Arts & Entertainment
Out skier Gus Kenworthy qualifies for Winter Olympics
the athlete is also the new spokesperson for Head & Shoulders
(Screenshot via YouTube.)
Freeskier Gus Kenworthy qualified on Sunday to compete on the U.S. Olympic team for the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea.
Kenworthy, 26, placed second at the last Olympic qualifier for freeski slopestyle earning him a spot on the Olympic team.
He and out figure skater Adam Rippon will be two gay men representing the U.S. in the Winter Olympics. Kenworthy did compete in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi but he did not publicly come out until 2015.
I’M GOING BACK TO THE OLYMPICS!!! pic.twitter.com/8Ys5p0PjOd
— Gus Kenworthy (@guskenworthy) January 22, 2018
Kenworthy is also celebrating another Olympic milestone. He is the new spokesperson for Head & Shoulders and will appear in a TV spot featuring the skier holding up a rainbow flag.
“You may have already spotted this on TV but I am SO excited to finally be able to share my Head & Shoulders commercial with y’all! Holding up those rainbow colors on national TV makes me feel PROUD! #ShouldersOfGreatness,” Kenworthy posted on Instagram.
The ad is expected to run during the airing of the Winter Olympics.
Watch the commercial below.
Baltimore
This John Waters interview has been edited for readability — but perhaps not human decency
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By WESLEY CASE | At 80 years old, John Waters is still the ideal dinner guest — incisively sharp, quick-witted and funny as hell.
The chic Baltimore native proved it again and again in a recent Zoom interview, calling from his summer home in Provincetown, Mass.
The occasion was the Blu-ray releases of two of his movies — the 1977 dark comedy “Desperate Living” and his enduring 1988 musical “Hairspray” — on June 23 by the Criterion Collection, which publishes restorations of films it deems culturally important. The Criterion stamp of approval has become the gold standard among cinephiles.
“It’s like getting an award,” said Waters, who wrote and directed both films.
The rest of this article can be read on the Baltimore Banner’s website.
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(Washington Blade photos by Landon Shackelford)
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(Washington Blade photos by Michael Key)
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