News Round-Up: August 6, 2020

InstaHunks Gymbear79 ‘social-fitnessing’ (via Instagram)
Some news items you might have missed: • InstaHunks: Yes, Wes Dupree (“Gymbear79”) is practicing his “social-fitnessing.”  Good on him…The Wrap: Ratings for The Ellen DeGeneres Show sunk to a new series low last month following a bombshell Buzzfeed News report about the toxic work environment behind the scenes. Ratings for the talk show were down 9% from the prior week and a glaring -29% from the same week last summer. • Gay Star News: The Democratic Party has unveiled its platform for November’s elections and it is the most LGBT+ inclusive ever including major pledges to reverse Donald Trump’s anti-LGBTQ policies, ban ‘conversion therapy’, AND pass the Equality Act. • Winnipeg Sun: Former WWE pro wrestler Marty Jannetty posted (then deleted) on social media that at the age of 13 he murdered a gay man he was buying weed from after an alleged sexual assault. • NBC News: Facebook removed hundreds of fake accounts linked to conservative media outlet The Epoch Times that pushed pro-Trump conspiracy theories about coronavirus and protests in the U.S. Facebook took down the accounts as part of its enforcement against the use of fake accounts to inflate the reach of content or products on social media. The Epoch Times is owned by the virulently anti-LGBTQ Falun Gong cult, which also produces the touring acrobatics show, Shen Yun. • Cognitive Decline: Just days after Donald Trump was mocked for mispronouncing Yosemite National Park as “Yo-semites,” the Trumpster – who accuses former Vice President Joe Biden of not being mentally on point – referred to Thailand as “ThighLand.”

InstaHunk Round-Up: Weekend Edition

Gustavo Naspolini and mom (via Instagram)
Welcome to this weekend edition of InstaHunk Round-Up. First up, we honor and send bestest wishes to all mothers in whatever fashion it manifests! We start off with Gustavo Naspolini (above) wishing his mother her well-deserved recognition. Pierre Vuala celebrated fitness victories large and small:  

Nathan McCallum was working out (for a change) his back and biceps with those band thingies that I totally keep meaning to order:  

Trans bodybuilder Paulo Batista was sweating out a major pump in his garage gym:  

 

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Garage sweat for #humpday🐪. #quarantinelife wacky beard #quarantinebeard❤️ @flexcomics

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Out in the sunshine, Ramses Principe offered up some new ways to workout abs:  

Gymbear Wes Dupree was delivering while distancing in Seattle:  

 

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#deliveringwhiledistancing #Amazon

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Petr Hollesch went on a walk with his cute pup:  

 

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My little puppy #amstaff #spring #southmoravia #czech #gay #daily #instagood #instaphoto #tbt #igers

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Fitness model (and Britney Spears’s main squeeze) Sam Asghari got pumped taking a neighborhood bike ride:  

 

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Neighborhood bike rides 💪🏽

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Ignacio Pérez Rey took his Madrid morning slow:  

 

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late morning

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AND – there were some great tributes to the 100th anniversary of Tom of Finland:  

 

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#tomoffinnland #toms100 #throwback to the great shoot with @kikodionisio_photography

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