Colorful costumes and pageantry at the Olympics closing ceremonies

Theatrics and fabulous outfits closed out a very gay Summer Olympics (Photo: Paul Williams / Flickr).

If it were a country, Team Gay would have tied Jamaica for 31st in the XXXth Olympiad that closed (with a magnificent ceremony many in America did not see, thanks #NBCfail!) Thanks to SBNation via Joe.My.God and TruthWinsOut.org, we have this list to be proud of:

The 2012 openly gay Olympic medal winners are:

GOLD: Seimone Augustus, USA, Basketball. The U.S. women’s basketball team was arguably the most dominant team in any sport at these Olympics.
GOLD: Carl Hester, Great Britain, Equestrian. Hester and his two teammates won Great Britain’s first-ever Team Dressage gold. Hester finished fifth overall in the individual competition.
GOLD: Marilyn Agliotti, Carlien Dirkse van den Heuvel, Kim Lammers, Maartje Paumen, Netherlands, Field Hockey. The Dutch women beat Argentina, 2-0, in the gold medal match. Paumen and Dirkse van den Heuvel scored the team’s two goals.
GOLD: Megan Rapinoe, USA, Soccer. The Americans beat Japan, 2-1, in the gold medal match. Rapinoe had a key pass in the game. She also had two big goals in the semifinal match. Coach Pia Sundhage is also openly lesbian.
SILVER: Judith Arndt, Germany, Cycling. Arndt was the first out athlete to win a medal in London, taking silver in the road race time trial.
BRONZE: Edward Gal, Netherlands, Equestrian. Gal was on the bronze-medal team for Team Dressage; He finished ninth overall in the individual event.
BRONZE: Lisa Raymond, USA, Tennis. Raymond and partner Mike Bryan won the mixed doubles bronze medal.

Over a third (10/23) out gay Olympians took home medals, beating Team USA.

If Team Gay was a country, it would have finished 31st overall with seven medals, tied with Mexico, Ethiopia and Georgia. They would have beaten the medal count of such countries as Jamaica, Ireland, Argentina and India. They would have finished 21st overall for most golds (four), tied with Iran, Jamaica, Czech Republic and Korea.

And speaking of #NBCfail, here’s a link to the Closing Ceremony that USAmericans didn’t see on broadcast television. I personally never laughed once during the monkey-working-in-a-veterinarian-office sitcom preview we got to see instead. Enjoy!