No, this isn’t another post on hazing. We’re talking figure skating folks. An openly gay skating judge called it the “gayest sport in America”, yet the sport discriminates against gays.
Officials, judges, and skating federations, especially in the U.S., make it clear that they prefer male skaters to look “masculine” and will be harsher on effeminate-looking skaters when it comes to giving marks or desirable competitive assignments.
So because of fear of lower scores, male figure skaters won’t come out of the closet. This is insane to me. This is figure skating folks, the sport that’s almost synonymous with gay, yet the governing body is afraid of their image if skaters admitted to being gay? That’s like NASCAR afraid that one of their drivers will be too white trash.
[Outsports]: ‘Gayest Sport in America’
