# Kirsty Gilmour, Scottish badminton star and LGBTQ+ advocate, at World Championships in Delhi 2026-08-15T20:06:16+00:00 | Sports | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet Kirsty Gilmour, the 32-year-old Scottish shuttler, is competing at the BWF World Championships in New Delhi, the city where her international career began at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Newindianexpress.com reports that Gilmour, who has won two Commonwealth Games medals and reached a career-high world ranking of 14, sees her return to Delhi as a full-circle moment. Off the court, Gilmour is noted as a prominent LGBTQ+ advocate. She told the outlet she hopes for wider debate on the issue and recalled the comfort of seeing a hotel in Delhi display LGBT symbols. Her tattoos, including Olympic rings and a depiction of a Scottish landscape, reflect her career milestones and personal journey. ## Coverage - newindianexpress.com This story was synthesised by AI from the source linked above. Tags: BWF World Championships, Commonwealth Games, Kirsty Gilmour, New Delhi Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/kirsty-gilmour-scottish-badminton-star-and-lgbtq-advocate-at-world-championships-in-delhi/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/kirsty-gilmour-scottish-badminton-star-and-lgbtq-advocate-at-world-championships-in-delhi/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes. How this brief was made: an AI model read the report linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/