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• WTER OLYMPICS: THREE OPENLY GAY MEN PETE FOR A SPOT ON U.S. OLYMPIC TEAM
• FORMER OLYMPIC CANOEIST MATT LISTER: ‘PEOPLE BRAND ME AS A GAY ATHLETE’ – WATCH
• OLYMPIAN SAYS GAY MEN ARE WARDS, SO THERE AREN’T GAY MALE PRO SKIERS
• THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 39 GAY OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS. HERE’S THE LIST
• ‘PEOPLE BRAND ME AS A GAY ATHLETE’ SAYS EX-OLYMPIC NOEIST MATT LISTER, AS NEW STUDY FDS HOMOPHOBIA STILL PREVALENT SPORT
• WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE

WTER OLYMPICS: THREE OPENLY GAY MEN PETE FOR A SPOT ON U.S. OLYMPIC TEAM

Homosexualy was crimalized Rsia 1993, but the untry still has a dismal reputatn when to LGBTQ rights, thanks large part to a 2013 law that banned the spread of gay “propaganda. He is joed by figure skater Adam Rippon and etyle skier G Kenworthy, who me out publicly after wng the silver medal openly gay man has never peted for the U. But while Sochi set motn the cln of lbian, gay and bisexual athlet to this clse, transgenr and tersex athlet are still not protected unr the Olympic VS.

Of the 56 gay athlet R, there were 44 women and 11 men, spe women reprentg ls than half of the approximately 10, 500 Olympic athlet that year. “For men, there’s always been this ntradictn or stereotype that beg gay means you’re not mascule, and only mascule people play sports, ” Jim Buzski, -founr of Outsports, May, the programs ordator at OutRight Actn Internatnal, the only U.

FORMER OLYMPIC CANOEIST MATT LISTER: ‘PEOPLE BRAND ME AS A GAY ATHLETE’ – WATCH

”May, whose wife is former Olympic swimmer Casey Legler, said gay men have historilly not found as much sanctuary sports as lbians and bisexual women Jean Kg stands on the urt durg a match at Wimbledon Imag“Most petive sports are seen as the epome of achievement for masculy, which is also assumed to be straight, so there is not a lot of room for difference those narrativ, ” she explaed, addg that female athlet are often “already transgrsg expectatns around their genr jt orr to pete.

OLYMPIAN SAYS GAY MEN ARE WARDS, SO THERE AREN’T GAY MALE PRO SKIERS

OTHER DEVELOPED COUNTRIESThe list of openly gay Amerin male Olympians is short — very short. Then there was openly gay diver Patrick Jefey, who peted the 1996 Olympic Gam U. Sce 2004, gay men om Great Bra, the Netherlands, Fland, New Zealand, Atralia, Brazil and Tonga have seems to be a misnceptn about how liberal the U.

Is when to gay rights.

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

Consir gay marriage around the world.

‘PEOPLE BRAND ME AS A GAY ATHLETE’ SAYS EX-OLYMPIC NOEIST MATT LISTER, AS NEW STUDY FDS HOMOPHOBIA STILL PREVALENT SPORT

Enacted legislatn 2015 that allows same-sex upl to marry, gay marriage has been wily accepted several other untri — like Netherlands (2000), Belgium (2003), Spa (2005), Swen (2009) and Argenta (2010) — for years now.

”Four-time Olympic gold medalist Greg Louganis speculated that his mored homosexualy is most likely why Wheati did not put him on s cereal box after the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics. While mors swirled about his sexualy durg his Olympic days, Louganis didn’t e out publicly until the Gay Gam 1994. ” By g out, he add, athlet “help remove the stigma that there’s somethg wrong wh beg gay.

It tells the world that you n be a succsful athlete and be gay and ’s not an oxymoron. ”Now that he’s publicly out, Fennell said he hop he n set an example for LGBTQ asked what would have meant for him to have seen an openly gay Olympic luger when he was young, Fennell said, “I thk I wouldn’t have had some of the stggl I had g out.

WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE

And German diver Timo Barthel gave Outsports some thoughts on beg not “gay” or “straight. Before he head to Tokyo, Team USA rerve Nick Wagman gave Outsports the first terview of him talkg about beg gay.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

Former Olympic noeist Matt Lister is speakg out about homophobia sports.

WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE

Lister told The Eveng Standard, “Lots of people brand me as a gay athlete, but to me I was jt an athlete that was gay. Lister, now an LGBT ambassador for the Brish Athlet Commissn and workg wh UK gay rights anizatn Stonewall as a school role mol, also said that there is a “hooligan-kd of atmosphere” wh certa sports.

The report shows that “football fans are the most likely to hear homophobic abe, wh 72 per cent of fans hearg while watchg live sports the past five years.