Brian Anthony Boitano (born October 22, 1963)[ is an American figure skater from Sunnyvale, California. He is the 1988 Olympic champion, the 1986 and 1988 World Champion, and the 1985-1988 U.S. National Champion. He turned professional following the 1988 season. He returned to competition in 1993 and competed at the 1994 Winter Olympics, where he placed sixth.
In 2013 Boitano was named to the official United States delegation to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. In conjunction with that appointment Boitano publicly came out as gay. The Sochi games and Russia have been the targets of criticism and LGBT activism because of a Russian anti-gay "propaganda" law passed in June 2013.
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