“It was one thing that did set me free,” Glenn told NBC in an article posted Thursday. “I used to be in a position to really feel like I wasn’t being pressured into making an attempt to fill another person’s footwear.”
Glenn, 26, won her third straight U.S. title this month and is now poised to maybe turn out to be the primary American lady to win an Olympic medal within the particular person occasion since 2006. In accordance to Outsports, a web site that has tracked LGBTQ+ athletes since 1999, she’ll even be the primary out lady to determine skate at an Olympics.
In 2019 the Plano, Texas, native was quoted in a Dallas outlet supporting Timothy LeDuc, an brazenly out athlete who had gained a nationwide title in pairs, NBC famous. Glenn then disclosed publicly that she recognized as bisexual and pansexual. “I don’t wish to shove my sexuality in individuals’s faces, however I additionally don’t wish to cover who I’m,” she said on the time.
Phrase traveled a bit quicker than she anticipated.
“I believed, ‘OK, that is my little child step, and … barely anybody’s gonna see it.’ It was a neighborhood newspaper,” Glenn mentioned to the community. “Yeah, it didn’t keep native. The following day it was, like, worldwide information.”
There was a silver lining, although.
“I didn’t count on it to explode in the best way that it did,” she told ESPN earlier this month. “However I’m grateful as a result of they received my message on the market. I used to be in a position to symbolize lots of people which can be in skating, particularly queer ladies.”
