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A safe space: How figure skating became a comfort zone for the LGBTQ+ community amid perilous times
The Associated Press ^ | January 25, 2026 | BY DAVE SKRETTA

Posted on 01/25/2026 5:46:32 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Edited on 01/25/2026 6:07:09 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

The moment Amber Glenn stepped onto the ice at figure skating’s world championships, fans began to wave American flags, from the lowest rows inside TD Garden to the highest rafters, where the jerseys of Boston’s sporting greats hang in honor.


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1 posted on 01/25/2026 5:46:32 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Such BS. Trump doesn’t give a flip about gays or lesbians. Look at his cabinet. What fools to buy this lie.


2 posted on 01/25/2026 5:50:07 AM PST by arkfreepdom
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What is she going to do when men are competing in women’s figure skating? No way on earth are girls going to jump like a man.


3 posted on 01/25/2026 5:54:51 AM PST by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The U.S. Men’s Heterosexual Figure Skating Championship - SNL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1ZYTQToX9A


4 posted on 01/25/2026 5:59:08 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The media can sure get flowery when describing a person....... when they want to.


5 posted on 01/25/2026 6:01:47 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: dfwgator

Lol! That was hilarious!


6 posted on 01/25/2026 6:04:50 AM PST by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: ansel12

Very high percentage of them in media as opposed to human population. So the media builds them up and “indoctrinates” population to accept.

Unconscionable. The media is your enemy.


7 posted on 01/25/2026 6:05:28 AM PST by Racketeer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

These misfits have a “safe space” everywhere they turn. Nobody dares even look cross eyed at these freaks.


8 posted on 01/25/2026 6:07:06 AM PST by albie
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“...a comfort zone for the LGBTQ+ community amid perilous times...”

Perilous times? They got every thing they ever wanted.

1) Homosexual marriage
2) Queer courses in college
3) Transsexual grooming in elementary schools
4) Normalizing the degenerate homosexual agenda world wide.

Articles like this proves how the filthy LGBTQ degenerates never ever stop. Their ultimate goal is to legalize sex with children, any time, any where, in any way.


9 posted on 01/25/2026 6:15:51 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m not going bother to read the article but I’ll say this....ice skaters being gay may be THE worst kept secret in the history of sports....especially the men.

Back in the 80s a buddy of mine played hockey and also was a figure skater.....although it was roller and not ice, it looks like it doesn’t matter.

I traveled with him to a figure skating event in Louisville Kentucky in ‘82. That weekend I was exposed to more homosexuals than I ever had been in my short 22 years of life.

Whether ice or roller, skating is a subculture.....and it’s certainly has it’s share of homosexuals......always has.


10 posted on 01/25/2026 6:17:16 AM PST by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave)
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I was super impressed with Malcolm’s “Booty Scooch”


11 posted on 01/25/2026 6:19:36 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: Flavious_Maximus

I can still remember back in the late 80s/early 90s when the gay community said “we just want to be left alone to live our lives in peace”.

I knew then that was just to cack open the door to the real agenda which was to be a protected class....and lo and behold, here we’re are.


12 posted on 01/25/2026 6:21:15 AM PST by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s been said “comfort zone” for decades upon decades.


13 posted on 01/25/2026 6:22:57 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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“we just want to be left alone to live our lives in peace”.

The ‘love that dare not speak its name’ morphed into the ‘love that can’t keep its f’n mouth shut’.


14 posted on 01/25/2026 6:44:44 AM PST by Stosh
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I'm pretty sure that figure skating has been an LBGTQRSTUVQXYZ+ safe space for a very long time.


15 posted on 01/25/2026 6:46:10 AM PST by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Dick Button, a long ago neighbor was an Olympic skater (2 golds)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Button
Toward the end of of the wiki description is this:

Button suffered a serious head injury on July 5, 1978,[25] when he was one of several men assaulted in Central Park by a gang of youths armed with baseball bats.[26] Three persons were subsequently convicted of assault for the attacks. News accounts and trial testimony indicated the assailants were intending to target gay people, but the victims were attacked at random, and that because of the random nature of the attacks “... the police said there was no reason to believe the victims were homosexual.”[27]

The premise reason for the attack was bogus. I know for a fact that his daughter, Debbie, was well built. We were in the same grade when that was important.


16 posted on 01/25/2026 6:46:24 AM PST by sasquatch (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit! c/o piytar)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Slow news day for the sexually misoriented. ROTFL!


17 posted on 01/25/2026 6:47:17 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Cheech Frey and his sidekick, Timmy Chong have turned Minniesomalia into a Cheech & Chong movie.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Honestly, I hope a few trannies enter the ice skating competition - men can - and will - do the dreaded quad jump that is very very difficult for women to do - and start taking these competition.

Ditto for tennis, also needs a good transfusion of men pretending to be women in the women’s division.


18 posted on 01/25/2026 6:49:06 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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Perilous times? What bullsh*t. What’s perilous?

That citizens object to the sexual mutilation of children?

Let’s give this stupid drama stuff a rest. Yes, gays were victims in ‘68 - over 50 years ago. But today? The term out of control ‘bullies’ fits better.


19 posted on 01/25/2026 7:04:02 AM PST by GOPJ (Trump's a Rorschach: for good or ill people see thier hidden selves in him. Protector? Bully? Savior)
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Perilous times? What perilous times?!
20 posted on 01/25/2026 7:04:09 AM PST by Rummyfan (Ok In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support lthe civilized man.👨 so t tv)
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