Three Olympic figure skaters come out — 2 gay men and 1 queer woman
Three figure skaters, American Jason Brown and Canadians Paul Poirier and Kaitlyn Weaver, came out as gay and queer for Pride Month.
By Jim Buzinski | June 15, 2021Three figure skaters, American Jason Brown and Canadians Paul Poirier and Kaitlyn Weaver, came out as gay and queer for Pride Month.
By Jim Buzinski | June 15, 2021Three years after a right swipe on Tinder, Rippon and his partner are tying the knot.
By Alex Reimer | February 11, 2021Sports Equality’s new weekly wrap-up video tells the story of bisexual/pansexual figure skater Amber Glenn, who won the silver medal in the finals of the Ladies Competition.
By Dawn Ennis | January 24, 2021Every day in October we’re looking back at the athletes, coaches and events that made LGBTQ sports history.
By Dawn Ennis | October 24, 2020NBC makes a script commitment to the Olympic medalist and media star.
By Ken Schultz | October 23, 2020After representing Belgium in Sochi, Hendrickx shared his truth with the world days ahead of the 2018 Games.
By Cyd Zeigler | October 16, 2020ABC invited Adam Rippon to comment on a scenario, in which a young gay athlete struggling with coming out.
By Karleigh Webb | July 14, 2020Adam Rippon became the first openly gay athlete in U.S. history to medal at the Winter Olympics.
By Alex Reimer | June 23, 2020Brian Orser and Brian Boitano enthralled the sports world in 1988 with one of the great Olympic competitions.
By Cyd Zeigler | June 14, 2020The famous fabulous figure skater showed a Russian troll who’s the better man, by making a donation to a black trans charity in the transphobic and homophobic skater’s name.
By Dawn Ennis | June 12, 2020“I don’t know what got into me, I said to myself, ‘What do I have to lose?’” Guillaume Cizeron says of his decision to publicly come out as gay.
By Jim Buzinski | May 29, 2020The Olympic medalist is used to dazzling figure skating judges. But did you hear how he dazzled the panel on ‘Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me!’?
By Ken Schultz | May 21, 2020Eric Radford talks about that magical week at the Winter Olympics, plus quarantine and his budding music career.
By Cyd Zeigler | May 19, 2020Out LGBTQ athletes Chris Mosier, Sue Bird, Diana Taurasi and Caster Semenya are among those chosen by Nike to model competition uniforms for Tokyo 2020.
By Dawn Ennis | February 6, 2020Each week, Outsports’ managing editor selects big stories from the past 7 days of LGBTQ sports coverage, but this week we’re all about the Big Game.
By Dawn Ennis | February 1, 2020Almost one year to the day Ashley Cain-Gribble and Timothy LeDuc won the U.S. Pairs Championship, they were selected to represent the U.S. in Montreal.
By Dawn Ennis | January 31, 2020In the 1970s Gardner was coming out quietly while being forced into conversion therapy and winning National titles.
By Cyd Zeigler | January 13, 2020USA elite skater and junior national champion Amber Glenn came out in an interview.
By Karleigh Webb | December 17, 2019In his memoir, Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon writes about love, falling down, getting up, and, yes, Mike Pence.
By Cyd Zeigler | November 6, 2019No history of LGBT sports is complete without the man who paved the way for out figure skaters: Rudy Galindo
By Dawn Ennis | October 10, 2019