Rio 2016: The Daily Beast slammed for outing gay athletes using dating app Grindr

The Daily Beast, a US based website, created a controversy for itself after it published an article by one of their reporters on Thursday on finding gay athletes through the phone app Grindr at the Olympic village. 

Calling it an 'expose', the article 'I got three Grindr dates in an hour in the Olympic village' outed the sexuality of the athletes participating in Rio 2016. The article was about how easy it was to hook up with a gay Olympian.

According to yahoo news, the reporter Nico Hines, put at risk the privacy of athletes' as only 48 out of the total 10,500 participants are reportedly LGBT. The article also mentions not only the nationality of one of the players who comes from a country with reported violence against their homosexual community but also mentioned his height and weight. 

After the outrage from all over the world, the article was finally taken down on Thursday night, the URL of which now has a note from the editor apologising to the Rio athletes for causing any harm to them by exposing their privacy.

Swimmer Amini Fonua blasted at Daily Beast on Twitter, saying that no straight person would ever know the pain of revealing the truth. He asked for shaming of the reporter as well as the website for endangering people's lives at the village. 

Here are the tweets: 

As an out gay athlete from a country that is still very homophobic, @thedailybeast ought to be ashamed #deplorable https://t.co/qzS9rDFJwx

— Amini Fonua (@AminiFonua) August 11, 2016

Imagine the one space you can feel safe, the one space you're able to be yourself, ruined by a straight person who thinks it's all a joke?

— Amini Fonua (@AminiFonua) August 11, 2016

No straight person will ever know the pain of revealing your truth, to take that away is just... I can't. It literally brings me to tears

— Amini Fonua (@AminiFonua) August 11, 2016

It is still illegal to be gay in Tonga, and while I'm strong enough to be me in front of the world, not everybody else is. Respect that.

— Amini Fonua (@AminiFonua) August 11, 2016

Shame this inhumane CREEP who thought it'd be funny to endanger people's lives in the village @NicoHines pic.twitter.com/5TTom3i9c6

— Amini Fonua (@AminiFonua) August 11, 2016

Yo @nicohines & thedailybeast - if what you were looking for on Grindr was hot ass (and I don't… https://t.co/xPLFA0YD7i

— Amini Fonua (@AminiFonua) August 12, 2016

Thank you for the amazing support! We were successful in defeating ignorance with truth & honesty; #strengthinnumbers #pride 

— Amini Fonua (@AminiFonua) August 12, 2016