www.nbcolympics.com
This is why I love Heath Thorpe. He is out and proud as a gay man and is unapologetic when it comes to how he presents his gymnastics. There are several gay and non-binary NCAA gymnasts that also present their gymnastics the way that they want to rather than stereotyped presentation.
Here in Europe there is a strong hope that they’ll be :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:
I mean that makes logical sense, if you look at what this people (men and women) are doing, it really is very tough and “strong”, even if you look like omelianchik while doing it. What I really don’t understand from my Spanish perspective is that they’d revere figure skating so much, I remember pluschenko in Sochi being a total bro (and being watched and applauded by Putin at the time) while at the same time, by western european standards, also basically being a makeup-light drag queen on ice. I don’t understand the argument for masculinity in this context, or rather, i don’t know what’s meant by masculinity.
I must say, my experience of the states is that it tends to be more prudish in these things than other Western countries, or at least Europe. I would say, what you say generally applies to people here as well but maybe not so extreme as you paint it there (and for example men from turkish descent, or well some at least, greet each other by kissing on the lips, which is very shocking even to me as a Spaniard -we’re very easy with the kissing-).
