It’s sports week on the blog! First up, In Jim Buzinski’s Outsports article, Top 7 LGBTQ moments of the Tokyo Olympics, we get some great statistics, and moments, including:

“A record 182 out LGBTQ athletes in Tokyo” – and the list growing 50% once the original listing was posted, with athletes reaching out to be included!

Tom Daley’s two Olympic medals and using the moment to speak out and up, saying, “I feel incredibly proud to say I am a gay man and also an Olympic champion. I feel very empowered by that. When I was younger I thought I was never going to be anything or achieve anything because of who I was. To be an Olympic champion now shows that you can achieve anything.”

Raven Saunders putting her arms in an X on the medal stand to represent “the intersection of where all people who are oppressed meet.”

Quinn (who is trans nonbinary) helping Canada win its first gold medal in women’s soccer.

And the tally that, despite the out Queer athletes repping less than 2% of Olympic competitors, if they were all on the same team – Team LGBTQ – they would have “ranked 7th overall, just ahead of Netherlands, France, Germany and Italy.”

Inspiring! Read the full article here.

The light in me recognizes and acknowledges the light in you,
Lee

P.S. – watch the bonus (non-Queer, but still awesome) moment of two friends, competing athletes in the high jump, choosing to share the Gold medal when they tied rather than continue to jump it off. It’s the true spirit of the Olympics, well worth celebrating as well. Grateful to Jim for including it at the end of the Outsports piece.