Gus Kenworthy Opens Up About Being in the Closet While Accepting Point Leadership Award

Gus Kenworthy, the openly gay Olympic skier, has talked about his experience growing up in the closet while accepting the Point Leadership Award, reports the Huffington Post.

Kenworthy talked about a range of issues in his speech, including Trump’s terrible LGBT+ record, and what it was like to be in the closet while performing at the Winter Olympics in Russia.

“I wish that I had been comfortable enough in my own skin to acknowledge who I was and to share that person with the world. But it took me many years to get to that point,” he said.

“The adolescent years of a queer person’s life are not easy. They involve a great deal of stress and anxiety. We often face ridicule and we fear torment.

“The person on stage in Russia bowing their head to have a medal put around their neck was me, sure, but it wasn’t the real me. I remember just not even being able to feel the gravity of that moment because I was so distracted trying to keep up a façade, trying to continue to make the world believe that I was someone that I just was not.”

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