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The recent passage of a bill stigmatizing the gay community by the lower house of Russia’s parliament and anti-gay violence that ensued, has officials of the IOC concerned about the upcoming Winter Olympics scheduled to take place in Sochi, Russia.

With his camera-ready good looks, quirky catchphrases and funky fashion choices, swimmer Ryan Lochte parlayed the five medals he won at the 2012 Olympic Games into a burgeoning media career.

Ji Wallace, a gay Australian Olympic gymnast and silver medalist, has revealed that he is HIV-positive.

Olympic U.S. women’s soccer player Megan Rapinoe tells the Associated Press that coming out is "like a weight off my shoulders."

The "English Garden" cocktail is a twist on the classic and the "Purple Rain" is a colorful, tasty homage to the most reliable part of London’s weather.

There are more than 10,000 athletes competing at the London games, but when the gay website OutSports.com set out to count how many were openly gay, it came up with 23.

Karen Hultzer, an Olympic archer from South Africa, announced she was gay in order to become a role model for people who struggle with coming out of the closet and to combat homophobia in sports and in her homeland.

Who said sportswear can’t be chic? The athletes’ parade during Friday’s opening ceremony might as well have been a catwalk show, with some of fashion’s biggest names - Armani, Prada, Ralph Lauren, Stella McCartney - designing the team uniforms.

Women athletes like boxer Claressa "T-Rex" Shields give new meaning to the term girl power, as for the first year, female U.S. Olympians outnumber males.

An LGBT group & some sports experts are protesting the International Olympic Committee’s new controversial rules to test female athletes suspected of having high levels of testosterone.