Organizers of the Paris Olympics say they intend to seize on the Olympic spotlight to push a broader message that LGBTQ rights need to progress outside France, too.
PARIS — Organizers of the Paris Olympics, who gave rainbow colors to their logo Wednesday to mark the international day against homophobia, transphobia and biphobia, aren't limiting themselves to promises of inclusive Games next year. They say they also intend to seize on the Olympic spotlight to push a broader message that LGBTQ rights need to progress outside France, too.
The IOC in 2021 relaxed how it implements a rule which historically had stopped athletes from making political, religious or other statements of belief or identity at the Olympics and it allowed the wearing of rainbow colors at the Tokyo Games in 2021. In Paris, athletes will also be "free to speak and to share their messages" when they're not competing, Estanguet pledged.
This week also saw the closure of a safe space for the LGBTQ community in Beijing, a critical blow for advocacy groups in the city that hosted the 2022 Winter Olympics.
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