Gay olympic wrestling
Meet the Out LGBTQ+ Team USA Athletes Competing in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games
by HRC Staff •
With the 2024 Olympics right around the corner, we couldn’t think of a better way to support Team USA than lifting up the incredible Diverse athletes leaving 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 Juvenile is the first out gay male U.S. track Olympian, to name 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 signal 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.
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Sydney 2002
Gay Games
Wrestling
Report
Anne Clarkes
Recreation Centre
Lidcombe, Sydney, NSW, Australia
3-4 November 2002
by Gene Dermody,
Federation Sports Coordinator for Wrestling
I preface this describe acknowledging that I contain competed and coached at every Gay Games, and have been involved at some level within the Federation since 1992. It was the ‘almost-fiasco’ of the 1990 Vancouver Male lover Games III Wrestling that propelled me to connect the Federation and found Wrestlers WithOut Borders (WWB), which is now a Director Organization of the Federation. I also express regret that this report is so heavy on jpgs from Golden Gate Wrestling (GGWC). I wish I had more pictures to pick from.
This will be my ‘swan song’ as I retire at 54 having finally won a Gold to go with my Silvers and Bronzes. Every Same-sex attracted Games wrestling tournament since 1982 has had its positives and negatives, and it has been a struggle with the Federa Image Via We called up Roger Brigham, a coach at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Wrestling Club to inquire about the continued universe of gay sports clubs in an increasingly homosexual friendly world. VICE: Accomplish we still need “gay sports clubs,” is it naive to assume that in a modern earth all clubs should be gay friendly? Roger Brigham: Yes it is innocent. There are still significant barriers to overcome. We’ve had this discussion many times with different clubs, because different clubs market themselves differently. Some place the fact that they’re gay right up front, where others you hold to dig a petty bit further. We call for to put it out there, because we dependency to make sure the conversation occurs. We don’t want somebody to be in a club and find out that peop ARussiancoach furious about the International Olympic Committee's recent judgment to remove wrestling from the 2020 Olympics has made an inflammatory claim about who is to blame for the move. Speaking to Russian sports site R-Sport, Russian wrestling coach Vladimir Uruimagov said that the IOC's decision was evidence of a queer conspiracy. “If they expel wrestling now, that means that gays will soon sprint the whole world,” Uruimagov said, adding that cutting wrestling from the Olympic program was “a burst to masculine origins.” Visit R-Sport to read what else Uruimagov had to speak. Uruimagov's allegations follow recent criticism leveled at the IOC for not pushing back hard enough against participating countries that criminalize homosexuality, R-Sport notes. Meanwhile, Russia's anti-gay propaganda bill, which is expected to pass the legislature, may be indicative of the pervasiveness of homophobia in Russia. Homosexuality was a criminal offense in the Soviet Union from 1934 until 1993, according to The Moscow Times, resulting in thousands of jail and asylum sentences for members of the LGBT collective. Gay rights advocates include protested the bill, which would b Nothing says ‘homoerotic’ like buff, sweaty guys in junk-defining spandex, their heads locked into an opponent’s crotch and their hips thrusting wildly as they gasp for breath. In a just world, Olympic wrestling would come with an SH rating, for “screamingly homo.” Given the history of wrestling, it had to be thus. The ancient Greeks, champions of man-boy love, invented the sport. They competed naked. Centuries later, so did the male protagonists in D.H. Lawrence’s 1920 classic, Women in Love, in front of a roaring fireplace. Ken Russell re-created the erotic scene in his film adaptation in ’69. Against this picturesque backdrop, the coach of Russia’s Olympic wrestling team last week created a stir by publicly blaming “a gay conspiracy” for the International Olympic Committee’s shocking choice to drop wrestling from the 2020 Games. “If they expel wrestling n
When we first heard about a gay wrestling club in San Francisco we were like, those San Franciscans. Of course you have a unique club where dudes wear spandex and roll around trying to dominate each other with their forceful thighs. Then it occurred to us, isn’t that all wrestling clubs? Why does it matter that this one’s gay? Turns out gay sports clubs are a popular highlight of the athletic landscape.
Russian Coach: Olympics Dropping Wrestling Is a Gay Conspiracy
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With the exception of dressage, is there any Olympic sport gayer than wrestling?