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Guillaume Cizeron has publicly come out as gay. The skater, who won the silver medal in ice dancing at the 2018 Winter Olympics with Gabriella Papadakis, spoke about his sexuality for the first time in an interview with French-language LGBTQ+ publication Tetu. His conversation with the magazine arrives a week after an Instagram photo with his boyfriend, which he captioned: “Celebrate love. Happy International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia.” “It was quite funny how people reacted to this photo. I would not consider myself in the closet before posting…

A married gay couple are protesting Poland’s “LGBT-free zones” with rainbow face masks. This month alone, Dawid Mycek and Jakub Kwiecinski have distributed over 300 masks on the streets of Gdansk to protect citizens from the coronavirus pandemic and to raise awareness for LGBTQ+ rights in the country. Kwiecinski said he and his husband, who married in Portugal, have received an overwhelmingly positive reaction for their activism, but have also been subjected to homophobic abuse for promoting a “homosexual plague.” “We thought that if we are dealing right now with…