Figure Skating Career
Patton is also a figure skater, usually skating under his birth name. His father was previously an Assembly of God pastor and his mother is a Christian college secretary in Victoria, Australia. He has won two Gold medals at the Gay Games VI and two silver medals at the 2006 World Outgames in Montreal. He has also worked with Disney on Ice.
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