Celebrating 2022's gay Olympians!

[el henry]

Celebrating the rainbow with nine publicly out gay Olympians:

Filippo Ambrosini, Italy
Kévin Aymoz, France
Jason Brown, USA
Guillaume Cizéron, France
Lewis Gibson, Great Britain
Eric Radford, Canada
Paul Poirier, Canada
Simon Proulx-Sénécal, Armenia

and a special shout out to the first non-binary Winter Olympian, Timothy LeDuc, USA

This is from my own knowledge, so if there are more please let me know. I understand not every country has named its Olympic team, but I don't know of any publicly out skaters not yet named eligible for the Olympics; again if I am missing something, please let me know.

 

[el henry]

USFS Statement in support of Timothy LeDuc:

 

[Lzbee]

I don't care if it's infantile black and white thinking, I will not tolerate someone actively trying to hurt a historically marginalised group. They may not have inflicted physical pain right this moment but so many have been physically hurt by people who hold these attitudes in the past.

Thank you to those who are fighting the good fight in this thread, it's not easy and it's tiring but someone needs to do it.

I just want to bring the thread back to celebrating the bravery of these people who have put themselves out there, knowing that they may be attacked for it, whether that's verbally or physically:

Kévin Aymoz, France
Jason Brown, USA
Guillaume Cizéron, France
Eric Radford, Canada
Paul Poirier, Canada
Timothy LeDuc, USA

 

[kolyadafan2002]

Congrats - especially happy to see skaters who I've been long-time fans of and have been emotionally invested in (Kevin, Jason, Guillaume) have the support to come out.
Congrats to all the others as well. (including those on and off the Olympic teams - including Amber Glenn

 

[Matthew]

I'm very happy about these athletes being able to be openly gay, today. A long way has gone since my childhood days where e.g. some political figures had to resign when it "came out" that they were gay. So much unnecessary harm has been done to gay people during my earlier lifetime, and I'm so relieved that nowadays things are much better for them, in the Western sphere, at least.

 

[lariko]

I don't care if it's infantile black and white thinking, I will not tolerate someone actively trying to hurt a historically marginalised group. They may not have inflicted physical pain right this moment but so many have been physically hurt by people who hold these attitudes in the past.

Thank you to those who are fighting the good fight in this thread, it's not easy and it's tiring but someone needs to do it.

I just want to bring the thread back to celebrating the bravery of these people who have put themselves out there, knowing that they may be attacked for it, whether that's verbally or physically:

Kévin Aymoz, France
Jason Brown, USA
Guillaume Cizéron, France
Eric Radford, Canada
Paul Poirier, Canada
Timothy LeDuc, USA

100%

 

[Hyena]

I'm thrilled for all these skaters, and so happy for Timothy. Regardless of where they and Ashley place at the Olympics, this is ground-breaking. I hope this paves the way for other queer, non-binary, gender non-conforming, and trans skaters to make their way in the sport.

 

[crazydreamer]

It takes special strength/courage to put yourself out there internationally as a gay/bi/non-binary skater. That deserves special respect.

 

[skatingiscool]

Not only for Gay athletes, we should celebrate Lesbian athletes too!! Kudo to USFSA for supporting rainbow community! I hope other skating Fed will do the same (South Korea, Japan, Russia, China) and express support for gay/lesbian athletes.

 

[yume]

Not only for Gay athletes, we should celebrate Lesbian athletes too!! Kudo to USFSA for supporting rainbow community! I hope other skating Fed will do the same (South Korea, Japan, Russia, China) and express support for gay/lesbian athletes.

That won't happen tomorrow unfortunately.
The only out Asian athlete that i know is Fumie Suguri (Bisexual).

 

[CanadianSkaterGuy]

That won't happen tomorrow unfortunately.
The only out Asian athlete that i know is Fumie Suguri (Bisexual).

Yup! And there are others, including Amber Glenn who identifies as bisexual/pan sexual, Karina Manta who is bisexual, Rachel Parsons who is bisexual, and Kaitlyn Weaver who came out as queer (after Fumie she is the second female LBTQ Olympian).

Category:LGBT figure skaters - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[yelyoh]

That won't happen tomorrow unfortunately.
The only out Asian athlete that i know is Fumie Suguri (Bisexual).

I didn't know that. Good on Fumie!!!!!

 

[fallingsk8er]

Best of luck to all our LGBTQ+ athletes!

 

[Skatingcat]

So happy that there are LGBTQ athletes who are at the Olympics. Given the bigotry and hate that is out there, it truly takes a huge amount of courage.

I hope someday (soon) that more athletes are able to publicly identify themselves as LGTBQ without fear of repercussions, especially in countries where the bigotry is acceptable and considered the "norm."

Love is love is love

 

[Dreamer57]

Celebrating the rainbow with six publicly out gay Olympians:

Kévin Aymoz, France
Jason Brown, USA
Guillaume Cizéron, France
Eric Radford, Canada
Paul Poirier, Canada

and a special shout out to the first non-binary Winter Olympian, Timothy LeDuc, USA

This is from my own knowledge, so if there are more please let me know. I understand not every country has named its Olympic team, but I don't know of any publicly out skaters not yet named eligible for the Olympics; again if I am missing something, please let me know.

Lewis Gibson, Great Britain!

Lewis Gibson talks for the first time about being gay and married, on eve of the Olympics - Outsports

Lewis Gibson and ice dancing partner Lilah Fear will represent Team Great Britain at the Beijing Olympics.

www.outsports.com

This is his first media interview about being LGBTQ, published today.

 

[el henry]

Lewis Gibson, Great Britain!

Lewis Gibson talks for the first time about being gay and married, on eve of the Olympics - Outsports

Lewis Gibson and ice dancing partner Lilah Fear will represent Team Great Britain at the Beijing Olympics.

www.outsports.com

This is his first media interview about being LGBTQ, published today.

Thank you, I will edit the OP!

Bravo, Lewis! And he's married too, I'm learning new things about Lewis.

 

[moonvine]

Gus Kenworthy will be representing Team GB in halfpipe (he previously represented the US)

 

[ladyjane]

I am just so pleased gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, trans, as well as non binary skaters can go out there, and do not have to hide their orientation or how they feel about what their gender should be and skate lights out! I definitely celebrate all skates who managed to get onto the Olympics teams (I want to see good skating), but I just am so happy those who are not accepted everywhere can skate as their own selves.

 

[DancingCactus]

A lot has changed in the last 10 years, were afaik the only active out skater was Johnny Weir who had never publicly made an announcement and was still treated badly by both media and judges.

 

[cathlen]

Filippo Ambrosini
Kevin Aymoz
Jason Brown
Guillaume Cizeron
Lewis Gibson
Timothy LeDuc
Paul Poirier
Simon Proulx Sénécal
Eric Radford

I wish all of them to be treated fairly and without any predujice!

There is an article about LGBTQ+ community at Olympics: https://www.outsports.com/olympics/...ijing-winter-olympics-lgbtq-gay-athletes-list It's nice except they are saying there was no gay out Winter Olympian prior to 2018 Olympics, and we all know Eric Radford was openly gay already at 2014.