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# FILM PREVIEW: The Ice King
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/film-preview-the-ice-king/
- Published: 2018-02-19T16:50:33.000Z
- Updated: 2018-02-20T09:23:47.000Z
- Description: Tony Fenwick, CEO of LGBT History Month hosts a screening of The Ice King, a feature documentary about John Curry, in the view of many the greatest figure skater of all time and the first openly gay Olympian.
- Author: Besi
- Tags: Arts, In The South, LGBT History Month, News, Previews, Sport

## Tony Fenwick, CEO of LGBT History Month hosts a screening of *The Ice King*, a feature documentary about John Curry, in the view of many the greatest figure skater of all time and the first openly gay Olympian.

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/web-600-73.jpg)

**John Curry, a truly remarkable man** who took Gold in the mens singles figure skating competition at the Innsbruck Olympic Winter Games in 1976, transformed ice skating from a dated sport into an exalted art form.

Coming out on the night of his Olympic win in 1976, he became the first openly gay Olympian at a time when homosexuality wasn’t even fully legal.

Toxic yet charming, rebellious yet elitist, emotionally aloof yet spectacularly needy, ferociously ambitious yet bent on self-destruction, he was a man forever on the run – from his father’s ghost, his country and himself.

**The Ice King** is a searing documentary about a lost cultural icon, and a story of art, sport, sexuality and rebellion.

After the screening there will be a Q & A with **James Erskine** the films director.

Contains moderate sex references and discriminatory attitudes.

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**Event:** **The Ice King**

**Where:** Duke’s at Komedia, 44-47 Gardner St, Brighton BN1 1UN

**When:** Thursday, February 22

**Time:** 6.15pm

**Cost:** £12.20

**To book ticket online, [click here:](https://www.picturehouses.com/cinema/Dukes%5FAt%5FKomedia/Whats%5FOn?ref=scenemag.co.uk)**