Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon opened up about the homophobic abuse he receives in a recent interview.
He talked about how someone yelled a slur at him when he was holding his boyfriend Jussi-Pekka Kajaala’s hand.
“I was walking in New York City and was holding my boyfriend’s hand,” Rippon said.
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“Some guy came up to us and said, ‘I hate faggots,’ then ran away. I just said, ‘That’s so sad that somebody would still want to do that.'”
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He also talked about the hateful messages and tweets he would get when he was at the Winter Olympics.
“When I was at the Olympics, and this shouldn’t be the case, but every time I got a tweet or a message that had an American flag in their name, I was always hesitant because it was almost always a nasty Trump supporter,” he continued.
“It was always something nasty and it was always something homophobic, but it doesn’t bother me because I’m very comfortable and very confident with who I am, and they’re not.”
