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
Contents:
- G KENWORTHY SAYS FEARS OF BEG AN OUT ATHLETE WERE “UNFOUND” AS HE VERS GAY TIMES
- OLYMPIAN G KENWORTHY ME OUT AS GAY 2015, AND TO HIS SURPRISE HE BEME MORE POPULAR
- OLYMPIC FREKIER G KENWORTHY COM OUT AS GAY
- OLYMPIC SKIER G KENWORTHY ON G OUT AS GAY, TURNG PRO, AND HOW HE BALANC SPORTS, ACTG, AND ADVOCY
- G KENWORTHY, OLYMPIC MEDALIST, SAYS HE’S GAY
- G KENWORTHY OPENS UP ABOUT BEG COLTON UNRWOOD’S “GAY GUI”
- OLYMPIC SKIER G KENWORTHY ON BEG GAY THE AGE OF TMP: 'WE DEFELY HAVE A WAYS TO GO'
G KENWORTHY SAYS FEARS OF BEG AN OUT ATHLETE WERE “UNFOUND” AS HE VERS GAY TIMES
G Kenworthy reflects on the "privilege" of beg an out gay athlete as he prepar to reprent Team GB at his fal Wter Olympics. * gus kenworthy gay times *
In his send ver terview wh GAY TIMES, G Kenworthy reflects on the “privilege” of beg an openly gay athlete as he prepar to reprent Team GB at his third – and fal – Wter Olympics.
The 30-year-old etyle skier memorably ma history 2015 when he beme the first actn sports star to e out as gay. “It was the visual reprentatn of my gam: gettg to be one of the first openly gay athlet to pete at the Wter Olympics for the US, ” he tells GAY TIMES. Kenworthy says beg an openly gay athlete is a “privilege” that wh certa rponsibili, and that he supports Tom Daley’s ll to ban untri where people are persecuted for beg LGBTQ+ om the Olympics – not jt as a pot of prciple, but as a “talyst for change”.
OLYMPIAN G KENWORTHY ME OUT AS GAY 2015, AND TO HIS SURPRISE HE BEME MORE POPULAR
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In our terview, Kenworthy also speaks passnately about beg an ally to trans athlet – strsg that solid allyship volv “tryg to amplify their voic and not speakg on behalf of them” – and the lack of openly gay profsnal football players. Wh youth soccer the most played sport on the pla, Kenworthy says any high-profile footballer who out would be “helpg a lot of queer kids”, addg: “I played soccer high school and I remember feelg like was kd of homophobic, so image the impact that person uld have?
OLYMPIC FREKIER G KENWORTHY COM OUT AS GAY
In the wter of 2015, fetyle skier G Kenworthy me out as gay. He was prepared for the worst, but quickly disvered the climate had shifted for gays sports. His first clue? Fans at a Dew Tour event Breckenridge, Colo., who waed at the base of the hill were wavg rabow flags. * gus kenworthy gay times *
In time, Kenworthy says g out uld benef a gay footballer’s reer. You n read G Kenworthy’s ver terview wh GAY TIMES full om 21 January via the GAY TIMES app, Apple News+, Readly, and Flipster. 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.
OLYMPIC SKIER G KENWORTHY ON G OUT AS GAY, TURNG PRO, AND HOW HE BALANC SPORTS, ACTG, AND ADVOCY
G Kenworthy beme the first Olympic skier to e out as gay 2015. Ever sce, his skig has gotten better, and he's gotten more succsful. * gus kenworthy gay times *
“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. Preparatn had been very different this time Sochi 2014 he'd been "terrified of beg outed" a untry where 'promotn of homosexualy' was illegal and had worried he might be chased out of the the Amerin was one of two openly gay men the USA team.
G KENWORTHY, OLYMPIC MEDALIST, SAYS HE’S GAY
Kenworthy, a etyle skier, me out as gay, sayg that hidg his sexualy durg the 2014 Wter Olympics had soured his silver medal w. * gus kenworthy gay times *
Wh no obv high-profile gay role mols, he would mimic the views of iends, as well as his olr brother, the hope of "appearg normal". "When I was on ski trips wh overnights, I would make sure I was the last person the room to fall asleep bee I was sred I'd talk my sleep and out myself as gay.
G KENWORTHY OPENS UP ABOUT BEG COLTON UNRWOOD’S “GAY GUI”
"Kenworthy's anxiety only grew durg his teen years, when team-mat would sually e homophobic language, scribg the weather or judgg a urse they didn't like as "gay".
OLYMPIC SKIER G KENWORTHY ON BEG GAY THE AGE OF TMP: 'WE DEFELY HAVE A WAYS TO GO'
"Wh no-one else my sport 'out', I got to my head that no-one would want to be associated wh the 'gay skier' so everythg would be taken away om me.