLUS OPENLY GAY ATHLET 2014 OLYMPIC LEGATN
- THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 39 GAY OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS. HERE’S THE LIST
- GAY ATHLET COULD BE PROSECUTED AT 2014 WTER OLYMPICS, RSIAN LAWMAKER SUGGTS
- GAY OLYMPIC HISTORIAN: KNOWN LGBTQ ATHLET WERE PETG EARLY 20TH CENTURY
- HOW SOCHI BEME THE GAY OLYMPICS
- BILLIE JEAN KG EMBRAC HER ROLE AS OPENLY GAY LEGATE TO 2014 SOCHI OLYMPICS
THE ARE THE 6 OPENLY GAY ATHLET PETG AT THE SOCHI OLYMPICS
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On Sunday the world gaed another openly gay Olympic athlete: Ari-Pekka Likonen of Fland. His announcement jt days before the 2014 Wter Olympic Gam start Sochi, Rsia, where an anti-gay law has been effect sce last year. ” This issue is both public and personal for the six openly gay Olympians who will be petg at Sochi.
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THE VERY SHORT LIST: WHO IS GAY THE OLYMPICS?
Advocy groups had been urgg Print Obama to send gay athlet to Sochi to draw attentn to Rsia's treatment of gays and lbians * gay olympic athletes 2014 *
The law’s vaguens, activists note, uld prohib almost any pro-gay exprsn, such as public statements, ralli, rabow flags, rabow ntg dolls, or same-sex hand-holdg.
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GAY ATHLET ARE MAKG HISTORY AT THE 2018 WTER OLYMPICS
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Rsian activists note that the measur strengthen homophobia a untry where 74 percent of people already believe that homosexualy is new laws, says Human Rights Watch, have also fueled vic attacks agast LGBT dividuals, cludg beatgs, kidnappgs, torture and murr. Or watch this documentary, "Hunted, " by vtigative journalist Liz here’s the rabow lg: Sochi has also provid a highly visible fom for ternatnal prott and prsure rponse to Rsia’s anti-gay laws. For example, some 50 Olympic athlet — pl 406, 000 other people around the globe — have petned the Rsian ernment to "elimate all anti-gay laws and protect all cizens om vlence and discrimatn Rsia.
OBAMA CLUS OPENLY GAY ATHLET 2014 OLYMPIC LEGATN
" Rsian gay rights activists rally Mosw, on March 10, 2012.
THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 39 GAY OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS. HERE’S THE LIST
(Kirill Kudryavtsev/Getty Imag)While Internatnal Olympics Commtee member Dick Pound (no, really) has downplayed the harshns of the untry's “antigay stuff, ” European Unn Commissner Viviane Redg nfirmed that she'll boytt the Gam bee of Rsia's treatment of mori.
Instead, he'll be sendg the largt and most openly gay legatn Olympics rponse to the ternatnal outcry, Rsian Print Vladimir Put awkwardly backpedaled to a pedophilia parison.
” Sochi’s mayor then claimed there are no gay people Sochi, leadg to some entertag fact-checkg by the Olympics are a time to celebrate world-class feats of athleticism, flamboyant displays of natnalism and maybe some spanx-clad buns. Even if the mayor of Sochi do not believe gay people, they'll be at the Wter are the five other openly gay athlet who will be petg at Sochi.
GAY ATHLET COULD BE PROSECUTED AT 2014 WTER OLYMPICS, RSIAN LAWMAKER SUGGTS
(Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Imag)Bucsis me out publicly at Calgary’s Gay Pri Para September 2013, two years after tellg her fay and iends. She told the Globe and Mail she was “so proud to be gay” and wanted to speak out agast Rsia’s anti-gay laws: “I uld never promote that msage of ncealg who you are wh all of this gog on Rsia. The 20-year-old snowboarr and Olympic newbie said she wanted to show Put how succsful gay and lbian athlet uld be.
But as blogger Pat Griff pots out, not all openly gay athlet are terted public LGBT advocy. Last November, van Kerkhof said: "It is sad to hear about somebody beaten up bee he is gay.
GAY OLYMPIC HISTORIAN: KNOWN LGBTQ ATHLET WERE PETG EARLY 20TH CENTURY
8, 2014, Hzlsperger assembled a group of reporters om German weekly Die Ze and told them he is gay a lengthy terview. The Olympic Gam Sochi are g up and I thk we need cril voic agast the mpaigns of several ernments agast homosexuals.
HOW SOCHI BEME THE GAY OLYMPICS
But Matos says he is tired of avoidg gay parti, hidg boyiends and pretendg to be straight.
BILLIE JEAN KG EMBRAC HER ROLE AS OPENLY GAY LEGATE TO 2014 SOCHI OLYMPICS
” The 50-year-old figure skatg legend, who won gold at the 1988 Wter Olympics, jos two other openly gay athlet on the legatn — tennis champn Billie Jean Kg (39 Grand Slam tl) and Olympic ice hockey player Cal Cahow (bronze medal the 2006 Toro Gam).