Isabel Yip

At least 193 out LGBTQ athletes will be in Paris for the 2024 Summer Games. This surpasses the record-setting Tokyo Olympics, held in the summer of 2021, where there were at least 186 out competitors.  This year, a record 20 male athletes participating in the summer Olympics are publicly out. Outsports co-founder Cyd Zeigler said equestrian, an Olympic sport with eight LGBTQ men participating, has “long been a leader in this space of out men.” The vast majority of athletes on the list of queer Olympians, approximately 170, are women. Lesbians and other queer women represent more than half of at […]

At least 144 out LGBTQ athletes will be heading to Paris for the 2024 Summer Games, with a record number of out male Olympians participating, according to the LGBTQ sports site OutSports. In the last Summer Olympics, held in Tokyo in 2021, there were at least 186 out competitors, but the list originally started at 121, according to OutSports co-founder Cyd Zeigler, who said the number increased as the sports news site became aware of additional publicly out athletes.  Zeigler said he anticipates that the number of out athletes on the 2024 list will grow as well.  “We’ve already, in the last […]