LGBTQ news and entertainment
Sharing some of my favorite Instagram posts from this week. First up, woofy Chicago teacher @ghyousomethin got a lesson in remembering to check the blender lid. Continue reading “InstaHunk Round-Up: Weekend Edition”
Out Olympian Tom Daley, along with his diving partner Matty Lee, triumphantly won the men’s 10m synchronized platform final today for Team Great Britain. In his fourth Olympic Games, this is Daley’s first gold medal. Continue reading “Out Olympian Tom Daley Wins 1st Gold Medal”
https://www.instagram.com/p/CNgpH5ypIFg/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Checking in with the hunks of Insta… Dr. Marco (above) is getting in his zone before taking his final licensing exam. #NiceZone Paleontologist Francesc Gascó took a moment to flex his furry goodness after working all day. https://www.instagram.com/p/CNhgQQAB7hQ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Curtis Fitzgerald, Doctor of Dental Medicine, threw down some serious Salsa moves: https://www.instagram.com/p/CNg58T8gf3S/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link The Rock finished the week strong by working out “hard” – and he really means “HARD.” https://www.instagram.com/p/CNeHUiIlrrC/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Artist Indar Isaiah Smith got all cheesy for the camera: https://www.instagram.com/p/CNbUdlrD872/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Doctor Yazan remembered one of his favorite hikes “with great views.” We agree on the view… https://www.instagram.com/p/CNVsgNeB9ZE/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Former Army Captain Roberto Portales crushed his “competition:” https://www.instagram.com/p/CNbOhdZB68f/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Jim Newman sees “beautiful” things in Sao Paulo – and we do too 
https://www.instagram.com/p/CNc-wPOl8b3/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Olympian Tom Daley was asked to recreate a celebrity look, and he chose Harry Styles’s green boa and leather. How’d he do? https://www.instagram.com/p/CNeqXZiHwor/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Billy Reilich says this is going to be his “mood” for the next couple of months: https://www.instagram.com/p/CNdOCcQLXbx/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Fitness model Dan Tai (via Instagram)Checking in to see how the Hunks of Insta are doing this fine weekend.
First up, Dan Tai (above) was just happy to get to the weekend and was looking forward to some self-time. We know how you feel, Dan…
Olympic diver Tom Daley is doing his dolphin thing at the aquatic center keeping his eye on the upcoming Olympics:
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Actor Luke Evans is considering becoming a doggie daddy:
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Carson Tueller has been killing at the gym and has a message for the fitness industry:
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DJ (and Daddy Wolf) Thiago Oliveira reminds us to hydrate after a workout:
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Bruno Tarchetti threw out a Insta-costume change:
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Some news items you might have missed:
• Paleontologist Francesc Gascó (above) redefines the old saying, “Walk tall and carry a big… hammer?” Ok, I’m not complaining… 🙂
• Out Olympic bronze medalist Adam Rippon not only attended the TIME 100 Gala in New York City as one of the news magazine’s “100 Most Influential of 2018” but he got to sniff country music star Keith Urban along the way.
• Hottie Simon Dunn trolled anti-LGBT Australian rugby player Israel Follau for saying gays will go to hell by kissing his bf after his own rugby match and then retweeting the pic to Follau. Follau has doubled-down in his hateful comments saying he’d rather end his career than take back what he said.
Victory kiss. pic.twitter.com/REvhoUN2bX— Simon Dunn (@BySimonDunn) April 22, 2018
— Simon Dunn (@BySimonDunn) April 23, 2018
• Diver Tom Daley, married to Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black, says girls can still turn his head.
• A NYC subway rider found DWTS and ANTM champ Nyle DiMarco so hot she took creeper pics of him. She didn’t know he did the same 🙂
• Parker Matthews dropped his new music video for “Hit and Run” recently. In writing about the video, Pop Dust gushed, “Matthews’ confidence in his sexuality glows onscreen.”
I interviewed the talented popster back in February. You can catch my chat with him here and check out the video below.
In this week’s podcast:
• Miami Beach Pride gay bashing
• Sen. Cory Booker calls out Secretary of State nominee Mike Pompeo on LGBT rights
• Newly-elected Alabama Sen. Doug Jones became the latest co-sponsor of The Equality Act citing his son Carson’s coming out as affecting his view on LGBTQ rights
• Out UK diverTom Daley speaks out against Commonwealth anti-gay laws
• Matt Bomer’s casting in upcoming film trans-oriented ANYTHING gets boos from transgender community
• And the latest political parody from Randy Rainbow – “You Can’t Stop His Tweets”
All that and more in this episode of The Randy Report.
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| Tom Daley (L) with diving partner Dan Goodfellow (R) |
After winning his 4th Commonwealth Games gold medal (with synchronized 10 platform diving partner Dan Goodfellow) on the Gold Coast in Australia where marriage equality recently became legal, Tom Daley called for more Commonwealth countries to repeal anti-homosexuality laws.
Of the 53 countries included in the Commonwealth, homosexuality is illegal in 70% of those nations.
From The BBC:
Homosexuality remains illegal in 70% of the 53 Commonwealth countries.
“Coming to the Gold Coast and being able to live as an openly gay man is really important,” said Daley, 23.
“You want to feel comfortable in who you are when you are standing on that diving board, and for 37 Commonwealth countries that are here participating that is not the case.”
Speaking to BBC Breakfast, Daley added: “I feel extremely lucky to compete openly as who I am, not worry about ramifications. But for lots of people living in those countries it is not the case.
“We have to talk about these things and shine a light on them in order to get change.”
Daley is married to Academy Award-winner Dustin Lance Black and expecting their first child this summer.
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🏳️🌈 37 of the competing nations criminalise being LGBT+. I feel so lucky to be able to be openly who I am without worry. I hope one day every athlete from every nation in the commonwealth will be free to compete openly as who they are too! 🏳️🌈 pic.twitter.com/ry4GPiZhdB— Tom Daley (@TomDaley1994) April 13, 2018
Gay power couple Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black announced via Instagram today they are expecting their first child.
Along with the pic of an ultrasound, Black shared, “A very happy #ValentinesDay from ours to yours.”
A spokesperson for the couple, who married in England last May, confirmed the baby will arrive later this year, “Tom and Dustin are thrilled to share that they are expecting their first child in 2018.”
Just goes to prove the old adage, “Practice makes perfect.”
As Olympic (and current world champion) diver Tom Daley notes in the beginning of this video, diving and gymnastics use different sets of muscles, but Daley and Olympic Bronze medalist Nile Wilson find the common ground putting each other through the other’s paces.
I have to say, I expected to watch a few minutes of the clip, but was drawn in by how accomplished both athletes are in the other’s arena. Daley clearly had a lot of acro-experience for his diving, and Nile was fearless trying out some not-so-simple dives.
And, there is the fact that both are easy on the eyes 🙂
Watch the boys work it out below.
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Out UK diver Tom Daley snagged the gold medal this past weekend at the World Aquatics Championships in Budapest.
The triumph surely helps smooth some heart ache for Daley after a disappointing Olympic showing in Rio last year where he was eliminated in the semi-finals.
His victory included beating the Olympic gold medalist, Chen Aisen of China.
Hubby (and Oscar winner) Dustin Lance Black took to Instagram to celebrate: “I already couldn’t have loved you more or been prouder so I’ll just go full Texan and say Holy Cow! My husband is World Champion! Now let’s go honeymoon. I love u @tomdaley1994!!”