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Three figure skaters, Amerin Jason Brown and Canadians Pl Poirier and Kalyn Weaver, me out as gay and queer for Pri Month.

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THREE OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS E OUT — 2 GAY MEN AND 1 QUEER WOMAN

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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...

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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. * gay ice dancer *

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Goebel ntued: "It was my unrstandg, and I'm nfint was an unrstandg wily held by most of my ntemporari, that beg openly gay would negatively impact the abily of an athlete to reach their full potential. "There was a hidn layer of, 'don't be so gay, '" Rippon said.

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. * gay ice dancer *

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LEWIS GIBSON TALKS FOR THE FIRST TIME ABOUT BEG GAY AND MARRIED, ON EVE OF THE OLYMPICS

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 ice dancer *

LeDuc, who me out to his fay and iends when he was 18, stepped away om petive skatg 2014 part due a homophobic teractn wh a potential partner. "That somebody was rrelatg beg gay wh beg weak.

Tle, makg LeDuc the first openly gay pairs U. Ice dancer Joe Johnson, who me out as gay 2013, and partner Kara Manta, who me out as bisexual 2018, ma history the fall of that year as the first out LGBTQ+ ice dance team.

OLYMPIC MEDAL-WNG SKATER GUILLME CIZERON OUT AS GAY

"I don’t know what got to me, I said to myself, ‘What do I have to lose?’" Guillme Cizeron says of his cisn to publicly e out as gay. * gay ice dancer *

Johnson says his biggt impediment to g out wasn't that people didn't know he was gay, but rather that they already did.

I didn't ever thk, 'I wish I wasn't gay. It was released jt weeks before Galdo would be crowned Ameri's first openly gay natnal champn his hometown of San Jose, California. "As someone who never felt ', ' I don't thk was a big secret that I was gay, " Weir said.

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