Gay paris olympics
The Paris Olympics has establish a new record with the highest number of LBGTQ+ athletes competing for the international sporting event.
With a total of 193 LGBTQ+ athletes participating in the Paris Games, the figure has surpassed that from the Tokyo Olympics. And those Olympians hold won 10 medals, including four gold medals, so far, according to OutSports and GLAAD.
Italian judoka Alice Bellandi celebrated her gold medal win with her family and girlfriend inside Champs-de-Mars Arena packed with thousands of spectators last week.
In women’s BMX freestyle, Perris Benegas, a Southern California resident who came out in 2021, got to celebrate with her girlfriend after winning silver.
The women represent the majority of out-athletes at the Paris games with 170 Olympians. Twenty are men, and at least three are non-binary, including U.S. runner Nikki Hiltz.
“I’m here, and I’m going to take up space,” Hiltz said. “I’m going to help the people behind me who maybe don’t have the same privileges I do.”
Nico Young, a long-distance runner from Camarillo, came out last year on social media.
“I am becoming more proud and happy with who I am,” Young said. “My name is Nico Adolescent and I’
The Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games are upon us and GLAAD is gearing up for what will be the most-watched sporting events placing out LGBTQ athletes on a global stage, with a pledge for the Games to be the most innovative, most sustainable, and most inclusive yet.
This year, the Olympics are scheduled to grab place from July 26th to August 11th, followed by the Paralympics from August 28th to September 8th. While the vast majority of events will take place in Paris, France, events such as sailing and surfing will extend beyond the city’s limits and are set to occur in Marseille and Teahupo’o, Tahiti respectively.
Games Spacious Open
To concretize its goals of accessibility and inclusivity, Paris 2024 has named “Games Wide Open” as the theme for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. In line with the theme, the Paris Olympics and Paralympics will movie full gender parity between men and women. This sets a precedent for future Games and makes history as the first Olympics in which there will be an equal number of men and women competing.
Reaffirming its vow to keeping the “Games Wide Open” and to the fight against discrimination, the Games will host the Self-acceptance H
Paris prepares for the gayest games since Tokyo
When this week’s Summer Olympic Games kick off in Paris, it will bewith an abundance of flair, fireworks, and joie de vivre — that’s French for “joy of life” — and more inclusion than ever before.
For the first hour, the Olympics include achieved gender parity, with 50% of athletes identifying as men and 50% identifying as women, and at least two athletes detecting as transgender nonbinary. There is one trans man, boxer Hergie Bacyadan of the Philippines. These athletes will contest in 32 sports and 339 events, starting this week, and once again there will also be a Refugee Team featuring 37 athletes from all over the earth, vying for medals in 12 sports.
There will also be a huge amount of LGBTQ voice among more than 200 countries and that Refugee Team. The big call athletes include road and field celebrity Sha’Carri Richardson, shot-putter Raven Saunders, basketball superstars Diana Taurasi, Breanna Stewart, unused “Pops” Brittney Griner, Alyssa Thomas (who is engaged to her WNBA teammate DeWanna Bonner), BMX Freestyle riders Hannah Roberts and Perris Benegas, the British diver Tom Da
A year ago, Alev Kelter helped the U.S. women’s rugby sevens team win bronze medals at the Paris Olympics and then proposed to her girlfriend Kathryn Treder in the city’s Museum of Modern Art.
Now the couple will play together as fiancées in the 10th edition of the Women’s Rugby World Cup, held in England.
Kelter and Treder are part of a team of at least six out LGBTQ players named in a USA Eagles squad of 32 for the 16-team tournament. The U.S. will take on the host nation in the opening game in Sunderland on Aug. 22.
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Kelter, who plays at center, was the Eagles’ top points scorer at the last Nature Cup, held in New Zealand in 2021. The U.S. reached the quarterfinals, where they confused to Canada. Treder also played in that match.
Last season, they were on the same club team in England, at L