The 14 Openly Gay Athletes Of The 2012 Olympics

[æonpax]

Out of more than 12,000 athletes, 14 are openly gay. Get to know them. - http://www.buzzfeed.com/jpmoore/the-14-openly-gay-athletes-of-the-2012-olympics

Actually, there are 20 if you follow one particular link. This site is pictorial. No bisexuals are being officially represented, but I'd guess that a good 20 % of the 14 to 17 thousand athletes participating, are closet bisexuals.
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[Long Duck Dong]

.regardless of the sexuality, I wish all the athletes the best of luck and tho there are a limited number of medals to be awarded.. the achievement of getting to the games and the chance to complete, and possibly even set a personal best time or score in a event at the olympics..... they can be moments in time for people that matter more to them than getting on the podium.....

personally, I love the weight lifting... and the gymnastics, specially the floor routines, they make it look so easy...

PS matthew mitcham is the type of asshole that the gay community do not need representing them, with a mouth like his.......

07 September 2009 interview with steve dow
“I don’t see sexuality as influencing my beliefs or opinions or perceptions of anybody, whether they’re gay, straight, bi, trans, experimental, I don’t care. I see it as a very uninfluential factor in people.”


his tweet about a issue with a heterosexual couple at the 2008 olympics

"The last thing I need is a sexually frustrated breeder with a shotgun being cross with me. No comment, thank you very much!!"

[Bicuriousity]

Swedish soccer players are well represented

Not sure the handball and field hockey connection.


.regardless of the sexuality, I wish all the athletes the best of luck and tho there are a limited number of medals to be awarded.. the achievement of getting to the games and the chance to complete, and possibly even set a personal best time or score in a event at the olympics..... they can be moments in time for people that matter more to them than getting on the podium.....

personally, I love the weight lifting... and the gymnastics, specially the floor routines, they make it look so easy...

PS matthew mitcham is the type of asshole that the gay community do not need representing them, with a mouth like his.......

07 September 2009 interview with steve dow
“I don’t see sexuality as influencing my beliefs or opinions or perceptions of anybody, whether they’re gay, straight, bi, trans, experimental, I don’t care. I see it as a very uninfluential factor in people.”


his tweet about a issue with a heterosexual couple at the 2008 olympics

"The last thing I need is a sexually frustrated breeder with a shotgun being cross with me. No comment, thank you very much!!"

[æonpax]

Swedish soccer players are well represented Not sure the handball and field hockey connection.

According to the papers, the 2012 Olympics has the largest group of LGBT members representing them.

[darkeyes]

One of the reasons why there are so few openly gay and bisexual athletes is cos if they were out, unless they were absolutely oustanding they wouldn't be selected.. and this is especially true of the British athletes... most sports are in the hands of those who are still dinosaurs and have not yet come to terms with the changed situation vis a vis homosexuality in the west... but they are there and in some numbers and it would be nice to see a few of them sporting rainbow badges but they won't... I remember the hoo ha when two British women Hockey players openly declared their lesbianism and love for each other at an Olympic Games.. I thought it was beautiful even if I was only young...but media administrators and many of the more bigoted of the British public were loudest in their outrage, condemnation and ridicule.. those who supported and in whose interests such support was needed were loudest in their silence...

I don't care for the Olympic Games, and am glad I am well out of it.. but sportsmen and women, like any other entertainers and role models have an obligation to those who pay their wages.. and I don't mean the sponsors.. for without those who watch there would be no sponsors.. and among those who watch either on telly or in sporting venues there are millions of people like us.. gay, bisexual and transgendered who would like to see those of our number who compete come out publicly in support of what they are and their right to be.. but such is the closed world of most sports that few will do so...

It should not matter the sexuality of our sporting heroes, yet it does.. it does because while legally in the west at least, we are supposedly equal to our heterosexual brothers and sisters, the reality is that we have a long way to go before we are completely accepted., and so it is to be hoped that over the course of these games a few of our number excel, and come out and shout to the world who and what they are.. but personally I won't hold my breath...

[12voltman59]

It does seem that sport is one of those last bastions in society that GLBT people are not yet quite accepted is in the ranks of professional competitive sports--but that is slowly changing.

I just got done watched another edition of the Tour de France-it was a great race for the Brits with Bradley Wiggins being the first Brit to win the race in its 99 year history and there were other Britons right up there as well.

Congrats to them!!

I was wondering at how many of those guys in the Tour are gay or bi----most of the ones you see are married and have kids---but out of a group of something like 160 riders or so---you know that not all of them are straight and we have some "rainbow people" who take part in that sport.

I will bet that within not too many more years---there will be a gay or bi winner of the Maillot Jaune (yellow jersey) standing up on the podium in Paris with the Arc de Triomphe in the background.

I have heard that there are a few, "out and proud" lesbians who are female competitive bicycle racers.

It is good that there are these athletes competing in this year's summer games who are openly "gay" It does help to increase the acceptance of that--and in turn--we can gain more acceptance over time as well.

[aLABiM75 & StrF51]

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Do not know why their sexuality should matter one way or the other.
But: Just to let the sexist out of this guy for a bit....

That, Natalie Cook, is hooooooot!

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