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How figure skating is developing beyond its heteronormative history
How figure skating is developing beyond its heteronormative history
A look at how figure skating is developing beyond its heteronormative history, featuring interviews with Paul Poirier and Kaitlyn Weaver.
olympic.ca
When Paul Poirier began competing on the senior international ice dance scene more than 15 years ago, there were no athletes who openly identified as 2SLGBTQI+ actively competing in figure skating.
As Poirier heads towards his fourth Olympic Games, he is among some of the biggest stars in the sport who have chosen to no longer hide a part of themselves while they compete for Olympic medals.
“In the space of visibility and representation, there’s been a lot of progress and change in that time,” Poirier recently reflected in an interview with Olympic.ca.
“For a very long time, I had a very large separation between my life, day to day as an athlete being at the rink, and the rest of my life. I personally had this wall up and kind of like two selves existed on very different planes.”
Since coming out in 2021, ”It’s changed my mentality day to day in terms of how I bring myself to the rink,” he said. “It might have been self imposed, but there was a pressure to maintain a
