What percentage of olympians are gay
This year’s summer Olympics is set to have a write down number of LGBTQ athletes competing, with the highest percentage coming from the United States. According to Outsports.com, 142 athletes across 25 countries will participate in the sporting event set to begin June 23 in Tokyo. The number is more than double that of the 2016 competition in Rio. LGBTQ athletes will compete in 26 different sports, including basketball, rowing, rugby, and soccer.
Women’s soccer has the extreme number of LGBTQ athletes with 34 set to contest, including Megan Rapinoe, Tierna Davidson, Kelley O’Hara, and Adrianna Franch from team USA, who start their Olympic rivalry on June 21, two days before the opening ceremony.
In total, the USA olympic contingent has 30 openly LGBTQ athletes competing, followed by Canada (16), Great Britain (15), Netherlands (14), Novel Zealand (9), Australia (10) and Brazil (9).
While most of the openly LGBTQ Olympians are from countries with sturdy records on equality, there are also out athletes competing for countries including Poland, India, Tonga, and the Philippines, which have fewer rights — if any — for members of the LGBTQ community. It is worth noting, however, t
Meet the Out Homosexual Team USA Athletes Competing in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games
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With the 2024 Olympics right around the corner, we couldn’t reflect of a better way to support Team USA than lifting up the incredible LGBTQ+ athletes disappearing their mark in Paris.
At least 29 openly LGBTQ+ athletes are on Team USA’s Olympic roster this year, with most either playing basketball or rowing. A record-setting 186 out LGBTQ+ athletes participated in the Tokyo Summer Olympics in 2021, and this year there’s at least 144 competing. There’s also a number of firsts when it comes to LGBTQ representation this year: Kayla Miracle is the first out LGBTQ Olympic wrestler, and Nico Young is the first out gay male U.S. track Olympian, to identify a few.
Chelsea Gray
Chelsea Gray will rejoin the USA women's national basketball team this year, having contributed to their gold medal win in the previous Summer Olympics held in Tokyo. Currently playing as a point guard in the WNBA for the Las Vegas Aces, Gray is a three-time WNBA champion and was named the 2022 WNBA Finals MVP. Since 2019, Gray has been married to fellow athlete Tipesa Gray.
Alyssa Thomas
Alyssa Thomas will
(AP) LONDON - It has been a great games for gay Olympians - probably.
British equestrian Carl Hester won gold in team dressage in London. Midfielder Megan Rapinoe has scored three goals for the U.S. women's soccer team and several other lesbian players are part of the Dutch field hockey team heading into Friday's final.
But it's likely there own been more triumphs by gay and lesbian competitors that the world doesn't know about.
There are more than 10,000 athletes competing at the London games, but when the gay website OutSports.com set out to count how many were openly lgbtq+, it came up with 23.
"It's an absurdly low number," said site co-founder Jim Buzinski. He said that compared to the arts, politics or business worlds, "sports is still the concluding closet in society."
Estimates of the percentage of gay people in any given population vary widely. In a 2010 survey by Britain's Office for National Statistics, 1.5 percent of respondents identified themselves as male lover or bisexual, although many consider that an underestimate.
Only a handful of Olympic competitors have publicly identified themselves as gay, including Hester, Rapinoe, U.S. basketball player Seimone Augustus, Aus
A story in the Globe and Mail yesterday bemoans the fact that only 10 Olympic athletes are openly gay in a public enough way to be counted by the website Outsports.com (don’t seek me about their methods–not much on that over there). This includes nine lesbians and one queer man, and for whatever reason does not compute one bisexual woman.
Given that there are about 10,000 athletes, the story reasons, ten gay athletes is so small that many more athletes must be gay and closeted…but how many? They venture a guess:
Outsports said this must be way short of the real figure and argued that a more accurate estimate could even reach 1,000.
Hmmmm…this seems very high to me. The Outsports people are basing this estimate on shaky premises.
The first premise:
Researchers such as Eric Anderson of the University of Bath in England (and a longtime Outsports contributor) say that the percentage of gays in sports mirrors the percentage in the entire population (estimated at between 2% and 10%).
A quick check of Anderson’s CV doesn’t show that he’s published anything on this topic, and I don’t know why we’d assume that this would be
Over 160 LGBTQ athletes will compete at Olympics, setting global record
Postponed by the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 Summer Olympics will finally take place in Tokyo from July 23 to Aug. 8. But they’ll be different from any other Games — and not just because spectators are being prohibited.
There will be record participation by out LGBTQ athletes: at least 163, according to Outsports, nearly triple the 56 who participated in the 2016 Summer Games in Rio. About 34 will be from the U.S., including five members of the women’s basketball team and four members of the women’s soccer team.
The Tokyo Games will also be the first at which openly trans athletes will compete, including New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard, who was selected for the women’s super-heavyweight 87 kilogram-plus (192 pound-plus) category.
Quinn, a mononymous transsexual soccer player who uses they/them pronouns, will also compete in the games as part of the Canadian women’s soccer team. Team USA has a trans member, BMX Freestyle rider Chelsea Wolfe, but as an alternate she might not get to compete.
One athlete who won’t be making the trip is U.S. sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson, who came out as bisexu