{"id":87227,"date":"2022-01-02T23:17:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T07:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=87227"},"modified":"2022-01-02T23:17:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T07:17:26","slug":"international-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/01\/02\/international-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"International Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elsewhere in international news, Switzerland has made a bold move.&nbsp; As of January 1<sup>st<\/sup>, they are allowing people to legally change their gender by filing a form with the civil registry office.&nbsp; No proof, examination, or medical procedure is required.&nbsp; They are also allowing people to change their legal name just as easily.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Louw Breytenbach <\/strong>is giving up his title of <strong><em>Mr. Gay World <\/em><\/strong>after less than two months.&nbsp; The 31-year-old from South Africa refused to sign a contract making the organization his exclusive modeling and acting agent (apparently Louw already has management).&nbsp; There was also a clause stating that he would be fined 5,000 Euros if he stepped down.&nbsp; \u201cI am disappointed as I really thought the <em>Mr. Gay World <\/em>competition was a platform I could use to broaden my charity work.&nbsp; I also thought they had the interests of the LGBTQI+ community at heart.&nbsp; Sadly, I was wrong.\u201d&nbsp; He also questioned what happens to the money the organization raises.&nbsp; Hmm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\" alt=\"colorbar1\" width=\"500\" height=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Grindr <\/em>has allegedly been selling user data to various advertising firms.&nbsp; SHOCKING!&nbsp; But this time, they are being fined over $6 million \u2013 by the <em>Norwegian Data Protection Authority<\/em>!&nbsp; And that\u2019s not the only data <em>Grindr <\/em>is sharing.&nbsp; According to their statistics, the United States has the highest percentage of users looking to hook up \u201cRight Now\u201d.&nbsp; Australians are the most receptive to NSFW photos.&nbsp; If you\u2019re looking for a top, book a flight to Argentina pronto.&nbsp; Lastly, the best time to hook up is 9PM on Sunday\u2026the day of rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elsewhere in international news, Switzerland has made a bold move.&nbsp; As of January 1st, they are allowing people to legally change their gender by filing a form with the civil registry office.&nbsp; No proof, examination, or medical procedure is required.&nbsp; They are also allowing people to change their legal name just as easily. Louw Breytenbach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87228,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87227\/revisions\/87228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}