At least 144 out LGBTQ athletes will be heading to Paris for the 2024 Summer Games, with a record number of out male Olympians participating, according to the LGBTQ sports site OutSports. In the last Summer Olympics, held in Tokyo in 2021, there were at least 186 out competitors, but the list originally started at 121, according to OutSports co-founder Cyd Zeigler, who said the number increased as the sports news site became aware of additional publicly out athletes. Zeigler said he anticipates that the number of out athletes on the 2024 list will grow as well. “We’ve already, in the last 24 hours, heard of about a half dozen out athletes that we did not know of,” he said. He added that the new additions include more male athletes and will be added to Outsports’ tally next week.