I kept thinking it was weird when they reported on the two gay women in the Sochi delegation...and Brian Boitano is also there. I assume this is why he did come out?
Willow: Yikes. Imagine the things...Buffy: No! Stop imagining! All of you! Xander: Already got the visual.
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Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
bon bon - Dec 19, 2013 10:26:22 am PST #15009 of 30000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Trudy Booth - Dec 19, 2013 10:29:53 am PST #15010 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Boitano said for years that it was nobody's business and had nothing to do with skating. Now that it DOES have something to do with skating... Go Brian :)
Scott Hamilton, otoh, according to dish I have heard, was pretty much out (though unstated), found Jesus, crawled back in, and got married.
It's a big deal in the world of male figure skating and not in a very good way. It's political and ugly and sad.
aurelia - Dec 19, 2013 10:31:46 am PST #15011 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I've never had this happen before. So I'm designing this show; spent 10 hours on Mon hanging and focusing; spent the last two days in tech (all outside of the day job) and a couple of hours ago I got a call telling me that the show is cancelled. I have to go strike everything today.
Hil R. - Dec 19, 2013 10:36:37 am PST #15012 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
As far as I can recall, the only two other big-name skaters who are publicly out are Rudy Galindo and Johnny Weir.
Sophia Brooks - Dec 19, 2013 10:37:31 am PST #15013 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Wow, aurelia. Will you get paid? What happened?
Escalators are death machines. I hateses them. When I worked at JC Penney some children were horsing around and got a finger stuck, and it was a bloodbath. Also an employee got her skirt stuck, and that was a scary couple of seconds, but she ripped her skirt out.
Hil R. - Dec 19, 2013 10:40:56 am PST #15014 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I was wrong. Wikipedia lists several others. A bunch of them came out publicly years after they'd retired from skating, and they'd never been hugely famous to begin with (like, Olympic bronze or something pretty cool like that, but not really a media favorite so didn't get much attention), so it wasn't really big headlines when they came out. [link]
Sophia Brooks - Dec 19, 2013 10:43:47 am PST #15015 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Out of all those people, I only recognize Randy Gardner, Brian Boitano, and Johnny Weir.
juliana - Dec 19, 2013 10:44:38 am PST #15016 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
So I'm designing this show; spent 10 hours on Mon hanging and focusing; spent the last two days in tech (all outside of the day job) and a couple of hours ago I got a call telling me that the show is cancelled. I have to go strike everything today.
Oof, that sucks. I'm sorry.
Jesse - Dec 19, 2013 10:47:22 am PST #15017 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yikes, aurelia. That sucks for all involved.
Both of my officemates have left for the year! Party at my place!!
...OK, maybe not.
Hil R. - Dec 19, 2013 10:51:24 am PST #15018 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Out of all those people, I only recognize Randy Gardner, Brian Boitano, and Johnny Weir.
The only other ones that I'd expect people who aren't skating geeks to maybe recognize are John Curry (1976 Olympic champion) and Brian Orser (the other half of the Battle of the Brians.)
With one exception, everyone on the list is American, Canadian, or British. The one exception is Ondrej Nepala, and it seems like he never really spoke about being gay publicly, but Toller Cranston revealed it in his autobiography.