Tweets About Gus Kenworthy & Matthew Wilkas’ Olympic Kiss Prove That Everyone Is Loving Their Sweet Moment

The Winter Olympics are well underway, and there has been no shortage of exciting moments. On Saturday night, Feb. 17, Team USA freestyle skier, Gus Kenworthy, prepared for the Men's Slopestyle competition, and he shared a sweet moment with his boyfriend, Matthew Wilkas, right before competing. The cameras caught the couple's quick peck on the lips, and tweets about Gus Kenworthy and Matthew Wilkas' Olympic kiss show that people are very much here for this barrier-breaking kiss at the Winter Olympics.

As it turns out, neither Kenworthy or Wilkas were aware in that moment that the cameras were on them, according to The Guardian. The couple was simply acting the way you might assume any couple would (gay or straight) right before one half of the couple is about to compete in one of the biggest athletic events of their life. It just so happens that Kenworthy is one of two openly gay athletes on Team USA competing in the 2018 Winter Olympics.

With that in mind, people were loving every second of this show of affection between the couple. Viewers immediately recognized the significance that this loving moment between an openly gay couple aired on live television.

Members of the LGBTQ+ community expressed the great significance of seeing this kiss on television, even though it may seem like a "normal thing to do."

"...To see people in your LGBTQ+ community being able to do this openly and freely ... Well, there is nothing like it."

More to come.

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