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Here’s a quick and handy guide on how to watch all the events (Peacock!), and below is a list of gay women Olympians and where to follow them throughout the Games. The 2022 Winter Olympics kicked off its razzlin’, dazzlin’, flipplin’, slidin’ 16-day event with a fireworks-heavy opening ceremony this morning in Beijing, and if you’re anything like us, you’re cheering for Team Gay, just like we did in this year’s Summmer Olympics! There are fewer participants overall in the Winter Olympics - because there’s only a third as many events in the Winter Games - which means there aren’t quite as many openly LGBTQ+ athletes to cheer for, but there’s still more than ever! When I first started writing about the Olympics back in the early aughts, the only gays were basically a handful Dutch speedskaters now there’s seven openly gay players on Canada’s women’s hockey team alone!
In the House of Commons on Thursday, the New Democratic Party caucus was decked out in rainbow-coloured silk scarves and pocket squares.
“It will fly until the end of the Winter Olympics,” said a city spokesman. When he heard the news out of Montreal on Thursday morning, Watson ordered the pride flag raised immediately at city hall. Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson got the jump on both of his counterparts in eastern Canada, though. Over a million of you have already worn the laces in support of LGBTQ+. This gesture is a symbol of the fraternity and solidarity of Montrealers,” Coderre said in a statement Thursday. Our iconic Rainbow Laces have become a symbol of inclusion across sport and fitness. “As an Olympic city, and as a large, inclusive metropolis, Montreal is concerned about the rights of members of the LGBT community around the world. Montreal will do the same, unfurling its rainbow colours from a 45-degree flagpole directly above the main entrance to city hall. John’s city council kicked off the trend with a unanimous decision to raise the pride flag Friday - the same time as the opening ceremony of the 22nd Winter Olympics. Vancouver, host of the 2010 Winter Games, has been the most vocal critic of Russian laws against homosexual “propaganda.” The city has dispatched Deputy Mayor Tim Stevenson to Sochi to lobby for greater awareness of gay and lesbian issues, including the mandatory inclusion of a “Pride House” at each Olympics.Īlong with Whistler, the mountain co-host for the 2010 Games, Vancouver will fly the pride flag in front of city hall for the duration of the sporting event. Neither is Winnipeg, Edmonton or Toronto, where there is an online petition with 3,000 signatures to light up the CN Tower in rainbow colours. “I’m confirming that the mast of the Olympic Stadium will be illuminated in rainbow colours (Friday) night in solidarity with the LGBT community,” wrote Quebec Tourism Minister Pascal Bérubé on Twitter Thursday.Ĭalgary, which hosted the 1988 Winter Games, isn’t planning any show of protest. The Quebec government is also planning to make a statement by flying the pride flag at Montreal’s Olympic Stadium, the site of the 1976 summer games. John’s, among other cities, have decided to fly the iconic gay pride flag at for the duration of the Olympic Games in solidarity with Russia’s gay and lesbian communities.
MONTREAL-A flutter of rainbow-coloured Olympic protest is rising up in rebuke of Russia’s anti-gay laws ahead of Friday’s opening ceremonies in Sochi.