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The 2023 edn of WorldPri, a large and fast-growg LGBTIQ+ event which some ll the ‘gay Olympics’, is g to Atralia.

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And Paris, athlet will have the opportuny to speak out about jtic, cludg homophobia, transphobia and other issu facg the LGBTQ muny sports. Raven Snrs, the gay shot putter who won a silver medal Tokyo, famoly held her arms an “X” on the medal podium as a monstratn for which she faced potential repercsns. Hostg the Gam Paris, wh s rich gay history and regnn of same-sex marriag France, uld certaly help that number.

His gay and lbian iends San Francis, though, had never experienced an event as thrillg or movg as the openg ceremony. And so Wadll created the Gay Gam – then lled the Gay Olympics, until the Internatnal Olympic Commtee sued over the name.

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More than 160 openly lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer athlet are due to participate the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, makg this year's Gam the most clive ever. * gay olympics 2024 *

“The formula for succs was visibily and inty,” Wadll said an terview followg the first Gay Gam 1982. That’s what the first Gay Gam were all about.”. Wadll died 1987, but the Gay Gam ntue to this day, growg to an ternatnal phenomenon sce their first eratn.

They draw over 10,000 athlet and sometim seven or eight tim as many spectators, said Shiv Pl, vice print of external relatns for the Feratn of Gay Gam. You don’t have to be a profsnal athlete – even a proficient one – to pete the Gay Gam. You don’t even have to be gay.

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LGBTQ Olympians om around the world will pete the Wter Olympics. Get to know the gay, lbian, bi, trans and queer athlet of the 2022 Gam. * gay olympics 2024 *

And unlike at the Olympics, activism is enuraged at the Gay Gam, as has been sce the begng when the HIV/AIDS crisis was ravagg LGBTQ muni.

'THE GAY OLYMPICS': SYDNEY WS BID TO HOST 2023 WORLDPRI EVENTTHE 2023 EDN OF WORLDPRI, A LARGE AND FAST-GROWG LGBTIQ+ EVENT WHICH SOME LL THE ‘GAY OLYMPICS’, IS G TO ATRALIA.PARTICIPANTS TAKG PART THE 41ST ANNUAL GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS PARA SYDNEY, 2 MARCH 2019. SOURCE: AAPSYDNEY HAS WON S BID TO HOST THE 2023 EDN OF WORLDPRI, AN TERNATNAL LGBTIQA+ PRI EVENT DUBBED BY SOME AS THE “GAY OLYMPICS”.THE BIENNIAL WORLDPRI FTIVAL – AN TERNATNAL PROMOTN OF LGBTIQ+ ISSU VIA PARAS, FTIVALS AND OTHER CULTURAL ACTIVI - WILL BE HELD OVER FEBARY AND MARCH TO CI WH THE 2023 SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS.SYDNEY, WHICH WILL BEE THE FIRST CY THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE TO HOST THE EVENT, WAS ANNOUNCED AS THE SUCCSFUL BIDR AT A CEREMONY ATHENS ON SUNDAY, BEATG HOTON AND MONTREAL.SYDNEY WON 60 PER CENT OF VOT OM MEMBERS OF INTERPRI, THE UMBRELLA GROUP FOR TERNATNAL PRI EVENTS.THE 41ST ANNUAL GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS PARA SYDNEY, SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 2019 SOURCE: AAPTHE SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS WAS PART OF THE BID TO BRG THE EVENT TO THE NEW SOUTH WAL PAL AND HAILED THE SUCCS AS A “MAJOR W” FOR SYDNEY, ATRALIA AND THE ASIA PACIFIC REGN.“BRGG WORLDPRI DOWN UNR MEANS WE N CELEBRATE AND SHE A SPOTLIGHT ON THE UNIQUE CHALLENG FACED BY THE LGBTQI MUNY THE REGN,” -CHAIR GVANNI CAMPOLO-ARCIDIA SAID.THE 80-PAGE EVENT BID SCRIBED THE ASIA PACFIC REGN AS "ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST DIVERSE"."[IT] IS HOME TO 60 PER CENT OF THE WORLD’S POPULATN, YET TOO OFTEN OVERLOOKED AND UNR-REPRENTED. THE VAST MAJORY OF LGBTIQ+ MUNI WH THIS REGN ARE NIED FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS,"  READ.TOURISM MISTER SIMON BIRMGHAM WAS ONE OF MANY PEOPLE POLICS TO WELE NEWS OF THE WNG BID."IT IS ABSOLUTELY FTG THAT ATRALIA AND PARTICULARLY SYDNEY CELEBRATE OUR DIVERSY THROUGH SUCH A SYMBOLIC EVENT THAT WILL ALSO LIVER A HUGE BOOST TO OUR TOURISM DTRY," HE SAID.NSW ARTS MISTER DON HARW SAID THE EVENT WILL “ATTRACT THOANDS OF TERNATNAL VISORS AND PUT SYDNEY ON THE WORLD MAP AS A TLY CLIVE AND UNED GLOBAL CY.”SYDNEY LORD MAYOR CLOVER MOORE AND LABOR MP TANYA PLIBERSEK, THE LATTER OF WHOM HOLDS THE FERAL SEAT OF SYDNEY, BOTH WELED THE NEWS ON SOCIAL MEDIA.SHARE2 M READPUBLISHED 20 OCTOBER 2019 9:05PMUPDATED 20 OCTOBER 2019 9:29PMBY EVAN YOUNGSOURCE: SBS NEWSTAGSATRALIASHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHARETOPICS

Above all, though, the Gay Gam are an event for queer and trans people to gather safely, play sports they love and be themselv whout fear of tolerance. The first Gay Gam were held San Francis 1982, where transmissn of HIV had peaked among the cy’s btlg gay muny.

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