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Blue_Tires

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3. I don't get it...

Reply to Saviolo (Original post)

Thu Aug 11, 2016, 10:46 AM

Aug 2016

The news is that when people go to Rio (regardless of reason) they expect to have a good time??

Hell, the author would have gotten just as much action on Grindr/Tinder even if the Olympics wasn't in town...

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XPost LGBT: Daily Beast "journalist" joins Grindr in Rio and is Shocked! Shocked I tell you! UPDATE [View all] Saviolo Aug 2016 OP

Putting their lives at risk bluedye33139 Aug 2016 #1

And all too familiar Saviolo Aug 2016 #2

I don't get it... Blue_Tires Aug 2016 #3

The news appears to be Saviolo Aug 2016 #4

And despite subsequent edits, it is certain that screenshots and downloads of the tblue37 Aug 2016 #5

Slate has a no-nonsense response to it Saviolo Aug 2016 #6

Slate? (Thanks for the link, though). nt tblue37 Aug 2016 #7

Dur! Saviolo Aug 2016 #8

how absolutely horrible. I'm literally feeling sick right now renate Aug 2016 #14

This is a direct result of...wait for it... Behind the Aegis Aug 2016 #9

Our old "friend" heteronormativity Saviolo Aug 2016 #11

Yup. Behind the Aegis Aug 2016 #13

100% Saviolo Aug 2016 #16

"We’re not here to entertain you, or amuse you..." Iggo Aug 2016 #10

Engagement parties or bridal showers going to a gay bar! Behind the Aegis Aug 2016 #12

He's "straight" like the guys at gay bars "doing research for a term paper" closeupready Aug 2016 #15

Yeah his assertion, "I'm straight, no really." Saviolo Aug 2016 #17

As I've aged, I'm understanding that the idealization of heterosexuality serves closeupready Aug 2016 #18