Outsports called it 'the gay sports moment of 2018.'īusiness Insider spoke to Kenworthy about how he finds the balance in his career, from starring in the upcoming season of ' American Horror Story,' to cycling 545 miles to raise nearly a quarter million dollars for AIDS research at the AIDS/LifeCycle bike ride. By the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Kenworthy had not only come out, but shared a kiss on live television with his boyfriend, actor Matt Wilkas, a first for the Olympics and its American broadcaster, NBC. Kenworthy has become something of a role model at the intersection of sports and LGBT advocacy. Now, he balances skiing, a budding acting career, and LGBTQ advocacy. So, in an interview for ESPN The Magazine, he decided to be himself and come out of the closet. The then-24-year-old was sick of hiding who he really was, and even though he had just won a silver medal at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, he was more miserable than ever.
When American freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy publicly came out as gay in 2015, he helped change the landscape of sports.
