The Threshold
The right used to attack athletes who protested. Now they attack athletes who express feelings at all.
On Sunday, Amber Glenn won an Olympic gold medal in the team figure skating event. She wore an LGBTQ+ pin on her team jacket at the medal ceremony. That same day, she announced she was stepping back from social media after receiving what she described as “a scary amount of hate/threats.”
Her offense: she’d told reporters a few days earlier that the queer…
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