Tag: Rio

Adore Delano and Bianca Del Rio will never return as competitors on RuPaul’s Drag Race. For the new issue of GAY TIMES, we had season six winner Bianca interview runner-up – and her best squirrel friend – Adore, to discuss a variety of topics: dating as a drag queen, her music career, and of course, Drag Race. During their conversation, Bianca opined that the Emmy Award-winning series has changed since their season, which aired in 2014 and also included contestants such...

The Celebrity Big Brother winner spoke to Metro about her time on the sixth season of the Emmy Award winning series and how she and fellow contestant, Bianca Del Rio, used to break the show’s rules. “You are not allowed to talk when you’re not on camera,” she told the publication. “It’s reality TV – they want to capture all the magic for the cameras so you’re sequestered away in rooms and everyone gets in a minivan to the hotel...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. government will start returning migrants to Mexico to wait out their U.S. court hearings in Mexico through Brownsville, Texas on Friday, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said. The program, known as the “Migrant Protection Protocols,” began in January this year and is already operational in several cities along the U.S.-Mexico border. This week the expansion will continue into the Rio Grande Valley, the spokeswoman said in an email,...

Less than three years after a performance at the Rio de Janeiro games filled with epic highs and lows, Tom Daley is officially returning to the Olympics in 2020. And he’s hoping to resolve some unfinished business. This past Monday, Daley and partner Matty Lee won a bronze medal at the 2019 FINA Diving World Championships in Gwanju, South Korea in the Men’s 10 meter synchro competition. In doing so, they automatically qualified for a spot in next summer’s Olympic...

More than 500,000 people celebrated Pride at the Copacabana. More than half a million people took part in Rio Pride yesterday (11 December). https://www.instagram.com/p/BN6_i5XjLhe/ At the height of Brazil’s summer, 600,000 people came together at the Copacabana to celebrate the 21st Rio Pride Parade under the motto of ‘I am my Gender Identity’. https://www.instagram.com/p/BN5MnB6gxge/ For 2016, the political aspect of Rio Pride focused on the push for a bill increasing LGBTI equality in the country’s healthcare system. https://www.instagram.com/p/BN47ypPBrmO/ If it passes, both the public health system...

Grindr is spilling the tea on all the “chatting” than went down in Rio during the Olympics earlier this month. According to data published by the hook-up app today, a stunning 38,000 people from 109 nations were using Grindr in Rio, racking up an incredible 14 million messages during a two-week period. Grindr’s statistics do not include any identifying factors, unlike a post earlier this month by the Daily Beast. An interactive map allows you to see which countries guys chatted with...

On Sunday, The International Olympic Committee (IOC) made an announcement that will no doubt make plenty of people happy, our readership not least among them. Following his “gay baiting” story — in which Daily Beast contributor Nico Hines scored Grindr dates with athletes participating in the Rio Olympics — the publication has decided to send the journalist packing. The IOC issued a statement that said Hines’ story was “simply unacceptable.” https://twitter.com/JohnHandscombe/status/765107893108666368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/Eponineq/status/765073276997513216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/ChadTaylor/status/765056856662302720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw His article — which featured the headline “The other Olympic sport in Rio: Swiping” —...

Gay British track and field athlete Tom Bosworth proposed to his boyfriend Harry Dineley while in Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Olympics. Bosworth, a race walker for Team GB (as in Great Britain), shared the above photo on Twitter of him down on one knee with ring box in hand. Bosworth captioned the photo simply, “He said YES!!!” Bosworth had a strong showing at the Rio Olympics last week,finishing 6th in the 20K race walking event–impressive considering he was ranked 37th...

A record 43 LGBT athletes are competing in the Rio Olympics games this summer, but some of those Olympians have already become the targets of homophobic slurs from the crowds, reports the LA Times. The homophobic insults were heard coming from the stands of Estadio Mineirao on Wednesday when women’s soccer players took the field. The L.A. Times reported that people in the stands hurled the anti-gay term, “bicha” -a Portuguese word similar to ‘faggot’ at women on the field. Think Progress...

Just about 24 hours ago, Nico Hines (pictured) became the Internet’s most hated man, and the fury shows no signs of dying down anytime soon. Hines, who is white, straight and married with a kid, has been in Rio covering the Olympics for The Daily Beast. As part of his reporting, he thought it would be hilarious to create a fake Grindr profile and bait closeted gay athletes then write all about it. Apparently, his editors thought this would be hilarious, too, because they signed off on it. Well, very shortly...

“USA! USA! USA!” That’s what Colton Haynes’ butt cheeks are saying in a new video posted to the freshly out actor’s Snapchat page. Mr. Haynes recently showed off his support for Team USA in Rio by twerking in a red polo shirt, white Tommy Hilfiger pants and red, white and blue Top-Siders. We have to say, he’s got a pretty nice shake. Check out the video below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEQqx2WAoe0 Source

The first same-sex proposal has taken place at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games! After crowds dispersed at the women’s rugby sevens final on Monday, Marjorie Enya walked onto the pitch and asked Brazil player – and partner of two years – Isadora Cerullo to marry her. Marjorie, a 28-year-old manager at Deodoro Stadium, took a microphone and delivered a moving speech before the couple embraced to applause. https://twitter.com/DanielleWarby/status/762826188226113540?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw She told BBC Sport: “As soon as I knew she was in the squad I thought...

This year’s Olympic games will feature a record number of out LGBT athletes. In Beijing 2008, just 12 openly LGBT athletes competed, with Australian diver Matthew Mitcham– who went on to win gold – being the only gay man. Eight years later, however, and there are an estimated 42 LGBT athletes set to compete in Rio. This is nearly double the 23 openly LGBT athletes who took part in the London 2012 games. The LGBT athletes come from 13 different countries, spanning 6...

A photo has emerged of two men kissing while completing the Olympic torch relay for Rio 2016. The un-named couple were two of many to make an epic journey across Brasil for the 2016 games. And amid the chaos of the relay, they stopped to have a kiss. Published on goqueer, the photob by Pedro Veríssimo shows an intimate moment amid the crush of the run. Also carrying the torch was trans woman Laerte Countinho, who was believed to be the only trans person in...