“As a kid growing up, I didn't want to tell any of my classmates I did figure-skating because I knew they'd be like, 'Oh, you're a skater, you're gay, blah blah blah.' So I kept it to myself. Once I started getting to more of an elite level, I didn't really care what people thought, though.”

American figure skater, born 1999

Nathan Wei Chen is an American figure skater born in 1999. He is known for winning the 2022 Olympic title in men’s singles and the team event, along with three World championships and six U.S. national titles. Chen has also been a three-time Grand Prix Final champion and the 2017 Four Continents champion. Earlier in his career, he earned medals at junior level events and became the youngest skater to win a U.S. Championship at the novice level in 2010, when he was ten.