There have been 584 modern Olympians (including Paralympians, Summer Olympians, and Winter Olympians) who have identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, pansexual, non-binary, queer, and/or having an intersex condition, or who have openly been in a same-sex relationship. The first Olympic Games in which an athlete now known to be LGBT+ competed was the 1900 Summer Olympics, also the first LGBT+ Olympic medalist. Including the artistic events at the Games, 1924 was the first instance of an Olympian being contemporaneously out, with 1928 having the first contemporaneously out LGBT+ Olympic medalist. The 1932 Summer Olympics was the first instance of an athlete now known to be intersex competing, also winning a medal. The first instance of a contemporaneously out LGBT+ Olympic athlet
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