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

Contents:

• 'I FEEL VERY EMPOWERED': DIVER TOM DALEY DISCS BEG OPENLY GAY AFTER WNG GOLD
• THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 39 GAY OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS. HERE’S THE LIST
• THIS IS HOW ALL OF THE OUT GAY, LBIAN AND BI OLYMPIANS DID THIS WEEKEND
• TEAM LGBT'S R OLYMPIC MEDAL UNT BEAT EVERY UNTRY THAT CRIMALIZ GAY SEX
• CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: OUT GAY DIVER MATTHEW MCHAM WS OLYMPIC GOLD
• TOM DALEY ‘CREDIBLY PROUD TO SAY I AM GAY AND AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN’
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF OPENLY GAY OLYMPIANS
• ADAM RIPPON MA HISTORY AS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY AMERIN MAN TO W AT THE WTER OLYMPICS
• KELLY BRAZIER, GAYLE BROUGHTON, RUBY TUI, AND PORTIA WOODMAN
• A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

'I FEEL VERY EMPOWERED': DIVER TOM DALEY DISCS BEG OPENLY GAY AFTER WNG GOLD

Women’s basketball team members Sue Bird, Chelsea Gray, Brtney Grer, Breanna Stewart and Diana Trasi; Amerin 3-on-3 basketball player Stefanie Dolson; Canadian women’s soccer team members Qun, Kaisha Buchanan, Er McLeod, Kailen Sheridan and Stephanie Labbe; French handball players Amande Leynd and Alexandra Lacrabère; New Zealand gby players Gayle Broughton, Ruby Tui, Kelly Brazier and Portia Woodman; and, of urse, Brish diver Tom Daley, who fally took home the gold for synchronized divg at his fourth Gam.

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

“I feel credibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn, ” Daley, 27, told reporters after he and divg partner Matty Lee sred a wng 471.

”State-sanctned homophobia has risen Poland recent years, wh dozens of ci passg ordanc clarg themselv “LGBT-ee zon.

” Print Andrzej Duda won a send five-year term last year after he lled LGBTQ iology “more stctive” than munism and signed a “Fay Charter” pledge to ban same-sex marriage, gay adoptn rights and teachg about LGBTQ issu schools.

THIS IS HOW ALL OF THE OUT GAY, LBIAN AND BI OLYMPIANS DID THIS WEEKEND

“It was enough that I showed up a T-shirt wh the words ‘Sport agast homophobia’ and I got a few msag om young girls practicg rowg. Tom Daley and his divg partner, Matty Lee, brought home a gold medal for Team Great Bra Monday on the synchronized 10-meter platform dive, and the victory was pecially meangful for Daley his send Olympics as an openly gay me out a YouTube vio 2013 shortly after he began datg his now-hband, Dt Lance Black.

"I feel credibly proud to say that I’m a gay man and also an Olympic champn, " Daley said via the Olympic News Service after wng gold. 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. LGBT historian Tony Scupham-Bilton has intified the men over the years, cludg a pastakg procs of intifyg who is gay.

TEAM LGBT'S R OLYMPIC MEDAL UNT BEAT EVERY UNTRY THAT CRIMALIZ GAY SEX

The gay men have bed for 15 Olympic medals, wh several ready to pete pairs figure skatg later this week. Five other gay athlet have been named as alternat. In addn to the 37 gay men, Timothy LeDuc is nonbary and will make their Olympic but this week.

Six of the gay men to pete have won Olympic gold medals:. Out LGBTQ athlet at the Tokyo Summer Olympics earned more medals than any untry that crimaliz homosexualy.

CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: OUT GAY DIVER MATTHEW MCHAM WS OLYMPIC GOLD

Iran, which kills people for beg gay, fished wh jt seven medals. The gays absolutely cshed Iran the medal unt. Still, Team LGBTQ btg every untry that mak homosexualy illegal has to brg a good feelg.

Wh their team event figure skatg medals — Radford wh gold and Rippon wh bronze — they are the first two publicly out gay men to ever w a Wter Olympic medal. He is the first publicly out gay man to w a gold medal the Wter Olympics. Wh Radford, he’s the first publicly out gay man to w a medal the Wter Olympics.

TOM DALEY ‘CREDIBLY PROUD TO SAY I AM GAY AND AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN’

The publicly out gay, lbian and bisexual Olympic athlet R outperformed expectatns, wh 25 of the 53 publicly out athlet wng medals. Most untri that crimalize gay sex fared very poorly the Olympics.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF OPENLY GAY OLYMPIANS

Var notorly anti-gay natns won zero medals, cludg Libya, Sudan and Uganda. The LGBT athlet om Great Bra alone acunted for four medals, beatg all of the untri that crimalize gay sex, and others like Nigeria (one medal) and Tunisia (three medals).

Today, we revis Augt 23, 2008, the day Beijg, Cha, when an out gay man won a gold medal at the Olympic Summer Gam. What Mcham’s w means to gays everywhere. An openly gay male athlete won an Olympic gold medal.

By wng the gold medal the men’s 10-meter platform divg, Mcham stck a goln blow for gay people everywhere who’ve been told they’re flawed or not good enough, pecially the athletic arena. For all the gay men who have been lled weak, sissi, pansi, too emotnal, not tough enough to pete sports, that fal dive was for you.

ADAM RIPPON MA HISTORY AS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY AMERIN MAN TO W AT THE WTER OLYMPICS

Wh his glor fal round of six div, the 20-year-old Atralian beme the most signifint openly gay male athlete ever (out lbians such as Marta Navratilova and Ameile Mrmo have won their fair share of tl).

Watchg the divg all week, I would bet my life savgs that Mcham was not the only gay man on the sprgboard or platform.

And Greg Louganis, also gay and wner of multiple gold medals, is nsired the greatt diver ever.

KELLY BRAZIER, GAYLE BROUGHTON, RUBY TUI, AND PORTIA WOODMAN

Never before have gay sports fan been able to watch a man they know is gay w such a major sportg event; no need for gaydar wh Matthew. His story ronat bee ’s universal for lns of people, pecially for many who are gay: Stgglg wh prsn, his sexualy and posssg a rebell streak and a taste for partyg for a kid who was not sure he f (he might have been the only diver Beijg to have a pierced tongue).

A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

He has unrstandably said that he do not want to be known as the “gay diver. ” “Beg gay and divg are pletely separate parts of my life, ” he told journalists after wng the gold. Of urse, that is the attu he should take, but he has bee a role mol for gays everywhere, whether active sports or not, simply by beg the way he is.

Mcham’s succs will not e a flood of gay athlet to sudnly e out. Mcham, though, n act as a symbol that one n be openly gay and yet still sle the heights of their sport. Matthew Mcham, out and proud gay man.