R 2016: Rerd Total of Gay Athlet Boost Homosexual Communy - News18

Contents:

• R 2016: DAILY BEAST 'SORRY FOR OUTG GAY ATHLET'
• TEAM LGBT'S R OLYMPIC MEDAL UNT BEAT EVERY UNTRY THAT CRIMALIZ GAY SEX
• OUTRAGE OVER OUTG OF ‘PROMISCUO’ GAY ATHLET AT R OLYMPICS
• RETURN TO R WH 3 OUT ATHLET WHO SHARE WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE GAY AT THE OLYMPICS – WATCH
• R 2016: RERD TOTAL OF GAY ATHLET BOOST HOMOSEXUAL COMMUNY
• OLYMPICS-RERD TOTAL OF GAY ATHLET BOOST HOMOSEXUAL MUNY
• HOW WILL OPENLY GAY ATHLET BE RECEIVED AT R OLYMPICS?
• STRAIGHT JOURNALIST CIS GRDR AT THE OLYMPICS, OUTS ATHLET FROM ANTI-GAY COUNTRI

R 2016: DAILY BEAST 'SORRY FOR OUTG GAY ATHLET'

Human Rights mpaign timat that there are at least 41 openly lbian, gay and bisexual Olympians – up om 23 that participated London 2012 – though puts that number much higher at 49. “I’ve seen a big crease terms of [gay] athlet and spectators” says LGBT analyst Charley Walters, who has vered the last eight Olympic gam and vered LGBT athlet extensively.

TEAM LGBT'S R OLYMPIC MEDAL UNT BEAT EVERY UNTRY THAT CRIMALIZ GAY SEX

The majory of out athlet are women, and there are no US men who’ve e out as gay before the Olympics. Outsports reports that football fans at the openg match of the Olympic women’s soccer tournament chanted homophobic slurs at some of the players.

"We're disabled and we're gay, " says Abby Dunk of the gold medal women's wheelchair basketball team.

Brish Olympian wh gay dad retir to bee an ally to LGBTQ athlet. Still no apology om wrer on gay Olympics story.

OUTRAGE OVER OUTG OF ‘PROMISCUO’ GAY ATHLET AT R OLYMPICS

Team LGBT medal unt beats every anti-gay untry.

Not even the anti-gay untry of Jamai, wh s 11 medals, uld e close to the performance of publicly out gay, lbian and bisexual athlet at the R Olympics. Gay Asie Olympian was out and proud R. R Gam are the gayt Olympics ever.

RETURN TO R WH 3 OUT ATHLET WHO SHARE WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE GAY AT THE OLYMPICS – WATCH

NBC profil married gay beach volleyball player. Gay Olympic rower aims to fight jtice: ‘Sport is a vehicle to she a light’. When he talked publicly for the first time about beg gay.

This gay Olympic diver will never surrenr to fear.

Venezuela’s Robert Páez wants to spire every gay man or woman to fd their own acceptance.

R 2016: RERD TOTAL OF GAY ATHLET BOOST HOMOSEXUAL COMMUNY

Podst: The gayt Olympics ever. Image source, AFPUS news webse The Daily Beast has apologised for publishg an article that may have "outed" a number of gay athlet at the R 2016 Olympics. Rears plaed some athlet - who were not named but were intifiable om tails the article - were om untri wh harsh anti-gay reporter had scribed how he ed onle datg, cludg popular gay app Grdr, to get dat wh Daily Beast said had "screwed up" and later removed the story said athlet were g datg apps such as Bumble, Grdr, Jack'd, and Tr to nnect wh other people at the gam.

OLYMPICS-RERD TOTAL OF GAY ATHLET BOOST HOMOSEXUAL MUNY

'Entrapment'Acrdg to gay liftyle magaze Attu, the reporter jtified his prence on the app, sayg he "didn't lie to anyone or pretend to be someone I wasn't - unls you unt beg on Grdr the first place - sce I'm straight, wh a wife and child. "However, US Olympic skier G Kenworthy, who is openly gay, acced the publitn of "entrapment", while Tongan swimmer Ami Fonua said The Daily Beast "ought to be ashamed". "Such a story has no place a morn media anisatn, " said, addg that the athlet affected served an said the article uld have put gay athlet' liv at risk.

Homosexualy is a crimal offence more than 70 untri, cludg some where is punishable by ath, cludg Iran, Mrania, Sdi Arabia, Sudan and an ial apology, The Daily Beast's edor--chief John Avlon said the ncerns were source, APImage ptn, Olympic skier G Kenworthy (right), here wh boyiend Matthew Wilkas, was among those who publicly cricised the article"We apologise for potentially jeopardisg that safety any way. "We nsir ourselv a safe space for the gay world, and while everyone is wele, is wh the unrstandg that this is a muny, not a novelty for reporters to troll, " a spokman said.

The publicly out gay, lbian and bisexual Olympic athlet R outperformed expectatns, wh 25 of the 53 publicly out athlet wng medals. Most untri that crimalize gay sex fared very poorly the Olympics.

HOW WILL OPENLY GAY ATHLET BE RECEIVED AT R OLYMPICS?

Var notorly anti-gay natns won zero medals, cludg Libya, Sudan and Uganda.

The LGBT athlet om Great Bra alone acunted for four medals, beatg all of the untri that crimalize gay sex, and others like Nigeria (one medal) and Tunisia (three medals).

After a Summer Olympic Gam that saw a rerd-smashg number of publicly out lbian, gay and bisexual athlet, the Paralympics are set to follow su R. (Photo by Alexanr Hassenste/Getty Imag) There are more openly gay Olympians that ever R, but how much of a signifint breakthrough is ?

STRAIGHT JOURNALIST CIS GRDR AT THE OLYMPICS, OUTS ATHLET FROM ANTI-GAY COUNTRI

When The Daily Beast briefly published a ntroversial article outg gay athlet the Olympics, the backlash was immense. Today, ’s #GBR race walker Tom Bosworth ??(?@TomBosworth) — Bleacher Report UK (@br_) 15 Augt 2016Life at the Olympic village R might be perfect for the LGBT muny, however, the world of sport is far om beg ee of homophobia. “My agent told me the team said they didn’t want to take you bee they were nervo about other teams’ fans beg hostile toward you bee of beg gay.

In 2013 a high-profile survey of 105 players om the bt football clubs the untry revealed that 56% of the players knew a gay player football.

Neverthels, no player has e out gay Swimmer Ami Fonua, who reprented Tonga at the Olympics this year, recently scribed the Olympic Village as a ’safe place’ for LGBT athlet. Three out Olympians recently talked about the historic nature of the R 2016 Olympics and their experienc beg openly gay athlet at the gam.