Gus Kenworthy is dating someone after coming out as gay last month

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Kenworthy, 24, revealed the romantic development this week
The world champion and Olympic medalist came out last month
He took home a silver medal at the 2014 Sochi Winter Games in Men's Freestyle Skiing

By Chris Spargo For Dailymail.com and Zoe Szathmary For Dailymail.com

Published: 02:11 EST, 8 November 2015 | Updated: 07:19 EST, 8 November 2015

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Gus Kenworthy, the world champion skier and Olympic medalist who came out last month, is dating someone.

Kenworthy, 24, revealed the romantic development to People this week, at the 14th annual An Enduring Vision benefit for the Elton John AIDS Foundation.

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Gus Kenworthy, the world champion skier and Olympic medalist who came out last month, is dating someone. He is seen at the 14th annual 'An Enduring Vision' benefit for the Elton John AIDS Foundation on Monday

Party time: CNN's Anderson Cooper and Bravo's Andy Cohen are seen with Kenworthy at the benefit

Kenworthy uploaded this snap to Instagram, writing: 'For dinner at the @ejaf gala they were serving up some silver-fox sandwich realness. Lol! Pleasure to be seated at a table with these two handsome gents'

Kenworthy shared a selfie of him on Instagram with Elton John at the event, and wrote 'Hanging out with the rocket man himself!'

According to the website, 'it's still new.'

Kenworthy told People he came out because 'I guess I just got to a point where it was just really painful and it was taking a lot out of me, trying to keep up the facade, and just constantly lying and avoiding questions and dodging answers.

'And I guess I just wanted to get to a point where I was free and – I don't want to be ashamed of part of me, I just want to be proud of it. And I encourage that of other people.'

Kenworthy shared a selfie of him on Instagram with Elton John at the event.

'Hanging out with the rocket man himself!' he wrote online.

Kenworthy wrote: 'Over the course of the evening, 3.3 million dollars were raised for HIV/AIDS awareness, prevention and treatment (more than $349 million has been raised since the foundations inception). It was beautiful to witness so many influential people giving so generously to such a noble cause.'

He also posted a selfie showing him with CNN anchor Anderson Cooper and Bravo's Watch What Happens: Live host Andy Cohen.

Kenworthy's caption said: 'For dinner at the @ejaf gala they were serving up some silver-fox sandwich realness. Lol! Pleasure to be seated at a table with these two handsome gents.'

World-champion skier Gus Kenworthy came out as gay in an interview with ESPN the Magazine

Gus shared his news on Twitter by tweeting 'I am gay' and 'Today is the first day of the rest of my life', pictured above, on October 22

Olympic ski slopestyle medalists (L to R) Nick Goepper, Gus Kenworthy and Joss Christensen with David Letterman in February 2014

The Olympic medalist came out in a cover story with ESPN the Magazine, sharing a link to the interview on his Twitter account October 22 and writing: 'I am gay.'

The 24-year-old took home a silver medal at the Sochi games in Men's Freestyle Skiing for his performance in the Slopestyle competition.

Kenworthy revealed in the interview that he wanted to wait until he was the best in the world at freestyle skiing to finally come out as gay.

He said: 'I never got to be proud of what I did in Sochi because I felt so horrible about what I didn't do.

'I didn't want to come out as the silver medalist from Sochi. I wanted to come out as the best freeskier in the world.'

Kenworthy told the magazine it was difficult at times on tour when he was asked if his girlfriend was in attendance and he had to say no - despite the fact that his boyfriend was there supporting him.

Kenworthy's ex-boyfriend Robin Macdonald had shared a supportive post saying how proud he was with a photo of the two and one of the stray dogs they took home (above)

The stress over this would lead to him vomiting before events as he went up in the chairlift, fellow skier and best friend Bobby Brown said in the ESPN the Magazine piece.

Kenworthy said: 'Part of [the stress] is the fact that I've never had a TV boyfriend. That's actually something I want so bad - a TV boyfriend.'

It has already been an amazing year for the skier, who finished the season number one despite considering retirement early in the season.

Kenworthy told ESPN the Magazine he called his father with the news he was quitting the sport after a difficult few months that included him not medalling at The X Games and the end of his relationship with his boyfriend.

'In a state like he was in, I told him not to make decisions,' Gus' father Peter recalled telling his son while speaking to the news outlet.

'I said, "Go home, sleep on it and worst case, give yourself another year."'

That decision led to one of the best seasons of his career, and a new passion for his sport.

'I want to be the guy who comes out, wins s*** and is like, I'm taking names,' Kenworthy told ESPN the magazine.

'I didn't want to come out as the silver medalist from Sochi. I wanted to come out as the best freeskier in the world,' Kenworthy told ESPN the Magazine (above in a February competition)

Shortly after news broke that Kenworthy had come out as gay, he received tweets of support from fellow skiers Tom Wallisch and Sage Kotsenburg, US Freeskiing, the US Olympic Committee and actor Chloe Moretz.

'So proud and amazing to see you so strong !!!!' wrote Moretz.

'Gus Kenworthy couldn't be happier for you.'

Kenworthy came to international attention during the Sochi games when he and his fellow Americans swept the podium in freestyle skiing - only the third time that had happened in Olympic history.

After returning home he appeared on Today, The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon and The Late Show With David Letterman, as well as the covers of magazines like People and US Weekly.

He and his fellow freestyle medalists were even pictured on a box of Kellogg's Corn Flakes.

He was also one of the athletes who helped to save and bring home many of the stray dogs in Sochi after the Olympic Games with the help of his boyfriend at the time Robin Macdonald.

Macdonald had to spend a month in Sochi after the Olympics in order to complete the necessary paperwork to bring the dogs back to the United States.

Kenworthy told ESPN the Magazine that sadly two of the dogs that were brought back died, and the rest he lost when his ex-boyfriend took them following their split.

Kenworthy was one of the athletes who helped to save and bring home many of the stray dogs in Sochi after the Olympic games

Kenworthy shared a photo of himself 'choked up' (above) after watching the story of his coming out on ESPN

He wrote on Instagram last month: 'For most of my life I’ve been afraid to embrace that truth about myself. Recently though, I’ve gotten to the point where the pain of holding onto the lie is greater than the fear of letting go, and I’m proud to finally be letting my guard down.

'My sexuality has been something I’ve struggled to come to terms with. I’ve known I was gay since I was a kid but growing up in a town of 2,000 people, a class of 48 kids and then turning pro as an athlete when I was 16, it just wasn’t something I wanted to accept.

'I pushed my feelings away in the hopes that it was a passing phase but the thought of being found out kept me up at night. I constantly felt anxious, depressed and even suicidal.

'Looking back, it’s crazy to see how far I’ve come. For most of my life I’ve dreaded the day that people would find out I was gay.

'Now, I couldn’t be more excited to tell you all the truth. Whether you've suspected it all along or it's a complete shock, it’s important for me to be open and honest with you all.

'Y’all have supported me through a lot of my highs and lows and I hope you'll stay by my side as I make this transformation into the genuine me - the me that I’ve always really been.'

Macdonald also shared a photo of his ex and one of their dogs on Instagram and wrote online: 'After being with @guskenworthy for many years I have learned he is a self obsessed monster and actually the biggest pile of s**t on the planet.

'He is also my favorite and I will always have much love for you even though we don't see much of each other anymore. Love you Gussy and lots of kisses from Jake and Mishka.'