There have been 39 gay Olympic figure skaters. Here’s the list - Outsports

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• THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 39 GAY OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS. HERE’S THE LIST
• INTERNATNAL GAY FIGURE SKATG UNN
• 16 GAY AND BI OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS
• PALM SPRGS' J. STT DRISLL PLANS GAY GAM BUT
• GAY GAM IV - NEW YORK, 1994
• GAY GAM GET FIGURE SKATG BREAKTHROUGH FOR PARIS 2018
• GAY ABANDON REQUIRED OZEN CLOSET OF MALE ICE SKATG
• GAY GAM X RESULTS
• THREE OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS E OUT — 2 GAY MEN AND 1 QUEER WOMAN
• GAY GAMES; COMPETN AND CAMARARIE FOR GAY ATHLET

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

There have been at least 39 gay men to pete figure skatg at the Wter Olympic Gam over the years, wh eight publicly out men petg 2022.

06/12/2023: Dat for Gay Gam Figure Skatg Competn and show are official now (practise: nov 6th and 7th; petn: nov 8th and 9th; show: nov 10th show)03/05/2023: Rul for Figure Skatg Guadalajara are onle. 02/14/2022:Two hosts at the Gay Gam 2023: The host Gay Gam Hong Kong and the FGG announce Guadalajara as -host of 11th Gay Gam 2023.

INTERNATNAL GAY FIGURE SKATG UNN

11/12/2021: Valeni official host of GAY GAMES XII: Valencia signs official license Agreement: Valencia is now the Official Host of Gay Gam imprsns on same sex upl. IGFSU and the Gay GamIGFSU was found 1991 by Arthur Luiz and Lra Moore, as part of a succsful bid to get figure skatg to the Gay Gam New 1999, we beme a member anizatn of the Feratn of Gay Gam.

16 GAY AND BI OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS

IGFSU partnered wh Gay Gam hosts 2002 Sydney, Atralia, 2006 Chigo, USA, 2010 Koeln, Germany, 2014 Cleveland+Akron, USA and 2018 Paris, France nng events unlike any other figure skatg 2018 Gay Gam Paris clud an ISU petn.

This was groundbreakg for both ISU and the Gay Gam, but did mean that ISU l stumg and partnerg had to be followed that portn of the the Gay Gam Hong Kong a ISI petn is planned that will clu multiple skatg opportuni for each participant and wel all skaters, sgl, pairs and ice dance, as well as will be tegori for begners through ternatnal ele skaters. If you are trag a program for ISU, you will be able to skate remas active wh the FGG today and is regnized as the official erng body of figure skatg for the Gay are exced to see ele figure skaters g strive to support LGBTQ+ skaters, ach, judg.

PALM SPRGS' J. STT DRISLL PLANS GAY GAM BUT

When Adam Rippon pet at the Olympics this year, will be the first time an openly gay figure skater reprents the Uned Stat an dividual event. But figure skatg has always provid an athletic arena for gay men, even if most historilly waed to e out publicly after their Olympic reer me to a close. But he kept his sexualy a private matter until 2014, when the Uned Stat sent a legatn to Rsia ma up of high-profile gay athlet.

"I never felt like I need to before, so whether people figured out if I was gay or not, I had to make official, why I had to e out publicly. But he never mentned beg gay until he started playg hockey for the Toronto Gay Hockey Associatn, where he started lerally wearg that part of his inty on his sleeve, somethg he discsed wh The Hockey News Curry, Uned Kgdom, Men's SglThe Brish skater, famo for brgg ballet and dance mov to men's sgl, won the gold at the 1976 gam Innsbck, where he also acted as flag bearer for his natn.

Shortly before petg at Worlds that same year, the German newspaper Bild-Zeung outed Curry as gay, g a mor sndal Europe, but Curry went on to w the event anyway, makg him the first skater to w the European, Olympic and World champnships a sgle season, acrdg to the BBC.

GAY GAM IV - NEW YORK, 1994

While qutns about the flamboyant skater followed him through his reer -- two Canadian broadsters ught flak and spired a Pri Hoe prott after makg homophobic ments about Weir at the 2010 Olympics -- he did not e out until 2011, when he revealed he was gay his memoir, Wele to My World. Stt Haton his book Landg It later creded Pockar and Rob McCall for helpg him get over personal homophobia, but Haton also got cricized for posthumoly outg the O'Meara, USA, Ice DancgThe ice dancer reprented the Uned Stat at the 2006 gam Toro alongsi skatg partner Jamie Silverste. 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.

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. Radford and partner Meagan Duhamel skated to a first-place fish the team event, makg Radford the first openly gay man to w gold at a Wter Olympics. Peltzer ran at the 1928 Amsterdam and 1932 Los Angel Olympics before he was arrted and imprisoned by the Nazis for his homosexualy 1935.

GAY GAM GET FIGURE SKATG BREAKTHROUGH FOR PARIS 2018

It wasn’t until the 2018 Gam when Team USA featured s first openly gay Wter Olympians, as figure skater Adam Rippon, ekier G Kenworthy and speed skater Brtany Bowe peted PyeongChang. Rippon earned bronze the 2018 team figure skatg petn to make him the Uned Stat’ first openly gay medalist at the Wter Gam. You n fd untls pop culture referenc about skatg where 's a punch le to a joke -- TV shows like Friends ("I'm an ice dancer -- all my iends are gay!

That uldn't be farther om the prence of queer skaters the sport n be traced as far back as the 1950s, wasn't until 2018 that Adam Rippon and Eric Radford beme the first out gay figure skaters to pete at the Olympics. We had to sort of play by those l bee beg gay on the Olympic stage and the world stage, an ele athlete, you have to be reful bee the reputatn of endorsements was on the table.

So we had to be very mdful of that, and I knew that, so I had to sort of lie and not be tthful about all [my skatg partner Tai and I] turned pro 1980, and did Ice Capas and all that, was a ltle better bee people on the show were gay.

GAY ABANDON REQUIRED OZEN CLOSET OF MALE ICE SKATG

I thk that the outsi assumptn is that everybody skatg is gay, and that bee of that would jt be a very safe place for queer people. As soon as I entered a more ser rk when I was around 10, and really started pursug more serly, I was super, super nsc of the fact that they were nng a b through every kid through the lens of "Is this kid gay? " I mean, I was asked if I was gay at a very, very young age and told that I was gay and told that I was very, very, very gay-- jt like the most.

[Growg up, ] my only unrstandg of gay people or of queer people was when our prit, our preacher, was speakg about them the church. Natnal champn and a two-time world middle school and certaly high school, was like, "Oh, you [do] figure skatg, you mt be gay, " and people askg me, "Oh, well, if you n skate that well, why don't you play hockey? Figure Skatg Diversy, Equy, and Incln Task kd of knew of the officials that were gay, maybe some of the skaters that were gay, but they didn't really talk about .

I was almost dyg to learn this history of gays skatg that I didn't even know about bee was somethg that nobody ever talked about. I would even say, to this day, I'm still learng more and more about wonrful ntributors to this sport of figure skatg the past that we maybe didn't hear so much about jt bee they were gay.

GAY GAM X RESULTS

As a speaker — as well as skatg stctor and Gay Gam ntenr — he's driven to open up about his childhood challeng so that LGBT youth know they too n overe bullyg and other 's what his song, "Your Love Matters, " is about. Renamed the Gay Gam, the sportg and cultural event tak place every four years a different cy, attractg petors om all over the world to participate swimmg, cyclg, basketball, divg, figure skatg and myriad other sports.

He ma history as one of the first openly gay athlet figure skatg and ed his platform to normalize LGBTQ+ visibily this highly petive sport. IGFSU/ISIFigure skatg will be n by the Internatnal Gay Figure Skatg Unn (a member anizatn of the Feratn of Gay Gam) g the l and format of.

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

The objectiv of the ISI align wh those of the Feratn of Gay Gam regardg Participatn, Incln and Personal Bt and allowg for partnerg WITHOUT regard to genr. Athlet n participate the different further rmatn or qutns ncerng the sportg event, please email the sport lear: LAURA MOORE at: The rults will soon be announced$2, 000 MXN Non-Mexins (mexin pos)$2, 000 MXN Mexins wh CURP (mexin pos)*The fe are per person and will be acrdg to the exchange rate of the mexin pos at the time of registratn (the fe will vary pendg on each untry’s nversn)The fee for the sport is separate om the general registratn petn is anised by Internatnal Gay Figure Skatg Unn, CODE Jalis and FMDD.

The Gay Gam have long stggled wh a actured relatnship wh the Internatnal Skatg Unn that has threatened to punish members if they pete the Gay Gam. Central to the figure skatg petns at the Gay Gam are var events that the Internatnal Skatg Unn won’t sanctn, most notably the same-sex pairs.

The ISU mandat that pairs be of oppose sex for all sanctned petns, but the Gay Gam and other LGBT figure-skatg petns have unrstandably held same-sex pairs as tegral to their events. The rift began 1998 when the ISU notified s members that actn would be taken agast them if they peted the Gay Gam that year, held Amsterdam, bee of the non-sanctned events. As Gay Gam 10 anizers Paris began talkg wh the ISU, some skaters feared that the event would remove same-sex pairs skatg to bridge the gap.

GAY GAMES; COMPETN AND CAMARARIE FOR GAY ATHLET

"We uldn't stand by and allow the Gay Gam to have a figure skatg petn that don't allow same-sex pairs skatg, ” said longtime skater Lra Moore, who is an honorary lifetime member of the Feratn of Gay Gam.