All posts tagged "olympics"
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Rio 2016 is the gayest Olympics ever
Rio 2016's record number of LGBT athletes has led to both pitfalls and wonderful moments of love and acceptance
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Daily Beast apologizes after outing Rio 2016 athletes in “homophobic” article
Nico Hines' story threatened the safety of several closeted athletes
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Rio Olympics: 43 LGBT athletes to compete
This year's Olympics will be the most queer-friendly ever, but LGBT participation stretches back almost a century
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Victor Gutierrez, Spanish water polo star and Olympic hopeful, comes out
Victor Gutierrez came out to help "break a taboo within the sport"
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Olympic skier Gus Kenworthy reveals he’s gay to ESPN
"I guess I should start by saying, 'I'm gay,'" Gus Kenworthy told ESPN.
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Texas woman wants Caitlyn Jenner to return her gold medal
In a stunning case of ignorance, a woman from Texas has started a petition on Change.org asking Caitlyn Jenner to return her Olympic gold medal....
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War Dispatches
We laugh to avoid screaming. Or maybe we try therapeutic tweeting. There were no new media to distract us in 1989. Cartoonist Garry Trudeau did...
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LGBT activists arrested as Sochi Olympics begin
“Their actions today are undeniable proof that their ‘anti-propaganda’ law is being applied widely to restrict the basic rights of LGBT people and our allies.”...
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Gay Gulag
With the 2014 Winter Olympics upon us, all eyes are on Russia. To an arguably greater degree than many of this year's predecessors, however, many...
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Protester arrested while waving rainbow flag at Olympic torch relay
”Hosting the games here contradicts the basic principles of the Olympics, which is to cultivate tolerance.” — Pavel Lebedev, speaking with the Associated Press by...
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State Department issues warning to Americans traveling to Sochi Olympics
The State Department issued a travel alert Friday warning Americans planning to travel to Russia for the Sochi Winter Olympics to “remain attentive regarding their...
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Obama: U.S. delegation to Sochi Olympics ‘speaks for itself’
President Obama said Friday that the composition of the U.S. delegation to the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, “speaks for itself,” while specifically naming two...
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Brian Boitano comes out as third gay American delegate to Sochi Olympics
The number of out gay athletes part of the U.S. delegations to the Sochi Winter Olympics increased to three Thursday after Brian Boitano came out...
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White House downplays message of gay-inclusive Olympic delegations
The White House is downplaying any message of condemnation of Russia’s anti-LGBT law that could be perceived from the composition of the U.S. delegations to...
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Obamas, Bidens to skip Sochi Olympics, send gay-inclusive delegations
Top United States officials will not attend the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, this February, signaling a continued strained relationship between the two countries over...
