Johnny Weir Set To Marry Atlanta-Area Lawyer
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- On Top Magazine Staff
- | December 14, 2011
Two-time Olympian Johnny Weir is engaged to marry an Atlanta-area lawyer.
The 27-year-old Weir in late October tweeted to this more than 100,000 followers that his boyfriend had proposed marriage to him and that he had accepted.
Weir has since deleted the message. But that hasn't stopped the figure skater, who only recently came out in his memoir Welcome to my World, from referring to @vitya_zvesda (which translates roughly to Victor Star from Russian) as his husband.
“Up too late missing my Husband @vitya_zvesda. I want everyone to be as happy as I am sometime in their lives …,” he wrote on November 22.
In an interview with The GA Voice, Weir referred to his boyfriend, an Atlanta-based lawyer, as his fiance.
“My boyfriend, fiance now, has only recently come out and he's 28 years old and it's been an uncomfortable, rocky road for him.”
“We're a typical relationship that you would see on a sitcom, only we're two gay men,” Weir added.
Weir will participate in a CNN panel discussing LGBT issues originating from Grady High School in Atlanta on Wednesday.