What is Brian Orser?
[[File:Yuzuru Hanyu Brian Orser (cropped) - Brian Orser.jpg|260px|thumb|Orser in 2014]] '''Brian Orser''', [[Order of Canada|OC]] (born December 18, 1961 in [[Belleville, Ontario|Belleville]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]]) is a [[Canadians|Canadian]] [[figure skater]]. He won two [[silver medal]]s (second place) at the [[Olympic Games|Olympics]]: the first in [[1984 Winter Olympics|1984]] and the second in [[1988 Winter Olympics|1988]]. At the 1988 Olympics, he was part of the ''Battle of the Brians''. He and [[Americans|American]] [[Brian Boitano]] were both favorites to win the competition. Boitano won it in a very close call over Orser. In 1998, an ex-boyfriend of Orser [[outing|announced]] in a court of law that Orser is [[gay]]. Orser [[closeted|did not want this known]] at first. He thought that people knowing that he was gay would affect his career in a negative way. However, he has since embraced being ''outed''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.canoe.ca/SlamSkatingArchive/nov20_orser.html |title=Skater Brian Orser loses fight to suppress ex-boyfriend's suit |access-date=2012-07-15 |archive-date=2012-07-23 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120723071808/http://www.canoe.ca/SlamSkatingArchive/nov20_orser.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Orser [[retire]]d from show skating in 2007. He now is a co-director of skating at a [[Skating rink|rink]] in [[Toronto]]. == References == <references/> == Other websites == {{Commons category|Brian Orser}} * [http://www.canadianexcellence.com/ Brian Orser: Canadian Excellence] - Official website * [http://espn.go.com/otl/world/timeline.html ESPN's brief history of gay athletes] {{multistub|sports-bio|Canada}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Orser, Brian}} [[Category:1961 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Canadian figure skaters]] [[Category:Canadian LGBT people]] [[Category:Olympic silver medalists for Canada]] [[Category:Gay men]] [[Category:LGBT sportspeople]] [[Category:Sportspeople from Belleville, Ontario]]