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1.Promotion of human rights, including LGBT rights, around the world.
2.Gay and bis*xual travel.

20/08/2026

Mitja Zubin went to the European Championships hoping people would talk about his running.

Instead, they started calling him gay slurs.

So the 20-year-old Slovenian hurdler did something rather wonderful:

He came out. 🌈❤️

After an interview with Slovenia’s Athletics Federation attracted homophobic comments about his appearance and s*xuality, Mitja shared them publicly and called out the hate.

Then something unexpected happened.

His national athletics federation stood behind him.

And Slovenia’s president personally spoke up too.

“There is no place for homophobia, hate speech and discrimination in sports in our society,” President Nataša Pirc Musar wrote.

Mitja then publicly confirmed for the first time that he is gay.

Most people close to him already knew — he first came out to his mom, younger brother and close friends at 16.

But he decided to say it publicly for someone else.

“I came out so that maybe someone who comes after me, someone younger, won’t be ashamed of it.”

And this isn’t an athlete whose career is winding down.

Mitja recently broke 50 seconds in the 400m hurdles for the first time.

His dreams?

The World Championships.

Maybe even the Olympics.

And now he wants young gay athletes to know they can dream that big too. 🥹🌈

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20/08/2026

RIP 😢 Tyler Duckworth knew people noticed that he was gay.

He just wanted them to notice something else too:

He could win.

Tyler, the Real World: Key West alum who became a two-time champion of MTV’s The Challenge, has died at just 44. His mother announced the news Thursday, saying his cause of death has not yet been determined.

For viewers who met him on MTV in 2006, Tyler belonged to a very different era of gay visibility on reality television.

And he understood the pressure that came with it.

“I take it very seriously that I’m going to represent the gay community,” he told Entertainment Weekly when he returned to The Challenge in 2021.

But then came the part that really sounded like Tyler:

“Not only am I gay, but I can win these things and I’ve proven that I can.”

He certainly had.

Tyler competed across six Challenge seasons, winning Cutthroat in 2010 and Rivals with Johnny Bananas in 2011. After a decade away, he returned for All Stars 2 and later All Stars 3.

Away from television, he became a middle- and high-school teacher.

And just days ago, he was back among Challenge fans in his hometown of Minneapolis, writing afterward that hearing their stories of “courage, inspiration & joy” was humbling.

Tyler never needed to be remembered simply as “the gay guy” on reality TV.

He gave us plenty of other reasons.

He competed.

He came back.

And he won.

Twice. ❤️

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20/08/2026

Few men could stop a scroll the way Blake Mitchell could. For more than a decade, he was one of the hottest stars in gay adult film, all cocky grin and Kentucky swagger - and today, on what would have been his 32nd birthday, plenty of us are remembering exactly why he was impossible to look away from.

His real name was Lane Rogers, born on this day in 1994 in Lexington, Kentucky. He got expelled from school, walked six miles to a diner job, and was out as bis*xual back when that got you nothing but grief.

Then in 2014 he started camming, blew up fast, and turned into one of the biggest names in the business - the boy-next-door face with a body that launched a thousand subscriptions.

He also refused to be boxed in. In 2019 he ditched the Blake Mitchell persona and told everyone to call him Lane. He was loud about his bis*xuality and had zero patience for the biphobia he caught even from other q***r people.

He rescued horses, took up competitive riding, went back to college. The man contained multitudes, and he was fun about all of them.

That ended on December 15 last year, when Lane died in a motorcycle crash in California. He was 31.

20/08/2026

Someone threatened to shoot people at a gay beach party.

Others called for it to be bombed.

The response from the LGBTQ+ community?

They went to the beach anyway. 🏳️‍🌈🏖️

Long Beach’s annual Big Gay Floatilla was hit with a wave of violent threats and homophobic abuse online days before the event.

Some commenters accused LGBTQ+ people of being pedophiles simply for gathering on a public beach.

Police took the threats seriously.

A 26-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of making a criminal threat, and officers increased security around the event.

Organizer Sal Flores-Trimble even says the FBI contacted him after bomb threats were reported.

It would have been understandable to cancel.

Instead, around 200 people showed up.

Some came specifically because they had heard about the threats and wanted the LGBTQ+ community to know they weren’t alone.

One attendee traveled from Laguna saying:

“I saw the news, and I had to come and support it.”

Sal says turnout was lower than the 300+ people who attended previously.

“Maybe people were scared.”

But those who came swam, socialized and enjoyed the beach anyway.

And when people asked whether the event would be canceled, members of the community told him:

“If you cancel, we’re still going to show up.”

Sal’s response?

“This is ours. We’re not going to hide.” ❤️

Sometimes Pride is a parade.

Sometimes it’s simply refusing to leave the beach.

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20/08/2026

Ryan Phillippe was 22 when he filmed I Know What You Did Last Summer. His son Deacon is 22 right now, and the new photos of him look like someone dragged a frame out of 1997.

Wet hair. Sun-faded California light. A pair of boxers doing the absolute least. Deacon shot a new campaign for the Venice Beach label ERL this week, and somewhere around the third image we stopped pretending we were looking at the clothes.

Which brings us to his father, because you cannot talk about this without talking about him. Ryan Phillippe has been a fixture of gay male desire for over thirty years, and he earned it early.

He was 18 when he played Billy Douglas on One Life to Live, the first openly gay teenager on American television. Then came the shirtless horror years, then Sebastian Valmont in Cruel Intentions, then decades of photo shoots where the shirt never quite made it into frame. At 51 he is still doing it.

Now the same jaw, the same shoulders, the same lean swimmer build have turned up on a 22-year-old with an NYU degree and an album out. Nobody in that comment section mentioned the album.

"This is the nepotism I wanna see," one of them wrote. Someone else has already filed a formal request for a Cruel Intentions photo shoot.

20/08/2026

Remember Chris from the gay couple on this year’s Married At First Sight Australia?

Well… apparently he didn’t need the experts after all. 😂❤️

Chris Robinson has officially hard-launched a new boyfriend, months after his very complicated TV marriage to Sam Stanton came to an end.

And naturally, he did it with a little drama.

His Instagram video begins with Chris wondering whether he’ll ever meet someone who can handle his life — the farm, the animals, fatherhood and everything else that comes with dating him.

Enter: handsome mystery man. 👀

A few smiles, some very attractive farm-boy energy and then…

💋 Kiss.

No relationship essay required.

Chris hasn’t publicly revealed much about his new man yet, which is absolutely his choice.

But it’s quite the turnaround.

After MAFS, Chris said that “men and love” were at the bottom of his priority list while he focused on his daughter, family, farm and himself.

Apparently somebody has worked his way considerably higher up that list. 😂❤️

Congratulations, boys!

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20/08/2026

Well, that was quick. 😂

Less than two months ago, model and actor Derek Chadwick helped launch a new gay dating app called Goose.

The idea came from a frustration many gay men can probably relate to.

Derek had been single for two years and wondered publicly:

“How come there are no cool dating apps in 2026?”

So he helped build one.

Goose launched June 25 promising something different from the usual gay dating apps — less transactional, less hookup-focused and more about dating, friendship and actual human connection. 🪿❤️

Then things got complicated.

The app faced controversy over its marketing and privacy practices, including a WIRED investigation into apparently AI-generated Instagram accounts promoting Goose.

Derek defended the company at the time.

Now?

He’s gone.

Derek says he actually left Goose last week after his vision for the app and the direction of the company stopped aligning.

He hasn’t said the controversies caused his departure, so neither will we.

But the timeline is rather extraordinary.

May: Gay dating apps suck.

June: I made one.

August: I quit. 😂

Gay dating really IS complicated.

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20/08/2026

Neil Patrick Harris remembers thinking his coming out could turn into a very bad week.

Instead?

Almost everyone basically shrugged.

And he was slightly offended. 😂🌈

Neil has been looking back at the strange circumstances that led him to publicly come out as gay in 2006.

At the time, he was starring as aggressively heteros*xual womanizer Barney Stinson on How I Met Your Mother — while privately building a life with David Burtka, now his husband.

Everyone on the show knew they were together.

The public didn’t.

At premieres, Neil would walk the red carpet while David went around the photographers.

Then gossip bloggers began circling.

After a publicist told a reporter Neil was “not of that persuasion,” Neil realized the story was starting to escape his control.

“I’ve gotta get ahead of the story,” he remembers thinking.

He feared the next step would be reporters openly asking people to come forward with stories about sleeping with him.

So Neil released a statement proudly identifying himself as gay.

And then…

“There was indifference at best.”

Neil joked that he’d expected at least a little:

“Wait, what? Him?! He’s so masc!” 😂

Instead, he credits openly gay people who came before him with making his own coming out considerably easier.

Nearly 20 years later, perhaps that non-reaction was actually the victory.

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20/08/2026

One of the straightest brands in American pop culture is now being run by a gay man.

And Phillip Picardi has plans for the Bunny. 🐰🌈

The former Teen Vogue editor who launched Them and later led Out is now editor-in-chief of Pl***oy — a magazine historically built around heteros*xual male fantasy.

His mission?

Make Pl***oy “playful again.”

Picardi says there’s little point trying to compete with internet p**n in 2026.

“You no longer need a print magazine for that,” he rather reasonably points out. 😂

Instead, he wants Pl***oy talking about s*x, relationships, loneliness, masculinity and pleasure — while keeping the beautiful photography and, yes, the nudity.

The shift is already visible.

Cara Delevingne recently became the first openly le***an woman to appear on Pl***oy’s print cover, while the magazine has explored everything from the “s*x recession” to AI and intimacy.

Picardi isn’t trying to turn Pl***oy into a gay magazine.

But there is something delicious about one of America’s great symbols of straight male s*xuality being reimagined by the gay man who helped create Them.

The Bunny has entered its q***r era. 🐰🏳️‍🌈

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20/08/2026

Igby Rigney is playing one of television’s more complicated gay characters right now.

A teenage Bret Easton Ellis who has a girlfriend, secretly sleeps with boys — and is constantly performing a version of himself that feels safe enough for 1981. 🌈

In FX’s The Shards, Bret is 17, closeted and increasingly obsessed with mysterious new student Robert Mallory while a serial killer stalks Los Angeles.

Rigney says that split between Bret’s gay and straight selves became something physical in his performance.

Around girls, Bret tightens up.

Around boys, his whole body changes.

Asked whether that difference was carefully directed, Rigney joked:

“That was all natural, baby.” 😄

The intimate scenes weren’t what scared him most either.

He has described them as almost like choreography — once everyone knows the boundaries and movements, you simply play the scene.

More difficult were the psychologically darker moments involving Bret’s secrecy, paranoia and the adults around him.

And despite literally playing a fictionalized Bret Easton Ellis, Rigney says he never met Ellis while making the show.

Ryan Murphy became his main guide instead.

Four episodes in, The Shards is turning into something much more interesting than a glossy serial-killer drama.

At its center is a gay teenager trying to work out who he is while pretending he already knows.

And Igby Rigney is very, very good at showing the difference. ❤️

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