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G Kenworthy, one of the bt ekiers the world and the 2014 Olympic sloptyle silver medalist, revealed to ESPN The Magaze that he is gay.

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OLYMPIC SKIER G KENWORTHY ON G OUT AS GAY, TURNG PRO, AND HOW HE BALANC SPORTS, ACTG, AND ADVOCY

When G Kenworthy peted at the Sochi Olympics 2014 he was aaid that someone would fd out that he is gay -- fast-forward eight years and he is out * gus skiing gay *

When G Kenworthy peted at the Sochi Olympics 2014 he was aaid that someone would fd out that he is gay -- fast-forward eight years and he is out and proud, as are dozens of other athlet at the Beijg Brish-Amerin etyle skier, who won silver for the Uned Stat Sochi the sloptyle petn, famoly kissed his boyiend Matt Wilkas live on televisn before his qualifyg n four years later at the Olympics Pyeongchang.

OLYMPIAN G KENWORTHY ON HIS IMPACT AS THE 'GAY SKIER' — AND WHAT HAPPENED TO THOSE SOCHI DOGS

G Kenworthy beme the first Olympic skier to e out as gay 2015. Ever sce, his skig has gotten better, and he's gotten more succsful. * gus skiing gay *

“Hontly, means the world to me to get to pete here as an out proud gay man and to know that there are other out LGBTQ athlet that are here petg, ” he said. Kenworthy never thought he would see the day when he would be on the world stage as an out gay man and hop will reach the stage where stori such as his are no longer newsworthy.

U.S. OLYMPIC SKIER G KENWORTHY OUT AS GAY

The Olympic skier who helped fd hom for five stray dogs om Sochi now out as gay ESPN The Magaze to be ee and help others fd their way through their journeys. * gus skiing gay *

G Kenworthy beme the first Olympic skier to e out as gay 2015. When Amerin etyle skier G Kenworthy publicly me out as gay 2015, he helped change the landspe of then-24-year-old was sick of hidg who he really was, and even though he had jt won a silver medal at the 2014 Sochi Wter Olympics, he was more miserable than ever.

G KENWORTHY, WORLD CHAMPN SKIER, COM OUT AS GAY

World champn skier G Kenworthy, who took home a silver medal om the 2014 Sochi Olympic Gam, has e out as gay. * gus skiing gay *

Outsports lled "the gay sports moment of 2018. "When I was younger all my role mols weren't gay role mols, they were jt sports role mols, " he said. Growg up Telluri, a ty ski town, Kenworthy didn't have too many role mols om the gay muny.

He looked up to celebri like Ricky Mart, Ellen Page, and Troye Sivan for g out, but he only knew one gay person his immediate circle.

"I actually have an uncle who's gay, " Kenworthy said, "and my fay ador my uncle Sam, but he and I many ways uldn't be more different.

HOW USA OLYMPIC SKIER G KENWORTHY REFED 'GAY'

He's the Amerin skier who rcued a bunch of stray puppi om Sochi Rsia (where he also won an Olympic silver medal) and brought them to Ameri for a better life, and now he's the out and proud "gay" skier. * gus skiing gay *

I thk that was part of the thg that ma hard for me when I was g to terms wh the fact that I was gay. "I realized that 'gay' is jt part of someone, don't fe anythg else about them, " he said. He is now about to pete for Great Bra, the untry of his birth, his third and fal Olympics Beijg and Kenworthy will ski as a gay man, an LGBTQ+ activist and an most important facet of his transn is that, as Kenworthy says: “I’m jt much happier now than I was back then when I wasn’t livg my life thentilly.

He had not e out then but was he distrsed by homophobia Rsia? Photograph: Fei Maohua/RexKenworthy looks surprised when I ask who was the first person he me out to outsi the gay muny?

“Oh, the gay muny were the last people I me out to. I didn’t have a sgle gay iend.

FIVE-TIME EKI CHAMP, SOCHI SILVER MEDALIST G KENWORTHY OUT AS GAY

G Kenworthy, one of the bt ekiers the world and the 2014 Olympic sloptyle silver medalist, revealed to ESPN The Magaze that he is gay. * gus skiing gay *

“I don’t thk people were tryg to be malic but if a ski urse was bad they’d say: ‘This urse is so gay. ‘This is gay, that’s gay, don’t be a faggot. I was gay and I wanted to enjoy that part of myself but I felt I uldn’t do that bee of my sport.

I was not skig well and so I thought: ‘It’s bee I’m gay and so I want to qu.

He actually asked me at the X Gam 2015: ‘Are you gay? Kenworthy was the first gay athlete to kiss his partner on work televisn.

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Kenworthy medaled Sochi and then me out as gay. He plans to be vol South Korea, which has a checkered rerd on LGBT rights. * gus skiing gay *

And untri where homosexualy is punishable by ath or jail, you shouldn’t be allowed to pete the Olympics at all. “Adam Rippon and I were the first two openly gay men to go to the [2018] Wter Olympics for Team USA, which is sane.

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* gus skiing gay *

It was the first time that there were trans and non-bary and gay and lbian athlet.

FIVE-TIME EKI CHAMP, SOCHI SILVER MEDALIST G KENWORTHY OUT AS GAY

Gay Ski Week Telluri, Colo., started 2002 and now brgs one of the largt ski groups to the area each year. * gus skiing gay *

And so, when I ask him to sum up his mood as a proudly gay athlete about to enter his fal Wter Olympics for a new untry, Kenworthy ps.

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G Kenworthy, one of the bt ekiers the world and the 2014 Olympic sloptyle silver medalist, revealed to ESPN The Magaze that he is gay. * gus skiing gay *

The followg year, Kenworthy announced he was gay on the ver of ESPN the Magaze, the first Amerin actn sports petor to do so. In late January, Kenworthy qualified for Team USA, makg him one of two openly gay men to pete for Ameri at the Wter Olympics alongsi figure skater Adam Rippon, who ma the cut earlier that month. “Bee some regards ’s your own bs, ’s not really anybody else’s, but I thk that the reason that I wanted to do a big way and make a big splash was bee ’s so unexpected our sport and actn sports, and I thk that the only way to really battle homophobia and battle stereotyp is jt by havg visibily and beg public and open and hont and thentic.

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“I don’t thk I uld have e out as a gay athlete 30 years ago and expected to be succsful my sport, ” he told TIME December.

“I don’t thk that one thg f me, but I know that by g out the way that I did sort of almost pneerg actn sports — to take that stand — that ’s always gog to be a label that is stuck wh me and I know that I’ll always be the ‘gay skier, ’ and actually don’t bother me, ” he said.

FIVE-TIME EKI CHAMP, SOCHI SILVER MEDALIST G KENWORTHY OUT AS GAY

(Follow @alyroe on Twter) story is part of ESPN's ongog seri explorg what means to be an openly gay athlete the post-acceptance world.

And so, as we s down together Los Angel September, he begs the only way he knows how: "I gus I should start by sayg, 'I'm gay. If they knew he was gay, would the kids idolize him as much? Would his iends stop g "gay" as a scriptor for all thgs that suck?

FIVE-TIME EKI CHAMP, SOCHI SILVER MEDALIST G KENWORTHY OUT AS GAY

Kenworthy knew he was gay as early as 5 years old and felt different om other boys. "Unls you're gay, beg gay has never been looked at as beg ol.

Gay marriage is legal now, attus are changg. Take, for stance, the former sponsor who ma a c anti-gay remark about why Kenworthy was once late to a petn. Take his physil therapist, who once told Kenworthy that he uldn't even image talkg to a gay guy all night.

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G Kenworthy, World Champn Skier, Com Out as Gay .

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