John Currys News Today

The war, for two reasons. One, i wanted to set the record straight regarding how george bush and his administration misled us into the war in iraq under false pretenses. Secondly, i wanted to add my thoughts as to how to make sure this never happens again by trying to change our intelligence laws so that classified intelligence isnt misused in this fashion in the future. When i was writing book and finishing it a year ago, little did i realize that the issues that have sprung from our involvemen...

And it didnt change who he was as a person to him. and it certainly didnt change who he was ever going to be as a performer. he made that very clear. he allowed athletes, _ especially within figure skating, to trust who they were, - to be able to be who they are without feeling the judgment. you know, ithink, growing up, i knew something - was different about myself. i wasnt quite sure what it was. and i think, if there were more role models when i was a kid, _ you know, more john currys, - more...

Thats really what my show is about. in the late 1980s, the aids epidemic was affecting millions around the world. curry had been diagnosed with hiv in 1987, and by 1991, it had progressed to aids. john curry returned to the west midlands and spent his final years with his mother, rita, before passing away at the age of 1m. johns openness to his hiv status really set the groundwork for normalising what hiv as we know today is about. obviously, we lost millions of our community and people worldwid...

Hell turn professional and try to build an ice dance group. l those plans are still vague. there are, at the moment, i more pressing preoccupations forjohn curry. do you think you could win this thing at the olympics? i hope so. do you think so? i dont know. its very hard. its very hard to say. i think i have as good a chance as anybody else. 0lympics. by the 1976 season, curry was at the peak of his career in the sport. he dominated in europe, and for the first time, started beating skaters fro...

Being absolutely heartbroken hearing of his passing because he died without knowing the love of his own mother. and its heartbreaking to think back to johns era, and thankfully his family accepted him, but a lot of the people that he loved the most, that created the sport, thatjudged the sport, just didnt want anything to do with it, and itsjust really sad. i mean, eitherway, i what have you done? i mean, you havent invented penicillin, i you havent cured cancer, you havent built- an old peoples...

He made that very clear. he allowed athletes, especially within figure skating, _ to trust who they were, - to be able to be who they are without feeling the judgment. you know, i think, growing up, j i knew something was different about myself. i wasnt quite sure what it was. - and i think if there were more role models when i was a kid, j you know, more john currys, i more robin cousins within our sport, it would have been a lot easier to identify- with who i was. you know, i wasjust looking, ...

He made that very clear. he allowed athletes, especially within figure skating, to trust who they were, to be able to be who they are without feeling the judgment. you know, i think growing up, i knew something was different about myself, i wasnt quite sure what it was. and i think if there were more role models when i was a kid, you know, more john currys, more robin cousins within our sport, it would have been a lot easier to identify with who i was. you know, i wasjust looking, you know, ther...

Millions around the world. curry had been diagnosed with hiv in 1987, and by 1991, it had progressed to aids. john curry returned to the west midlands and spent his final years with his mother, rita, before passing away at the age of 1m. johns openness to his hiv status really set the groundwork for normalising what hiv as we know today is about. obviously, we lost millions of our community and people worldwide to this horrible virus _ i did have an uncle who was gay who was banished from the fa...

Something in common with him. i knew that i wanted to skate like he did, i to have the lines that he did with his arms and his legs, i and just the absolute technical perfection that john curry- was all about. john curry was such a pioneer and such a role model in so many different ways. breaking barriers, engaging with dance choreographers, bringing musicality in a new way to an art form, which was very much pure sport to begin with, being lgbtq and a role model in that sense and pioneering and...

The love of his own mother. and its heartbreaking to think back to johns era, and thankfully his family accepted him, but a lot of the people that he loved the most that created the sport, thatjudged the sport, just didnt want anything to do with it, and itsjust really sad. i mean, eitherway, i what have you done? i mean, you havent invented penicillin, i you havent cured cancer, you havent built- an old peoples home, - you zoomed around the ice. is what you do really - of any importance at all?...