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- From: georgec@eng.umd.edu (George B. Clark)
- Subject: Re: Ice Figure Skating - A Competitive Sport For Gay Men
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.145819.20408@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 14:58:19 GMT
- Organization: University of Maryland
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- In article <1992Dec21.183600.19707@medtron.medtronic.com> ck10322@china.medtronic.com (Cameron Kaszas) writes:
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- >Well over 50% of the men in ice shows are gay - at least from
- >my experience as a straight male skater in both the "Ice Capades",
- >and "Celebration on Ice" (I was outnumbered 7-1 in "Celebration").
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- If this were true, then why do ice skaters involved in paired dance
- competition always occur as a man and a woman? You never see two
- men skating together in paired dance competition.
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- Also, I suspect that spending some quality time in the bedroom is a
- necessary prerequisite for paired skaters to dance well together. It
- ensures both their bodies and personalities are in synch, since their
- sport involves touching each other all day.
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- Why would a man who is gay choose a sport that required him to skate with
- an attractive woman several hours per day? In other words, I suspect there
- are fewer gays in paired dance competition than in other forms of ice figure
- skating.
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