The Tokyo Paralympics may see a record-high number of LGBTQ athletes

The Tokyo Paralympics may see a record-high number of LGBTQ athletes

CNN Edition - Sport·2021-08-25 12:05

(CNN)At least 30 athletes competing in theTokyo Paralympics identify as LGBTQ -- a new high for LGBTQ representation at the Paralympic Games, by one count.

That's more than double the amount of athletes who publicly identified as LGBTQ in the 2016 Rio Paralympics, according to the SB Nation blog Outsports, which conducted a similar countof LGBTQ participants for the Summer Olympics.

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