Pack your bags for a wter vatn the U.S. or abroad. Consir planng a trip to a popular Gay ski week or wter Pri celebratn.
Contents:
- THERE ARE A RERD 11 OPENLY GAY MALE OLYMPIANS R. NONE IS AN AMERIN.
- WHY 'S IMPORTANT THAT SKIER G KENWORTHY ME OUT AS GAY
- 30 FAMO GAY PEOPLE WHO CHANGED THE WORLD
- SKI CHAMPN COM OUT AS GAY: ‘I’M READY TO BE HAPPY’
- THREE OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS E OUT — 2 GAY MEN AND 1 QUEER WOMAN
- 10 GAY SKI WEEKS AND WTER PRI CELEBRATNS
THERE ARE A RERD 11 OPENLY GAY MALE OLYMPIANS R. NONE IS AN AMERIN.
The athlete is now the first male World Cup alpe skier the world to publicly e out as gay, but the journey was no piic. * famous gay skier *
Natnal team, has e out as gay. "I didn't know what gay was terms of how that uld exist the spac I loved and the spac I found myself, which was sports, " he says. "I was not sure if what I was feelg was matchg up wh the way I was perceivg gayns at that time, which was obvly a wrong [pictn].
"I was tryg to balance the feelgs of beg gay but also not tly believg that [I] uld be succsful such a mascule sport.
There were moments where you hear homophobic slurs, and, you know, I was relyg on lots of sponsors to stay alive or equipment for money. And I would hear thgs that would make me very hant to believe that my reer uld ntue while also beg an intifiable gay man.
WHY 'S IMPORTANT THAT SKIER G KENWORTHY ME OUT AS 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 * famous gay skier *
I wasn't able to be openly gay and be the person that I wanted to be. When the Olympics start this weekend R Janeiro, there will be a rerd 41 publicly out gay, lbian and bisexual athlet. Includ this total are a rerd 11 gay male athlet.
Diver Patrick Jefey was openly gay as a diver the 1996 Olympics.
30 FAMO GAY PEOPLE WHO CHANGED THE WORLD
It matters big time a sport where beg gay has long been thought of as unol. * famous gay skier *
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. “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.
"If that's your general rponse when some new public figure announc to the media that he or she is gay or lbian, I unrstand.
Wh this half of Ameri's populatn -- the half who say they wouldn't attend a gay weddg if ved -- g out is still a very big al. In this half of Ameri, 's still perfectly legal for a pany to fire you simply bee they don't want to work alongsi a gay person.
SKI CHAMPN COM OUT AS GAY: ‘I’M READY TO BE HAPPY’
In an terview wh The New York Tim, Hig Roberts, a two-time U.S. natnal champn, be the first ele men’s Alpe skier to publicly e out as gay, hopg to enurage others to be themselv. * famous gay skier *
This is where people rally and cheer for anti-gay unty clerks. Here, bullied gay youngsters -- as young as 11 years old -- are still takg their own liv. This matters a when you grow up gay this part of Ameri, where LGBT people are sentially visible, jt one hero n change your life.
Unlike other highly visible athlet who have recently e out as gay -- like the NFL's Michael Sam or the NBA's Jason Colls -- Kenworthy is at the absolute pnacle of his sport.
That's tough when you're the half of Ameri where "that's gay" is lerally synonymo wh unol.
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. * famous gay skier *
A iend of me, who also grew up gay ral Ameri, spent his teenage years snowboardg Colorado. "Beg gay was never synonymo wh beg popular -- pecially the world of snowboardg.
The word 'gay' was ed all the time as a replacement for 'lame. ' It's not that everythg about our culture was gay-hatg, but there was a lack of anyone who wasn't straight, " he told me. When you grow up gay this part of Ameri, you'll do nearly anythg to pe.
10 GAY SKI WEEKS AND WTER PRI CELEBRATNS
One of them even gathered petns Massachetts to mpaign agast same-sex when you experience actual rejectn, you realize that the anti-gay sentiment Ameri has very real nsequenc. I hoped I might be able to fd a handful of gay folks who loved the mountas.
Today, he's hearg om gay skiers and snowboarrs around the world -- the same kd of people who have bee some of my greatt iends. In the 1960s, gay beme the word utilized by homosexual men to scribe their sexual orientatn. By the end of the 20th century, the word gay was remend by major LGBT groups and style guis to scribe people attracted to members of the same sex, although is more monly ed to refer specifilly to men.