Want to send a gay Olympian to Sochi?

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I find the dedication of Oylmpic athletes incredible!

This guy is really fighting an uphill battle to be competitive.

http://www.out.com/entertainment/sports/2013/08/26/blake-skjellerup-help-gay-speed-skater-sochi-olympics

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Johnny Weir explains why he is going to the Olympics. I take the quote from the blog Joe.My.God, which, in turn, took it from Reuters:

HomoQuotable - Johnny Weir

"I've come under so much hate and scrutiny from within my own LGBT community for my views on the Olympics. But as somebody who watched my parents sacrifice everything so that I had at least one chance of making the Olympics, I could never boycott the Olympics whether they be in Pyongyang (in North Korea), in Uganda, in Iran or Mars. I would have competed there because my whole life has been about going to the Olympics. Being gay isn't something that I chose, being gay is something I was born into. But being an Olympic athlete was something that I chose and something I worked hard for and I'll see it to any necessary end. The entire Olympic team is not made up of LGBT people. It's people who've sacrificed their livelihoods, it's people who've sacrificed their parents' finances and health and sometimes even marriages to get that one chance at glory. As an athlete who's lived it, I could never turn my face to that. While equality is necessary all over the world, the Olympics is not the place for me to make a stand."- Johnny Weir, speaking to Reuters.

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As to the original post about Blake, he has some hot pics online:

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Johnny Weir's statement is well thought out and nicely expressed. Too many times Gay Advocates think that everything has to center around being gay. That point of view is insulting to many gays as Weir so eloquently points out.