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In his youth, Zeller was an enthusiastic member of the Stouffville Figure Skating Club.
1987 - Stuart Livie passed away in San Francisco. Photo courtesy University of Southern California Libraries.
2013 – Activists and athletes alike voiced their concerns about Russia's limits on LGBTQ+ rights in the lead-up to the Sochi Olympics.
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5 p.m. I’m really, really proud of the progress that I’ve made, solving those equipment issues.”
Brown can’t compete with the Quad God, U.S. Men’s Champion Ilia Malinin (who boasts he will attempt six quads in his Free Skate at Worlds). Be You!, an LGBTQ+ Skating and Dancing Party benefiting the Boston Children's Hospital Center For Gender Surgery.
In hindsight, I may have overreacted in trying to protect my privacy."
1998 - Due to sanctioning issues, the figure skating competition at the Gay Games in Amsterdam was turned into a series of "public practices".
1999 - Rudy Galindo made a cameo appearance on the Emmy award winning comedy series "Will And Grace".
2000 - Canadian scholar Samantha King's thesis "Consuming Compassion: AIDS, Figure Skating and Canadian Identity" was one of the first academic works to explore the impact of the LGBTQ+ community in figure skating.
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2001 - Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau's film "Ma vraie vie à Rouen" told the coming-of-age story of a gay figure skater.
2001 - Canadian Champion Emanuel Sandhu appeared on the front cover of LGBTQ+ magazine "Xtra!
Kobayashi's skating exploits were regularly featured in the "Bay Area Reporter".
1997 - "Skates Of Pride" was presented at the Ice Theatre Of New York's Ice Rink not long after the city's Pride Parade. We strive to support LGBTQ+ skaters, coaches, judges. Reproduced for educational purposes under license permission.
1998 – World Champion Brian Orser was outed when his former partner sued him for palimony.
In 2014, writer Kenneth Caldwell recalled his time working for Rodriguez and his partner Harry.
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1953 - The same month he won a pair of silver medals in ice dancing at the North American Championships, Donald Jacoby was arrested on 'morals charges'.
By the late nineties, the Union had members from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Great Britain, Israel and the United States.
1992 – Canadian Bronze Medallist Matthew Hall was one of the first elite Canadian athletes to publicly come out during their competitive career.
Trevor Kruse and Darren Singbeil's program about the military's 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy at the 1994 Gay Games
1994 - Figure skating was included in the Gay Games for the first time.
The following year, Freddie (an Air Gunner with the Royal Air Force) was tragically killed during an operational flight over the English Channel.
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1945 - LGBTQ+ icon Judy Garland attended the Ice Follies in Los Angeles.
1950 - A long-term relationship between two women was an open secret in the figure skating world.
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1950 - Art Gelien won the silver medal in the pairs event at the Pacific Coast Championships.
She didn’t have the 2025 Nationals (held in Wichita, Kan.) she’d hoped for, but she still took the gold medal.
“Coming into these Nationals, I wasn’t feeling my absolute best, and not being able to fully lock in. Among them, Olympic Medallists, World Champions, coaches, choreographers and ice show stars. His story was featured on Gay.com and "Outsports".
2009 - Skate Canada was criticized for messaging about making figure skating in Canada more "tough", in an attempt to attract more young men to the sport.
He is the town's first openly gay mayor.
2021 – Amber Glenn made history as the first openly pansexual skater to win a medal at the U.S. Championships.
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1 p.m. For every great gay actor there is one who isn't."
1976 - Toller Cranston faced criticism in "The Body Politic Gay Liberation Journal".
He received words of encouragement from Olympic Gold Medallists Dick Button and Carol Heiss Jenkins.
2014 - Over seventy categories were included in the figure skating competitions at the Gay Games in Cleveland. Out Men’s competitor Jason Brown, arguably the most beloved skater in the world, will be there.
Brown didn’t compete at Nationals either, citing “a series of challenges adjusting to an equipment change.” That typically means issues with boots/skates.
“Breaking in skates is one of the most painful — and annoying — things a skater has to go through,” wrote Gracie Abrams on FigureSkatingAdvice.com.
Guests included Guillaume Cizeron, Eric Radford, Rachel Nevares, Shawn Sawyer and Amber Glenn.
Colin Ratushniak
2020 – Dancing On Ice star Colin Ratushniak was elected mayor of the town of La Ronge, Saskatchewan.
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