Figure skating diva Johnny Weir wowed the audience at the annual Stars, Stripes and Skates benefit in Danbury, Conn., over the weekend, skating publicly to his new 2010 Olympic short program for the first time ever. From the Danbury News-Times:
“I always feel prepared for an event,” Weir, 25, said describing his thoughts on competing in [...]
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Johnny Weir wows at 9/11 skate benefit
Weekend hot jock: Skater Jeremy Abbott
With figure skating season about to start, many eyes are on the big names of Johnny Weir and Evan Lysacek. But Jeremy Abbott holds potentially as much promise for the Americans. He’s the defending U.S. Champion and last year won the Grand Prix Final (he finished 11th at the World Championships, which Lysacek won). The [...]
Johnny Weir talks about sexuality
When Johnny Weir’s manager called me a couple weeks ago to see how we could work together, the first thing that popped into my mind is: don’t ask him, “Are you gay?” I’ve written several times in the past that I think Johnny (right, with his mom) has already answered that question and it isn’t [...]
Johnny Weir: The Outsports interview, part 1
I was honored to talk earlier this week with Olympic figure skater Johnny Weir. I was a fan of him before, and that interest grew exponentially after talking with him for a half hour. Some divas are phonies, projecting an image that is not themselves; Johnny is always Johnny, and I love that.
We’re running the [...]
Brian Boitano hosts the gayest show on TV
In one of the stranger TV pairings I can remember, former figure skater Brian Boitano will host a coooking show (called What Would Brian Boitano Make?) on The Food Network premiering later this month. Afterelton’s Michael Jensen tried to talk to Boitano after receiving press materials and again at the TV Critics Tour. Both times, [...]
‘Pop Star On Ice’ a June 11 must-see in NYC
For those of you in New York City tomorrow night (June 11), do yourself a favor and go to NewFest’s closing night film, Pop Star On Ice. It’s a documentary about Johnny Weir and it goes way behind the scenes of one of the most flamboyant characters in sports today. The film runs a range [...]
NewFest starts this weekend with sports films
If you’re going to be in New York City over the next week, be sure to check out some of the gay-sports films showing at NewFest:
Off And Running, June 6: Adopted children often face the dilemma of how much of their parents’ identities they can or should take on as their own. For Avery, [...]
Elvis Stojko: I don’t hate gays
Former Canadian and Olympic skating star Elvis Stojko says he does not hate gays and blamed this perception on what he said was bad editing in a TV piece on efforts by Skate Canada to butch up the sport. Stojko made his case in a Toronto Star column.
“There’s been such a backlash,” a stunned Stojko [...]
Johnny Weir is Pop Star On Ice
An upcoming behind-the-scenes documentary of the life of Johnny Weir is making its world premier at the Seattle International Film Festival on May 24. The film is called Pop Star On Ice, and there’s no word if it will talk about Johnny being a gay man on ice:
Johnny’s complicated relationship with his longtime coach Priscilla [...]
Weekend hot jock: Skater Jeffrey Buttle
With the retelling this week of the anti-effeminate movement in figure skating, we figured we’d highlight one of the real cuties from the last few years of figure skating: Jeffrey Buttle. The Canadian skater was the 2006 Olympic bronze medalist and the 2008 World Champion. Before he focused on skating, he was studying chemical engineering [...]
ABC News tackles ‘macho’ figure skating
ABC World News tonight is talking about the efforts by Skate Canada to make the sport of figure skating more tough, macho and masculine. Producer Eloise Harper talked to me for the segment; It’s on tonight if you catch it. I mentioned to a couple friends this week that they had wanted to talk to [...]
Video: Johnny Weir skates to ‘Poker Face’
At a skating exhibition in South Korea, U.S. skater Johnny Weir skates to Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face.” Weir is never dull and is a terrific athlete (and the crowd loved every second of it). This is the gayest thing I’ve seen in sports since Terrell Owens shook his pom-poms.
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Can Canada make figure skating tough?
Figure skating has long been the butt of gay jokes. An organization in Canada is now saying it’s likely one of the reasons that young male skaters in Canada have turned more and more to hockey instead of figure skating; Few boys want to be the targets of gay jokes. From the CBC now comes [...]
‘Sparkly boy’ Johnny Weir flops at nationals
Johnny Weir, my favorite ice skater as much for his who-gives-a-damn personality as his skating talent, will not be going to the world figure skating championships after finishing fifth at this weekend’s nationals. Weir has been at worlds every year since 2003.
Weir blamed the flu he been fighting for a month for his lackluster performance [...]
The dangerous sport of figure skating
And some people think you have to be a pansy to figure skate. No wonder so many of those guys have buns of steel . . .
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