Just a reminder that the 2016 Olympic games are going to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where:

  • Same-sex sexual activity is legal
  • Civil unions have been legal since 2011
  • Nationally recognized same sex marriage became legal last year
  • Same-sex couples are explicitly legally protected in adoption procedures.
  • Gays are alowed to serve openly in the military
  • People are allowed to legally change their name and gender on all identifying documentation.
  • A wide-ranging national LGBT anti-discrimination law is working its way through the Senate, to bolster already existing regional and partial anti-discrimination laws. 

Let me Introduce Myself

prxperly:

1. The meaning behind my URL
2. A picture of me
3. Tattoos I have
4. Last time I cried and why
5. Piercings I have
6. Favorite Band
7. Biggest turn off(s)
8. Top 5 (insert subject)
9. Tattoos I want
10. Biggest turn on(s)
11. Age
12. Ideas of a perfect date
13. Life goal(s)
14. Piercings I want
15. Relationship status
16. Favorite movie
17. A fact about my life
18. Phobia
19. Middle name
20. Anything you want to ask

ernestsewell:

The website of Canadian Olympic bobsledder Justin Kripps has been banned in Russia, after an image he posted of himself and his teammates in their underwear last month went viral.

The image, posted on Kripps’s personal website Jan. 17, spread rapidly on social media and received coverage by various mainstream news organizations.

Kripps is in Sochi for the Winter Olympics, and discovered the page wouldn’t load after he logged into his website from his cellphone.

Instead, he saw an error message in Russian text.

He ran the text through an online translator, which said the website had been “restricted” in Russia. The error message says the website has been restricted for information prohibited by Russian law.

CBC’s social media lead, Monika Platek, says speculation is the law in question is Russia’s infamous one that bans gay propaganda.

Platek spoke to Kripps on Friday and quoted him as saying that if that’s the case, the law has gone too far.

“‘It’s pretty crazy,’” Platek quoted Kripps as saying.

Excuse me where do I apply to be the bobsled?