Why is figure skating so gay?

I was remiss yesterday in not including this other article from the current Lavender issue, which I realized as I watched the Olympic women's singles figure skating last night (deadly dull, except for the perky Russian gal whose name I didn't catch - not the famous one). It's a fairly informative article from a magazine that, for the most part, contains an awful lot of fluff (which doesn't make it an any less interesting read), about the perception that male figure skaters are all gay. It turns out, of course, that PLENTY of them are!