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" Hopefully, it gets to a point where, down the line, people don't have to come out. "
Gus Kenworthy
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" I realize how fortunate I am to have been able to make a life and career out of skiing. "
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" Competitors, even friends that would say things that were so homophobic, and - I don't think that they realized necessarily the impact that it was having on me, because I was in the closet, and I think that that's what made me really scared to come out. "
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