10 athletes who have earned our thanks… & thirst!
once famously said: “You can’t win a championship without gays!”With that in mind, we are thankful for a litany of LGBTQ+ athletes.
But for the purposes of this article, we narrowed our list to 10. Some of the athletes below double as political activists, while others always leave us parched.
We are equally grateful for everybody’s contributions!On this Thanksgiving, click ahead to see the 10 athletes who are receiving special shoutouts at our table…View Full PostHeath ThorpeA post shared by Heath Thorpe (@heaththorpe)A Queerty fav, this Australian gymnast earned multiple honors on the mat this year, including the country’s All-Around Championship title.
But yet he curiously wasn’t selected for the World Championships, prompting him to appeal his non-selection. Though Thorpe’s appeal was denied, he wound up at the World Championships, anyway, working as a journalist.
