'Gayt Sport Ameri' - Outsports

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• THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 39 GAY OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS. HERE’S THE LIST
• 'GAYT SPORT AMERI'
• 16 GAY AND BI OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS

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. LGBT historian Tony Scupham-Bilton has intified the men over the years, cludg a pastakg procs of intifyg who is gay.

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:. But when you tune to the Wter Olympics, not one of the figure skatg ntenrs any disciple (sgl, pairs, dance) will be an out gay man.

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There will be gay men petg Tur, to be sure -- cludg some who nsir themselv to be out their personal liv -- but not one who will say so on the public rerd. What percentage of male figure skaters is gay?

And do that mean nothg has changed what Jon Jackson, an openly gay skatg judge, lls "the gayt sport Ameri"? But I remember when Rudy Galdo started sayg that the judg treated him differently bee he was gay...

So I kda ma sure that I stuck to my ual and tried not to do anythg that would've been emed 'gay. Tryg not to be emed gay skatg requir behavr rangg om the overt, such as datg women, to tails so subtle that they affect the very way the skater mov his limbs while puttg himself out there to be judged.

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Jackson nfirmed that the homophobia of judg and feratns affects the athlet. Unfortunately, he said he do not believe homophobic officials are the mory.

This across every discsn I've had wh a gay skater, that they really feel that they have to prent themselv as a 'passable' mascule skater, " said Jackson. So gay skaters eher e out long after their petive reers are over, as 1979 world champn Randy Gardner (wh pair partner Tai Babilonia) jt did January, or when they're so far off the radar screen that their feratns aren't monorg them, as happened whRudy Galdo 1995 when he was nsired a has-been. What's changed sce 1996, though, is that many of the Olympic-eligible gay skaters nsir themselv to be fully out their personal liv.

"Wh the rk environment, for the most part, I'm noticg more and more that the ach, the fellow skaters are all very acceptg and fortable and not the least b bothered by gay men. He se chang even among closeted gay ach of olr generatns, who n be some of the most vol crics of any skatg that appears the least b femme.