Gus Kenworthy is set to appear on the cover of Attitude’s March 2016 cover, accompanied by what we can only assume will be a steamy photo spread.
Related: Gus Kenworthy Discusses First Sexual Experiences, How He Realized He Was Into Guys
The 24-year-old champion skier has had a lot to say since coming out in October of last year, and a lot of skin to show in turn.
Here’s a preview of some of the topics broached in his upcoming Attitude interview:
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On why he chose to come out he says: “I realised if I did hold on to the secret until my ski career was done it just validated that there was some shame. I didn’t want to be ashamed, I wanted to be proud and an advocate. When I told my family and friends, I felt so much more liberated and better about myself and my life.”
Talking about his first gay experience, he tells Attitude: “I made the first move and it was reciprocated, and he had never, ever kissed a guy like that, so it was very much a new experience for both of us and it started a pretty long relationship.”
Gus also speaks openly how he believes Russia was “an unfit hosting country” for the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014: “There was an attempted Pride parade in St Petersburg, and it ended up with gay guys being stoned. People, women and children, were throwing stones and it’s so horrible, ridiculous and medieval that you realise ‘I don’t want to be in this country’.”
The March issue of Attitude is out digitally now and in print in shops on 3rd February. Here’s another pic from the photo shoot.
Daniel Salmeron
Who cares
Markajv
PLEASE!!! Stop making this douche a pillar for the Gay Community. It’s embarrassing.
Jimmy Nolen Araujo
Oh how groundbreaking
spacecadet
I love it when some dummy posts “who cares”. Obviously you cared enough to click on the article and submit you’re oh so intelligent commentary.
And like it or not, this guy is athletically talented and serves as an openly gay role model for other LGBT in the world.
HollyScorpio
Enough with this guy already. Millions of people have come out and they did it because it was the right thing for them to do.
Gus’s coming out screams of millennial desperation and the need to be famous.
laurent7465
Thank you, Spacecadet. Well said! 🙂
Markajv: Please show us your credentials that qualify YOU as a pillar for our Gay Community?
Daniel Salmeron: You seem to care VERY much. Care to share your wisdom wisdom with the rest of us?
laurent7465
“Bitter Queens,your Banquet Room is ready.” “Bitter Queens, your Banquet Room is ready”
Miguel-Angel Maldonado
At this point Kentworthy is sleeping with one of the writers to get attention.
enlightenone
@spacecadet: “…serves as an openly gay role model for other LGBT in the world.”
Didn’t know YOU anointed him an “openly gay role model!” Being IN THE CLOSET for 23 years and 8 mos isn’t an “openly gay role model.” “Open” is a gay person who was never in a self-imposed closet out of fear and “SHAME.” An openly gay role model is afraid at times but refuses to hide = courage, confidence, and integrity: Baynard Rustin, Harvey Milk, Matthew Mitcham: ‘Platform king’ to ‘queen of the world …, MYSELF, just to name a few. An egotist and narcissist isn’t a “role-model” for no one!
Captain Obvious
@Markajv: He’s got the generic look that all the elder gays crave so they’re ready to propel him to the top of the heap till a new one takes his place.
It is what it is. They’ve been doing it forever. It’s literally how Hollywood started. He’s just exploiting what was already there and being exploited himself in the process. He doesn’t seem remotely above getting on his knees to hit that next level on this imaginary ladder to “fame”.
Straight people don’t seem even a little impressed by his gay Kardashian status if that New Years “debut” was any indication of how irrelevant he is outside of the elder gay community. He’ll run out of 50-60 year old pork to suck eventually.
Brian
We are so over you, Mr Kenworthy.
Xzamilio
@laurent7465: Oooh, my reservation is ready. Let me call all my bitter homies!!!
Brian
Isn’t it hilarious how these pathetic rags like Attitude run headlines like “Why We Love Gus Kenworthy”. Who is “we”? Is it the staff at Attitude? Is it supposed to mean the wider “gay community”, the wider public? LOL. It’s paternalistic and patronizing in my view.
Message to Attitude magazine: no, we don’t all like Gus Kenworthy. In fact, some of us are getting thoroughly sick of him.
Markajv
@laurent7465: never said I was a Pillar of the Gay Community. WTF are you even being so dickish? OH a GUS fan. well have at it hoss.
Markajv
@Captain Obvious: Ummmmm What age are you talking Elder because my friends run anywhere from 35-61 and they are ALL tired of him being PUSHED on us as if he had to basically be Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant to come out of the closet. He’s a Cliche’ Topless media whore. Who tells the same stories over and over. YAWN! If what you are saying is true well then the Gay movement hasn’t moved much.
Daniel MacFadden
I love him
Markajv
Yeak OK this is what it always looks like at a Barbershop…..
https://twitter.com/StpBnADICK/status/689099754282831873
UGHHH!
Doug
I’m tired of reading about this guy, too. Also Colton Haynes (Hayes?). Do you guys at Queerty get paid to continue to feature them doing meaningless things week after week?
Markajv
@laurent7465: Typical response YAWN!
Markajv
@Markajv: Well that did not come out right, Pfft!! Does everyone’s Barbershop look like this?
https://twitter.com/StpBnADICK/status/693093283959017472
Captain Obvious
@Markajv: He’s basically got men Anderson Cooper’s age pushing him to be some sort of big thing in Hollywood. No one else is really paying any attention to him. I don’t mean everyone in a certain age group, but it’s certainly men of a certain age going wild over him.
I just don’t see the big deal over this kid and want him to go away now. The overexposure is ridiculous.
Stilinski26
hot but over exposed!
Markajv
@Captain Obvious: Why would men of a certain age need a Gay Skier as a Role Model? You know, it would not be as annoying if every fucking time someone writes a story or a photo spread it’s always about something sexual? That’s not a role model for kids going through he pain of coming out (As he supposedly did) as much as riding a float in a Gay Pride Parade in your Jockstrap performing faux and sometimes real (Folsom Street Fair, SF gay pride, NY Gay Pride) sex right in public, while doing bumps, has anything to do with PRIDE!
Markajv
@Captain Obvious: HAHAHA! I just left here and the first column on this site is this!
http://www.queerty.com/gus-kenworthy-reveals-why-how-anderson-cooper-has-become-like-a-daddy-to-him-20160129#comment-1016589
HAHAHA!
4of14
Maybe Queerty should start an, ADD support group. People who are, over it, tried of it, and have had enough of just about everything printed within a few hours, days, months of it’s posting. There is a huge country between New York City and San Francisco, and we travel at a slower, more relaxed pace. Personal speaking, I like reading stories of success from, for and about, the gay community.
silveroracle
I agree with the comment about Russia being an unfit hosting country for the Sochi Winter Olympics.
rjw
@4of14 Well said. It’s sad that we can’t celebrate our own. I love that we now have another out athlete to cheer on.