Need any more proof of homophobia in figure skating in Canada. Gawker is now on it too.


"Oh, Johnny. Dear, dear Johnny Weir. You just skated the routine of your life at the Olympics. It was fabulous, as always. Flawless, too. And even though the judges screwed you, we won't forget how great it was"



http://tv.gawker.com/5475294/johnny-weir-s...rewed-by-judges

I guess skate will never be rid of this radical heterosexualist agenda.

I think in reality it is more the over scoring of Patrick Chan than the under scoring of Johnny Weir. I don't think Weir was better than Takahashi. But there is a real issue here.

With Skate Canada making such a mess of things with the Gay community this past 10 months, everybody is on edge. Had Skate Canada hired some good PR people to defuse that, it would not be such a problem. There are now hundreds of gay blogs screaming about how Weir was robbed. That is going to manifest in resentment of figure skating in Canada. This is the bigger issue - the implied. I can't really, not blame, figure skating for pretending there is no problem, nothing like belittling an angry mob, to make them even angrier.

GLAAD has done a semi reversal and sort of come to Weir's defense. GLAADs motto is: if you are not out, you are not one of us....and pass the champagne.

There was a loud booing from the audience, when Weir got his long scores. The crowd did not like that.

As in this previous discussion, Skate Canada's push to de-homosexualize Figure Skating.

Meanwhile, Elvis Stojko needs to get over it. Insecure straight men are boring and tiresome.

I don't think the Gawker article is explicitly blaming homophobia. And frankly, most of the skaters in that lead group come across as being light in the loafers if you ask me. Evan Lysacek and his feathers and tears looks gay, gay, gay to me. Patrick Chan seems pretty gay; even Canada's straight white hope, Vaughn Chipeur, would not look out of place at Woody's. Weir is not the only skater that has been more popular with the crowds than with the judges. His personality transcends the sport, and that will help him in his post-competition career. Because who's going to go to the Ice Capades to see Lysacek or Abbott? No, people want to see Johnny Weir and the dying swan outfit.

I'm surprised the homophobic remarks about Johnny Weir by two Canadian broadcasters a few days ago haven't been mentioned here, but I was impressed by the way Weir is handling it.

http://www.nowtoronto.com/daily/story.cfm?content=173839