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.
Contents:
- 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.
- LEWIS GIBSON TALKS FOR THE FIRST TIME ABOUT BEG GAY AND MARRIED, ON EVE OF THE OLYMPICS
- OLYMPIC MEDAL-WNG SKATER GUILLME CIZERON OUT AS GAY
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 ice dancer *
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.
16 GAY AND BI OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS
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 *
I knew other skaters that were gay and even officials and people the prs. 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.
* gay ice dancer *
Oftentim, this feedback was om a gay official or judge. In a way, I know that they were tryg to protect me, but was almost them puttg out their own issu wh homophobia that they faced so that I wouldn't have to face them myself. 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.
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 *
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.
Johnson says his biggt impediment to g out wasn't that people didn't know he was gay, but rather that they already did.
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 *
I didn't ever thk, 'I wish I wasn't gay.