This 2024 Olympics database includes profiles of the out gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and nonbinary Olympians. The 2024 Paris Games mark a significant increase in LGBTQ representation, highlighting the progress towards inclusivity and acceptance in the sports world. There are also a record number of out male Olympic athletes.

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Our interactive list allows you to filter by country, sport and competition category, making it easy to find and learn more about each athlete. Whether you’re looking for athletes from your home country or interested in a specific sport, our database is designed to help you connect with and support these trailblazing individuals. Note: Equestrian and sailing are nongender events, so those athletes can be found under that competition category.

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This list was compiled by Cyd Zeigler, Jim Buzinski, Karleigh Webb and Jon Holmes of Outsports and LGBT historian Tony Scupham-Bilton. Photo illustration by Ryan Lawrence with images from Getty Images and USA Today. Read how Outsports compiled the list of out LGBTQ Olympians and other facts about Team LGBTQ.

LGBTQ Athletes (199)

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🇦🇺 Australia

Natalya Diehm

Cycling

Cycling

Natalya Diehm's Instagram account

Gay American Perris Benegas seals BMX silver medal with her girlfriend’s kiss, as Hannah Roberts crashes out

Hannah Roberts on top of BMX Freestyle looking for gold at Paris Summer Olympics

🇦🇹 Austria

Lara Vadlau

Sailing

Sailing

This out LGBTQ athlete just won their country’s first gold medal at the Paris Olympics

🇧🇷 Brazil

Ana Patricia

Beach Volleyball

Beach Volleyball

Ana Patricia's Instagram account

Ana Patricia bags gold for Brazil in Olympics beach volleyball, with girlfriend courtside

Rafaela Silva

Judo

Judo

Rafaela Silva's Instagram account

Gold, bronze medals for gay judo athletes in epic Olympic mixed team finals

Adriana

Soccer

Soccer

Adriana's Instagram account

Rapinoe sends message to Marta after seeing USWNT shut out Brazil for fifth Olympic gold

Marta

Soccer

Soccer

Marta's Instagram account

LGBTQ soccer power couple Marta, Carrie Lawrence announce engagement

Rapinoe sends message to Marta after seeing USWNT shut out Brazil for fifth Olympic gold

Brazil hopes to win Marta a gold-medal soccer sendoff against the USA

Tarciane

Soccer

Soccer

Tarciane's Instagram account

Rapinoe sends message to Marta after seeing USWNT shut out Brazil for fifth Olympic gold

Lorena

Soccer

Soccer

Lorena's Instagram account

Rapinoe sends message to Marta after seeing USWNT shut out Brazil for fifth Olympic gold

Lauren Leal

Soccer

Soccer

Lauren Leal's Instagram account

Rapinoe sends message to Marta after seeing USWNT shut out Brazil for fifth Olympic gold

🇨🇦 Canada

Olivia Apps

Rugby

Rugby

Olivia Apps's Instagram account

Team LGBTQ finishes in 7th place in the Paris Olympics total medal count, with by far their most-ever medals

Sophie de Goede

Rugby

Rugby

Team LGBTQ finishes in 7th place in the Paris Olympics total medal count, with by far their most-ever medals

Maddy Grant

Rugby

Rugby

Team LGBTQ finishes in 7th place in the Paris Olympics total medal count, with by far their most-ever medals

🇩🇰 Denmark

Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour

Equestrian

Equestrian

Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour's Instagram account

Frederic Wandres one of three gay riders to deliver trifecta of Olympic dressage medals

Olympian Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour married her wife, and they captured the day beautifully

🇫🇷 France

Amandine Buchard

Judo

Judo

Amandine Buchard's Instagram account

A third of all out LGBTQ athletes at the Paris Olympics won a medal

Team LGBTQ finishes in 7th place in the Paris Olympics total medal count, with by far their most-ever medals

Gold, bronze medals for gay judo athletes in epic Olympic mixed team finals

First out gay Olympian to win medal in Paris cries in her moment of triumph

🇩🇪 Germany

Svenja Brunckhorst

3x3 Basketball

3x3 Basketball

Team LGBTQ finishes in 7th place in the Paris Olympics total medal count, with by far their most-ever medals

Frederic Wandres

Equestrian

Equestrian

Frederic Wandres's Instagram account

Frederic Wandres one of three gay riders to deliver trifecta of Olympic dressage medals

Tabea Schendekehl

Rowing

Rowing

Tabea Schendekehl's Instagram account

German rower one of the first out pansexual athletes to win an Olympic medal

Out rower overcomes depression and a wait to compete for Germany in the Olympics

Lea Schuller

Soccer

Soccer

Lea Schuller's Instagram account

Brilliant Berger and love-split Schüller help Germany to Olympics soccer bronze against Spain

Sara Doorsoun

Soccer

Soccer

Sara Doorsoun's Instagram account

Brilliant Berger and love-split Schüller help Germany to Olympics soccer bronze against Spain

Ann-Katrin Berger

Soccer

Soccer

Ann-Katrin Berger's Instagram account

Brilliant Berger and love-split Schüller help Germany to Olympics soccer bronze against Spain

Felicitas Rauch

Soccer

Soccer

Felicitas Rauch's Instagram account

Brilliant Berger and love-split Schüller help Germany to Olympics soccer bronze against Spain

🇬🇧 Great Britain

Tom Daley

Diving

Diving

Tom Daley's Instagram account

Tom Daley retires from diving, chokes up in tear-filled interview

Team LGBTQ finishes in 7th place in the Paris Olympics total medal count, with by far their most-ever medals

Tom Daley and Team GB divers make jaws drop with Speedo dance to Charli xcx

Family pride at ‘gayest Games’ gives Tom Daley his perfect Paris Olympics moment

Carl Hester

Equestrian

Equestrian

Carl Hester's Instagram account

Frederic Wandres one of three gay riders to deliver trifecta of Olympic dressage medals

‘We’ve got to put the horses first’: Gay equestrian rider Carl Hester addresses animal cruelty allegations against former partner

Meet the out LGBTQ Team GB athletes competing in Paris

Carl Hester’s first Summer Olympics was 1992. Now he’s competing in Paris 32 years later.

🇮🇪 Ireland

Kellie Harrington

Boxing

Boxing

Kellie Harrington's Instagram account

Team LGBTQ finishes in 7th place in the Paris Olympics total medal count, with by far their most-ever medals

Kellie Harrington is Ireland’s Olympic boxing queen again, now ready for quiet life with wife Mandy

Kellie Harrington, now married to her wife, will box for Ireland at the Paris Summer Olympics

Boxer Kellie Harrington an out Irish Olympic hero with gold medal win

🇮🇱 Israel

Raz Hershko

Judo

Judo

Team LGBTQ adds another Olympic judo medal with Raz Hershko’s silver

🇮🇹 Italy

Alice Bellandi

Judo

Judo

Alice Bellandi's Instagram account

Team LGBTQ finishes in 7th place in the Paris Olympics total medal count, with by far their most-ever medals

Gay Olympic judo athlete wins gold and celebrates by kissing her girlfriend

Italian judoka Alice Bellandi rolls into the Paris Olympics with renewed strength

Paola Egonu

Volleyball

Volleyball

Paola Egonu's Instagram account

Paola Egonu, pride of Italy and proudly pansexual, powers team to Olympic volleyball gold

🇳🇱 Netherlands

Marianne Vos

Cycling

Cycling

Marianne Vos's Instagram account

Out athlete Marianne Vos won an Olympic medal in stunning fashion, 12 years after her last medal

Marleen Jochems

Field Hockey

Field Hockey

Marleen Jochems's Instagram account

Out gay goalie, with Pride flag on helmet, delivers Dutch gold in Olympic field hockey final

Anne Veenendaal

Field Hockey

Field Hockey

Anne Veenendaal's Instagram account

Out gay goalie, with Pride flag on helmet, delivers Dutch gold in Olympic field hockey final

🇳🇿 New Zealand

Emma Twigg

Rowing

Rowing

Emma Twigg's Instagram account

Emma Twigg ends epic Olympic rowing career with silver, watched by wife and son in Paris

Olympics Team LGBTQ: Robbie Manson and Emma Twigg through in rowing but gymnast Arthur Nory out

Out rower Emma Twigg will compete in her fifth Olympic Games, her sights set on back-to-back gold

Emma Twigg finally wins gold in her 4th Olympics, sets an Olympic record

Portia Woodman-Wickliffe

Rugby

Rugby

Portia Woodman-Wickliffe's Instagram account

Team LGBTQ finishes in 7th place in the Paris Olympics total medal count, with by far their most-ever medals

Out rugby superstar Portia Woodman-Wickliffe goes out in a golden moment

Why this out star athlete is poised to dominate women’s Olympic rugby

🟧 Refugee Olympic Team

Cindy Ngamba

Boxing

Boxing

Cindy Ngamba's Instagram account

Gay refugee team boxer Cindy Ngamba claims historic Olympic bronze medal

Gay boxer Cindy Ngamba clinches historic first medal for Refugee Olympic Team

Gay boxer Cindy Ngamba, who would risk jail if she went back to homeland, wins on Olympic debut

Tom Daley among five flagbearers at Olympics Opening Ceremony who are LGBTQ and out

🇪🇸 Spain

Maria Perez

Track and Field (Athletics)

Track and Field (Athletics)

A third of all out LGBTQ athletes at the Paris Olympics won a medal

Team LGBTQ finishes in 7th place in the Paris Olympics total medal count, with by far their most-ever medals

Maria Perez, out and proud gay athlete, walks to Olympic silver medal in Paris

Paula Camus

Water Polo

Water Polo

Team LGBTQ finishes in 7th place in the Paris Olympics total medal count, with by far their most-ever medals

🇺🇸 United States

Breanna Stewart

Basketball

Basketball

Breanna Stewart's Instagram account

Gay WNBA star Breanna Stewart steps in it with a Puma Harry Potter kicks collab

Over half of USA Olympic women’s basketball team is LGBTQ in gold medal match in Paris

Meet the out LGBTQ Team USA athletes competing in Paris

Diana Taurasi

Basketball

Basketball

Diana Taurasi's Instagram account

Over half of USA Olympic women’s basketball team is LGBTQ in gold medal match in Paris

Meet the out LGBTQ Team USA athletes competing in Paris

Historic highs, a birth and a berth mark a crowning weekend for Diana Taurasi

Alyssa Thomas

Basketball

Basketball

Alyssa Thomas's Instagram account

Over half of USA Olympic women’s basketball team is LGBTQ in gold medal match in Paris

Meet the out LGBTQ Team USA athletes competing in Paris

Connecticut Sun teammates Alyssa Thomas and DeWanna Bonner are getting married

Brittney Griner

Basketball

Basketball

Brittney Griner's Instagram account

Over half of USA Olympic women’s basketball team is LGBTQ in gold medal match in Paris

Brittney Griner and wife Cherelle welcome a new baby boy days ahead of the Olympics

Meet the out LGBTQ Team USA athletes competing in Paris

Donald Trump says Brittney Griner being freed from Russian prison ‘not the greatest trade’

Jewell Loyd

Basketball

Basketball

Jewell Loyd's Instagram account

Over half of USA Olympic women’s basketball team is LGBTQ in gold medal match in Paris

Meet the out LGBTQ Team USA athletes competing in Paris

Team USA’s Jewell Loyd is out to prove her ‘Gold Mamba’ moniker correct again at Paris Olympics

Chelsea Gray

Basketball

Basketball

Chelsea Gray's Instagram account

Over half of USA Olympic women’s basketball team is LGBTQ in gold medal match in Paris

Meet the out LGBTQ Team USA athletes competing in Paris

Kahleah Copper

Basketball

Basketball

Kahleah Copper's Instagram account

Kahleah Copper saves USA basketball in Olympics gold medal fourth quarter

Over half of USA Olympic women’s basketball team is LGBTQ in gold medal match in Paris

Evy Leibfarth

Canoeing

Canoeing

Evy Leibfarth's Instagram account

Queer athlete Evy Leibfarth’s first Olympic medal was unexpected — and she’s not done in Paris

Meet the out LGBTQ Team USA athletes competing in Paris

Evy Leibfarth is set to tackle a historic trio of canoe and kayak events for Team USA

Bisexual paddler Evy Leibfarth hopes to inspire LGBTQ athletes at Paris Olympics

Perris Benegas

Cycling

Cycling

Perris Benegas's Instagram account

Gay American Perris Benegas seals BMX silver medal with her girlfriend’s kiss, as Hannah Roberts crashes out

Meet the out LGBTQ Team USA athletes competing in Paris

Hannah Roberts on top of BMX Freestyle looking for gold at Paris Summer Olympics

Lauren Scruggs

Fencing

Fencing

Lauren Scruggs's Instagram account

A third of all out LGBTQ athletes at the Paris Olympics won a medal

Team LGBTQ finishes in 7th place in the Paris Olympics total medal count, with by far their most-ever medals

LGBTQ fencer Lauren Scruggs wins Olympic gold, silver and a hug from Snoop Dogg

In first-ever all-USA final, out athlete Lauren Scruggs wins improbable silver medal

Lauren Doyle

Rugby

Rugby

Lauren Doyle's Instagram account

Team LGBTQ finishes in 7th place in the Paris Olympics total medal count, with by far their most-ever medals

USA women’s rugby team, with 6 out gay players, wins first Olympic medal on shocking final play

Meet the out LGBTQ Team USA athletes competing in Paris

Lauren Doyle co-captains USA Rugby at Paris Olympics in her third quest for a medal

Steph Rovetti

Rugby

Rugby

Steph Rovetti's Instagram account

Team LGBTQ finishes in 7th place in the Paris Olympics total medal count, with by far their most-ever medals

USA women’s rugby team, with 6 out gay players, wins first Olympic medal on shocking final play

Mormon and gay: Team USA rugby player Steph Rovetti excited to be out Olympian

Meet the out LGBTQ Team USA athletes competing in Paris

Alev Kelter

Rugby

Rugby

Alev Kelter's Instagram account

Team LGBTQ finishes in 7th place in the Paris Olympics total medal count, with by far their most-ever medals

Gay rugby player Alev Kelter proposes to girlfriend after winning Olympic bronze

USA women’s rugby team, with 6 out gay players, wins first Olympic medal on shocking final play

Meet the out LGBTQ Team USA athletes competing in Paris

Nicole Heavirland

Rugby

Rugby

Nicole Heavirland's Instagram account

USA women’s rugby team, with 6 out gay players, wins first Olympic medal on shocking final play

Meet the out LGBTQ Team USA athletes competing in Paris

Kris Thomas

Rugby

Rugby

Kris Thomas's Instagram account

USA women’s rugby team, with 6 out gay players, wins first Olympic medal on shocking final play

Meet the out LGBTQ Team USA athletes competing in Paris

Kristi Kirshe

Rugby

Rugby

Team LGBTQ finishes in 7th place in the Paris Olympics total medal count, with by far their most-ever medals

USA women’s rugby team, with 6 out gay players, wins first Olympic medal on shocking final play

Tierna Davidson

Soccer

Soccer

Tierna Davidson's Instagram account

Rapinoe sends message to Marta after seeing USWNT shut out Brazil for fifth Olympic gold

What happened to all the out gay soccer players on the USWNT at the Olympics?

Meet the out LGBTQ Team USA athletes competing in Paris

Sha’Carri Richardson

Track and Field (Athletics)

Track and Field (Athletics)

Sha’Carri Richardson's Instagram account

Diamond League Final flop for one of Team LGBTQ’s headline acts at Paris Olympics

A third of all out LGBTQ athletes at the Paris Olympics won a medal

Sha’Carri Richardson explodes down the stretch to win Olympic gold for USA women’s relay team

Sha’Carri Richardson wins silver in her long-awaited Olympics debut

Haleigh Washington

Volleyball

Volleyball

Haleigh Washington's Instagram account

Bro hugs and bromances are some of the cool things at the Summer Olympics

Meet the out LGBTQ Team USA athletes competing in Paris

Haleigh Washington helped win Team USA’s first women’s volleyball gold at the last Olympics. Now she wants another.

Bi Pride Day salute to Olympic volleyball champ Haleigh Washington