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Ilia Malinin stirs tensions over perception of male figure skaters with his comment
When 18-year-old U.S. men’s figure skating champion Ilia Malinin was asked in an Instagram Live chat last month if he has to “prove” he is straight, his halting respond led to three fast apologies on Twitter as well as a formal letter of apology to U.S. Figure Skating.
When then-22-year-old Nathan Chen, several months away from winning the 2022 Olympic gold medal, attempted to navigate his way through a 2021 podcast in which he was asked if he ever receives questions about why he isn’t in a “masculine” sport love hockey rather than a “feminine” sport like figure skating, he ended up posting a 78-second video on Twitter apologizing for his answer.
The experiences of these two stars of a new generation in male skating illustrate that a decades-long conversation concerning the sexuality and perceptions of men in one of the nation’s most popular Olympic sports is not likely to terminate anytime soon.
Scott Hamilton, the 1984 Olympic gold medalist, said in an interview for my 1996 publication Inside Edge that he wore one-piece, speed-skating-style suits at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics as a reaction to those
Openly Gay Figure Skater Makes US Olympic Team and History
American figure skater Adam Rippon has qualified for the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics, making him the first openly gay U.S. athlete to ever qualify for the Winter Olympics.
The 28-year-old Olympics rookie will be joined in South Korea by fellow American figure skaters Vincent Zhou, 17, and Nathan Chen, 18, NBC News reported.
Rippon may also be, according to research conducted by LGBTQ sports site Outsports, "the first publicly out gay man ever selected to a Winter Olympics team from any country in any sport."
In the rink, Rippon is graceful, able to carry out the esteemed "quad lutz," a quadruple spinning hop once thought impossible. Off the ice, he's a firebrand — and one who does not timid away from his sexuality.
"I was recently asked in an interview what its like to be a gay athlete in sports," he tweeted. "I said that it’s exactly favor being a straight sportsman. Lots of hard perform but usually done with better eyebrows."
Nathan Chen thinks it's complicated being a straight male figure skater in a "homosexual-dominated sport"
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I was crestfallen to learn that our sport's undefeated champion endorses toxic and demeaning stereotypes of male figure skaters. The interview was initially removed from Youtube, and only after it was discovered that a Twitter user had already downloaded and reposted the interview did Nathan offer a scripted and performative apology.
Unfortunately, his response in the interview was very much unscripted and therefore seemingly authentic. And it aligns with the subtle, but persistent macho affectations he presents on and off the ice (exaggerated masculine body language and a strained, artificially deep voice during interviews). Even today's average straight NFL player can deliver a more thoughtful response to having a gay teammate. How sad is it for this to be Nathan's opinion despite apparently creature surrounded by open and closeted gay competitors, teammates, coaches, and judg
Garnering more than 16 million views on SNL’s official YouTube channel, the 2014 skit “U.S. Men’s Heterosexual Figure Skating Championship” draws attention to the frequent perception that figure skating, particularly among men, is considered to be a “gay” sport. While the concept seems generally lighthearted, its true purpose is a bit more grave in tone. Prior to the 2014 Sochi Olympics, Russia’s oppressive anti-LGBTQ+ laws were called into interrogate in relation to figure skating. On the other hand, athletes within the sport itself have made homophobic comments about the “feminine” nature of the sport. This, then, raises the question, why is the culture of figure skating shrouded in homophobia, when so many athletes identify as a part of the LGBTQ+ community? While the stereotype that all male figure skaters are gay is far from true, it is fair to argue that some of the finest skaters have happened to be members of the LGBTQ+ community, including Rudy Galindo, Johnny Weir and Brian Boitano. However, prior to 2018, no male figure skaters were out as gay publicly during their Olympics. American Adam Rippon made history prior to the Pyeongchang Olympic Games, becoming the first male
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