Shirtless Boyfriends In New York City, Rocco Ritchie’s Modeling Debut & Chris Pratt’s Sweaty Hat

Ryan Lochte might be a liar, but thanks to him and his crazy antics in Rio last Friday, we got one of the first news weeks of the year that wasn’t dominated by Donald Trump headlines. Thanks, Ryan!

Aside from Gus Kenworthy’s tip, Ellen’s so-called “racist” meme, and Tom Bosworth’s proposal, here’s what you might have missed on Instagram:

Team USA wrestler Jordan Burroughs showed off his Olympic ink.

Olympic judo silver medalist Rustam Orujov: A reason to visit Azerbaijan.

Harry Louis got a dog!

Blake Skjellerup stretched his thighs out at the gym.

And so did Andy Cohen.

American model Leaon Gordon went for a dip in the pool

And Don Lemon fell into one.

Derrick Gordon got his nipples pierced. The former NCAA Division I basketball player said this week that he believes “without a doubt” that he was blacklisted from the NBA “because of the fact that I’m gay.”

Team GB gymnast Max Whitlock tested his upper body strength at the top of Rio’s famed Sugarloaf Mountain. This week he picked up two Olympic gold medals and one bronze, in men’s pommel horse, men’s floor exercise, and men’s individual all-around, respectively.

Team USA gymnast Jake Dalton made a sand angel.

Broadway babes Andy Mientus and Michael Arden tied the knot!

Rocco Ritchie is no longer estranged from his famous mother Madonna. He posed with her for his “debut modeling gig” in the UK’s Love magazine this week, and celebrated her 58th birthday in Cuba.

Gay twin Adam Monastero is #bulking for #summer.

Chris Pratt mocked his InStyle interview in a series of posts: “In this photo I try to casually put my left hand in my pocket but the pants are so tight I get the tip of three fingers in. Also I was sweating so bad they give me that hat.”

Former Big Brother houseguest and future porn star Will Wikle gave Trina a run for her money.

Did Conhita Wurst attend Amsterdam Pride? Or did Amsterdam Pride attend her?

Austin Armacost posed nude with a pack of cigarettes.

The NYC heat was way too much for Max Emerson and Andrés Camilo, his hot soldier boyfriend. (No complaints here!)

And badass out Tongan swimmer Amini Fonua remained the gift that keeps on giving—

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A Look Back At Pre-Lochte Olympic Scandals

Ryan Lochte may be one of the best swimmers in the world, and one of the worst thugs, but he’s only mediocre when it comes to generating Olympic scandals. The event has a long, tawdry history of making the world gasp in shock, raise its collective eyebrows, and grab its pearls. Someone at E just compiled a lurid collection of some of the strangest scandals and it’s an absolute must read for anyone who loves drama and dirt.

Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding are of course top of mind — you may be old enough to recall the weird situation when Harding arranged to have someone hit Kerrigan’s legs before the games. Alas, the hit man wasn’t as good as Harding hoped, and Nancy wound up winning silver. Tonya is banned from the professional figure skating organization for the rest of her life.

Then there’s Lance Armstrong with the whole drug-taking issue, along with Marion Jones, and Yulia Efimova who is alleged to have done the same. Tommie Smith and John Carlos delivered black-power salutes back in the 60s, and were banned. And various olympic officials took bribes throughout the late 90s (and probably for much more time) by people hoping their city would be selected for the games.

But of course the dark past of the Olympics goes much further back. Prior to the rise of Hitler, Germany was a fairly accepting place for LGBTQs, and sent gay Olympian Otto Pelzer to compete in 1928. Rather than working for the Nazis, he was arrested for homosexuality and imprisoned at a concentration camp for years. Following the war, he fled to India, coached there for several years, then died of a heart attack in 1970.

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‘I Am Cait’ Gets The Axe Plus 8 Other Queer Reality Shows That Everyone Hated

Break out the fiddles. I Am Cait, the E! reality series that followed Caitlyn Jenner on her journey of self-discovery, has officially been canned due to shockingly low ratings.

Related: Caitlyn Jenner Making Small Talk With Hillary Clinton Is As Uncomfortable As It Sounds

The show’s first season, which premiered last summer, started out strong. Reviews and ratings were favorable, and the show even picked up the Outstanding Reality Program award at the 27th GLAAD Media Awards. But as time progressed, and as Jenner regularly started making gaffes about how Hillary Clinton “couldn’t care less about women” and Donald Trump “would be very good for women’s issues,” she quickly fell out of people’s good graces.

Related: Bette Midler’s Twitter Shade Campaign Continues With Caitlyn Jenner Dig

“It’s time for the next adventure,” the 66-year-old said this week, before thanking “the best girlfriends I could ask for!” Given Jenner’s vocal support of Trump and his anti-LGTBQ Republican friends, however, we can’t help but wonder if her girlfriends feel the same way.

Scroll down for eight more queer reality TV shows that everyone hated…

Boy Meets Boy

This 2003 reality series by Bravo centered around James, a gay man who got to go on dates with and choose from 15 potential male suitors. But, as is often the case in these sorts of things, there was a twist. The suitors were mix gay guys and straight guys, and James didn’t know which was which! The show lasted a whopping six episodes before being canceled.

Carson Nation

This 2011 docu-series produced by OWN followed Carson Kressley of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy fame as he traveled to various sad small towns across the America selecting “deserving individuals,” including a soldier’s daughter, a 45-year-old male virgin, and a woman dying of cancer, who he felt needed makeovers. It should come as no surprise the series only survived six episodes.

Playing It Straight

This 2004 FOX reality series, which ran for a total of eight excruciating episodes, involved a heterosexual woman and a bunch of dudes all forced to live together on ranch. Her challenge? Guess which of the guys were gay and which were straight. The woman would watch them participate in group activities, observing their vocal inflections and mannerisms, then vote off the ones she believed were homosexuals. Nothing homophobic about that, right?

The Glee Project

We usually love everything Ryan Murphy does, but his 2011 foray into reality TV proved that sometimes even he makes mistakes. The talent show served as a sort of competition/audition for teeny boppers hoping to land a spot on Glee. Ryan and Glee‘s casting director, Robert Ulrich, would judge the contestants on their singing and dancing abilities. The show limped along for two seasons before being quietly yanked off the air.

Gay, Straight Or Taken?

This short-lived 2007 reality series by Lifetime involved a female contestant going on a poolside group date with three men. There was a catch, of course. One of the men was straight but in a relationship, another was gay and in a relationship, and the third was straight, single and ready to mingle. The woman had to guess which was which. If she picked correctly, she won a trip.

Tacky House

This 2009 reality series by the Style network starred former Queer Eye design guru Thom Filicia, who would go around and redo the homes of people who had gone overboard on a theme. He was supposed to turn their houses “from gaudy to glorious,” but he usually just succeeded in turning them from gaudy to slightly less gaudy. The show met its untimely death after just one season.

Queer Eye For The Straight Girl

In 2005, Bravo hoped to recapture the success of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy by switching up the formula. The makeover show involved three flamboyant gay guys and a bossy lesbian who called themselves the “Gal Pals” and would help clueless straight women improve their looks in hopes of finding their Prince Charming. Needless to say, the show bombed and was canceled after 13 unlucky episodes.

Jacob and Joshua: Nemesis Rising

Who wouldn’t want to watch two douchey identical gay twins from Montana form a crappy pop duo called Nemesis then embark on a journey seeking fame and fortune? Turns out, a lot of people. The 2006 reality series by Logo bombed so bad that the network didn’t even air the final episode on TV. Instead it was made available online only… where still nobody watched it.

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Orange Juice, Anita Bryant And The Queer Revolution

You owe it to yourself to take some time out of your day and learn about the dark, weird, juicy backstory of Anita Bryant. History-minded queers probably already know the broad strokes: she was a model and singer of some kind, and eventually an orange juice spokesmodel, and then an anti-gay activist at a time when you could still do that sort of thing.

Today, she’s a punch line — but a poetic article on Extra Crispy dives deep into her strange life.

Anita rose to fame in the 60s, first as a good-but-not-great pop singer and then as the voice of Florida’s Citrus Commission. She seemed wholesome and nice, just the sort of thing you’d want associated with a breakfast drink. There was a bit of an orange juice craze in those days — like milk during the depression, people thought of it as a sort of superbeverage crammed with important nutrition.

At the same time, LGBTs were demanding rights and equality; and for a few moments it seemed like we might actually be successful. There wasn’t much organized resistance to gay liberation in the 1970s, so when queers and allies got a little political power they were able to enact some protections. (This is why gay couples were able to marry, briefly, in the 1970s.)

But even though America didn’t have an anti-gay infrastructure yet, it did have a prevailing cultural prejudice, and it didn’t take much effort to whip citizens up into a panic about perverts. Anita Bryant capitalized on the ignorance of the time, attacking LGBTs as sick and dangerous. That touched off a massive gay boycott of orange juice. One one side you had civil rights activists of the time, including Harvey Milk; on the other, you had figures like Anita and Jerry Falwell (whose disgusting son just endorsed Donald Trump.)

The whole thing may have backfired, though. Anita gave the gay community an opportunity to speak up and fight back, and a population that used to be quiet and avoidant became electrified with new activism.

Anita’s still alive, though she’s never apologized or expressed regret. Reflecting back on the impact she’s had and her lingering, now-funny legacy, it must be hard not to feel like a waste of a life.

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The Hallucinatory and Erotic Self-Portraits of Baz Here (Photos)

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Olympic History Made: First Gold Medals for Same-Sex Spouses

Kate and Helen Richardson-Walsh, members of the gold-winning British women’s field hockey team, made Friday night one for the record books.

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