Boitano's character also appears in the fourth episode of the first season of the "South Park" television series in the episode "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride". In this September 1997 episode of the show the Boitano character appears ice dancing during the gay liberation-themed song "We're All Gay and It's OK!" The very private Boitano came out publicly as gay only on December 19, 2013, days after being named by President Barack Obama to the American delegation to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.