

I cannot make someone else gay and being around me won't make anyone else this way. "I do not choose to be this way, and it is not a fad. "No part of me is a mistake," she said in coming out to her congregation. As you can imagine, a Mormon church might not be the most welcoming place to come out, then-but that's exactly what one 12-year-old girl, named only as Savannah, did. Succinctly: it's not verboten to be homosexual, though it still is to act on such attraction. In October 2016, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints updated their guidelines on homosexuality.

After Kenworthy's third run in down the halfpipe, at the 2018 Olympics in Pyeonchang, cameras captured a candid kiss between the skier and his boyfriend, actor Matt Wilkas.
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"That's actually something I want so bad-a TV boyfriend." Sometimes, dreams come true. "Part of the stress is the fact that I've never had a TV boyfriend," he told ESPN in his coming out story. (In case you think that Kenworthy is trying to brush off a poor performance, know that he's one of the best in the field: Kenworthy scored a silver medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics, in Sochi, and regularly scores podium positions on both the U.S. According to Kenworthy, the question shook him, and he went on to lose the contest. At one point, Kenworthy details an account of how, right before a high-stress run, a reporter asked him if his girlfriend would be cheering him on. In the interview, Kenworthy talks about remaining closeted while competing in the testosterone-addled world of action sports. Kenworthy can claim another distinction, though: the first openly gay "action sports athlete," as detailed in an ESPN cover story. Shortly after Rippon (right) came out, Gus Kenworthy (left), another U.S. The freestyle skier who also paved the way If they go to the Olympics, they can just be called Olympians." 3. "I hope that, in a way, it makes it easier for other young kids who are gay. I'm just an Olympian that's also gay," he told the Washington Post.
