193 Athletes

 

The 2024 Paris Olympics broke a record by having 193 Openly Gay Athletes competing.

That count surpassed the 186 Athletes at the COVID-19-delayed Tokyo Olympics held in 2021.

At the Sydney Olympics in 2000 there were only 5 Openly Gay Athletes.

 

The Olympics have been held in Places where Homosexuality was Illegal (punishable by jailtime and/or death) at the time of the Olympic Games in:

St. Louis, Missouri, USA in 1904

London, England, UK in 1908.

St. Moritz, Switzerland in 1924.

Lake Placid, New York, USA in 1932.

Los Angeles, California, USA in 1932.

Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Nazi Germany in 1936.

Berlin, Nazi, Germany in 1936.

London, England, UK in 1948.

Melbourne, Australia in 1956.

Squaw Valley, California, USA in 1960.

Munich, West Germany in 1972.

Moscow, The Soviet Union in 1980.

Sochi, Russia in 2014.