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Johnny Weir Says Being Gay Was Never A Secret

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Johnny Weir made a huge impact with his costumes and comments during the 2018 Winter Olympics. He confirmed he was gay in his 2011 memoir, Welcome to My World. Some criticized him for not coming out during his ice skating competition days.

He responded on Twitter in 2018, “I wear my sexuality the same as I wear my sex or my skin color. It is something that simply is and something I was born into. I never ‘came out’ in sport because I didn’t imagine it as a great secret & it had nothing to do with my skating or my dreams.”