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Getting to be authentic is so liberating.
I spend so much of my time on the road and traveling.
I'm representing the LGBT community, and I want to do well for them.
More than I've wanted anything, I've wanted to do well at the X Games.
I always have at least one book with me. I try and read a book a month.
I chose a public platform to come out. I wanted to have an impact with it.
I want to be the guy that's taking names, on the podium, and winning events.
I hope that any gay kids see me as beacon of light, not just in sport but in general.
I'm putting in the time to make sure that my body is ready to compete at the top level.
I realize how fortunate I am to have been able to make a life and career out of skiing.
I love Kim Chi the drag queen from 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' but I'm not sure about the food.
Jet lag is tough, to be honest. For me, it's much easier to force yourself to stay awake.
You can be gay and be proud of that and not have to worry about being unsuccessful or unaccepted.
The Olympics is all about inclusion, coming together for sport. That's the footprint I want to leave.
All I can really say is to encourage anybody who's in the closet to come out, and congratulate anyone who has.
If everyone could see everyone else the way their mom saw them, it would be a much better place for all of us.
The thought of being the first openly gay male ever to compete in the Winter Olympics - I totally embrace that.
Dating in the closet is torture. It's one of the most difficult things, especially if you are completely closeted.
Figure skating, especially the longer performances, are such a feat. It requires so much stamina and is so beautiful.
I was insecure and ashamed. Unless you're gay, being gay has never been looked at as being cool. And I wanted to be cool.
I'm not one of those people who can eat whatever I want and never go to the gym. I have to work hard for any results I see.
I love that our country is one where you have the freedom to protest and to stand up for what you believe in and speak on it.
I think it's so important to have visibility and to break down stereotypes and stigmas and everything that people are so attached to.
I have the LGBT audience behind me, and there's all these people that I want to make proud, and I want to do well aside from just myself.
Having an Olympic medal validates that you can be a successful freeskier... It's like a credential that sticks with you the rest of your life.
Miley Cyrus followed me, tweeted at me. We started messaging; we traded numbers. She's become like a friend. She's super supportive of me being gay.
I would probably say Breckenridge has the best park out of any resort. They build the best jumps, they have fun rails, and the pipe is well kept, too.
I didn't even ski halfpipe until I was 14 because the resort where I lived didn't have one. So it wasn't always my favorite event, but I grew into it.
The chance of messing up and falling significantly increases when you're flipping through the air three times while spinning and trying to grab your skis.
Someone coming out as gay shouldn't be newsworthy; it shouldn't be warranting a magazine cover or anything like that, which I had as my story for coming out.
The Olympics is a cool opportunity to represent our country, which is amazing. But I have another community I am competing for, and that is the LGBT community.
Growing up, I always wanted kids, and that was one of the things that made it hard for me to accept being gay, but now I know it's totally an option to have kids.
Since I came out of the closet, I've gotten to just really be myself and feel authentic and honest and genuine. It's just been a huge relief for me competitively.
I don't listen to music when I ski - I find it distracting - but I will sing to myself before I go to just get my mind out of what I'm doing and relax a little bit.
I've been through stretches of my life where I've been super focused on what I'm eating, and then you're on the road, and you end up eating a lot of carbs and tacos.
I think that being in the closet is really hard. It takes a toll on your mind. It takes a toll on you. I think it just makes every aspect of your life more difficult.
I always felt like I had something to prove, like I had to work twice as hard to make sure I got it. I knew I didn't want to be a good skier. I wanted to be the best.
I wound up adopting two dogs from Sochi. It wasn't really me who brought them home as much as it was one of my best friends, Robin Macdonald, who was out there with me.
It's a life I would have never been able to foresee for myself, but I'm so grateful for it, and I really just loved skiing as a kid, and it's crazy how far it's taken me.
If people are hiding their sexuality, they don't really get their full selves, so you can sometimes feel like you're presenting sort of like a fogged version of yourself.
I don't think there's a direct correlation between my sexuality and my skiing ability. But I think because I was so concerned about it being found out, it was a distraction.
I don't ever train half-pipe except for the short training sessions during events, and because of that, I have a really hard time consistently putting my runs down smoothly.
There are so many animals in shelters that need homes. Rather than going to a breeder and buying a dog, or a puppy mill or anything like that, I've always been a big fan of adoption.
When I was in the closet, I had so much pressure on my shoulders. When I came out, that was actually the first moment I felt relieved of those stresses. It really showed in my skiing.
As a kid, I just felt like I didn't really have anyone to look up to that I felt like I could really relate to, someone that was out and gay and also competing in sports and finding success.
My family's dog, when I was growing up, was an adopted dog that I got in a shelter for my birthday. I've always felt really strongly about adopting animals and trying to save animals' lives.
I look at photos of the Sochi Olympics - even though it sometimes seems like it was just yesterday - that photo doesn't even look like me. It looks like a child. I don't even recognize myself.
My mom has been there for me in moments where I definitely needed her the most, and she has this inherent way of knowing exactly what to say and exactly how to talk to me, whatever the situation.
One of the most exciting and unique parts of slopestyle is that every course is unique. You don't really know what to expect when you show up at an event, and it's always fun trying to put a run together.
When we have people elected into office that believe in conversion therapy and are trying to strip trans rights in the military and do these things that are directly attacking the LGBT community, I have no patience.