Glenn's triple axel helps lead her to the top of the women's event as Ilia Malinin finishes the day in front of the men's field.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/6213882

Amber Glenn becomes first LGBTQ+ woman to win U.S. Women’s Figure Skating Championship

“Being the first openly queer women’s champion is incredible,” Glenn said. “When I came out originally, I was terrified and I was scared it would affect my scores or something, but I didn’t care. It was worth it to see, over the last couple of years, the amount of young people that feel more comfortable in their environments at the rink.”

    • RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      304·
      5 months ago

      This kind of journalism makes it out to be that LGBTQ+ persons are a monolith, and as if there aren’t literally many different types of people in that group.

      Just say Bi. Or don’t consider it at all because sexuality has nothing to do with sports performance.

      Though, I do understand that she is rightfully proud of her LGBTQ+ inclusion and can help inspire others.

    • FlumPHP@programming.devEnglish
      11·
      5 months ago

      Well, you should have taken 16 seconds. Because two words later it says that she also identifies as pansexual. And in the article quoted, she refers to herself as queer. So BQ+

      Are you really arguing that “Amber Glenn becomes first Bisexual, Pansexual, and Queer woman to win U.S. Women’s Figure Skating Championship” would have been a better headline?

  • Deceptichum@kbin.social
    221·
    5 months ago

    was scared it would affect my scores or something

    Is women’s figure skating a traditionally conservative sport?

    • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      261·
      5 months ago

      It’s one of the typical “force your kids to focus their entire lives on X and ruin their bodies for it”-“competitions”, just evolved into the teenage-youngadult tail end of that. So it’s at least very traditional, I would assume that also means it’s massively conservative in the US.