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Gus Kenworthy and boyfriend Matthew Wilkas split
The couple dated for nearly four years
Olympic freeskier Gus Kenworthy and his boyfriend Matthew Wilkas have split after nearly four years.
“Gus and Matt are taking time apart,ā a rep for the couple told People. āThey love and support each other and remain close friends.ā
According to Page Six, a source reveals that the couple “drifted apart.ā They reportedly split right before the Fourth of July. Page Six also reports that Wilkas has already been seen on Grindr.
Kenworthy, 27, and Wilkas, 41, met on Instagram in 2015 and began dating in November 2015. The couple made history when cameras caught them kissing at the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea in 2014. It was the first gay kiss involving an Olympian to be televised.
They shared Birdie, a Jindo/Labrador mix, who they saved from a dog meat farm in South Korea.
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More than 1 million people attend Madonna concert in Rio
Free event took place on Copacabana Beach on Saturday
An estimated 1.6 million people on Saturday attended Madonna’s free concert on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach.
The concert, which was the last one as part of Madonna’s Celebration Tour, included a tribute to people lost to AIDS.
Bob the Drag Queen introduced Madonna before the concert began. Pabllo Vittar, a Brazilian drag queen and singer, and Anitta, a bisexual pop star who was born in Rio’s HonĆ³rio Gurgel neighborhood, also joined Madonna on stage.
Congresswoman Erika Hilton, a Black travesti and former sex worker, and Rio Municipal Councilwoman MĆ“nica BenĆcio, the widow of Marielle Franco, a bisexual Rio Municipal Councilwoman who was assassinated in 2018, are among those who attended the concert.
“Madonna showed that we fight important fights for the human rights of Black (people), young (people), women and LGBTQIA+ people, and against all injustice, discrimination, and violence,” saidĀ AssociaƧao Nacional de Travestis e Transexuais (National Association ofĀ TravestisĀ and Transsexuals), a Brazilian trans rights group known by the acronym ANTRA, on itsĀ X account.Ā “What they call identitarianism’ is our subversion to the retrograde and conservative tackiness that plagues the country.”
The Associated Press reported the concert was Madonna’s biggest ever.
The DC Center for the LGBTQ Community, SMYAL and Rainbow Families sponsored Gay Day at the Zoo on Sunday at the Smithsonian National Zoo. The Smithsonian observed International Family Equality Day with special exhibits and an event space.
(Washington Blade photos by Michael Key)
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PHOTOS: Taste of Point
Annual fundraiser held for LGBTQ youth scholarship, mentorship organization
The Point Foundation held its annual Taste of Point fundraiser at Room & Board on May 2.
(Washington Blade photos by Michael Key)