There are 191 out gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and nonbinary athletes participating in the 2024 Paris Olympics – more than any other Olympic Games in history.
It’s official! The number of out LGBTQ athletes at the Paris Olympics is at least 191 – now an Olympics record! @athleteally @glaad #TeamLGBTQhttps://t.co/8ERf1Kjqah
— Outsports (@outsports) July 29, 2024
From Outsports:
Outsports has revised its tally from the original 144 out LGBTQ athletes we posted on July 17. In the last 12 days, we have gotten submissions from many readers and several journalists, which allowed us to verify 47 more out athletes and update the list.
The number, which is expected to grow, surpasses the 186 out athletes at the Tokyo Summer Olympics in 2021. And it is a nearly fourfold increase from the 53 in Rio in 2016 and eightfold from London in 2012.
The list is dominated by women by about a 9 to1 ratio, which is similar to Tokyo. However, it does include 20 out gay and bi men, which is a record. On this list are the first out male U.S. men’s track and field athlete, Nico Young, and the first out male judoka, Timo Cavelius, from Germany.
View the entire list of out athletes at the Paris Olympics here. Below – Nico Young and Timo Cavelius celebrate their qualifying for the Paris Games on their Instagram accounts. https://www.instagram.com/p/C8pq4bbSqeC/?img_index=4
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