In what ways did Sydney's Gay Gam revent the Atralian natn? In this paper I set out to exame this qutn by drawg upon the ia that sports and paras of athlet durg openg ceremoni have been five moments for the Atralian natn. I vtigate the social terras or bodysp voked by sportg gay pri durg the participants' para at the openg ceremony and sports venu of the Sydney 2002 Gay Gam. This enabl sights to whether the spac subverted the heteronormativy of sportg bodi that are metaphors for Atralian natnal space. I centre my argument wh a post-Fouuldian performance theory to nsir both lived experience and textual reprentatns of queer sports spac. This approach advot a recursive relatnship between power, disurse, and crilly reflexive, geographilly embedd subjects. The ethnographic basis of my fdgs is participant observatn and a time seri of -pth terviews wh over forty self-intifyg gay and queer mal livg Sydney. I extract two overarchg them om the bodysp of the gam: transcennce and imprisonment. For those actively volved the makg of mp bodysp, mimickg the monopoly of the domant orr through the thory of natnal signifitn provid by the para of athlet at openg ceremoni and by sportg bodi offered a transgrsive vehicle. However, the pillar of hetero- normative sportg bodi fg Atralian natnal boundari survived unchallenged. Sportg gay pri also worked to close rather than to open up a space for disurs about sexualy and natnal inty to occur. Closure om a mastream dience occurred by jettisong the shame that lks sport, sex, and bodi. Closure also occurred amongst certa rponnts who shunned the gam, regardg as disciplg bodi to `normalcy'.
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- GAY GAM VI RESULTS
- GAY GAM 2002
- GAY GAM UNR WAY SYDNEY
- WHY THE FIRST GAY OLYMPICS WAS A WATERSHED MOMENT SPORTS
- THE 2002 SYDNEY GAY GAM: RE-PRENTG "LBIAN" INTI THROUGH SPORTG SPACE
- WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE
- CATEGORY:GAY GAM 2002
- MICHAEL KIRBY: 'THERE WILL BE NO U-TURNS', GAY GAM VI, SYDNEY - 2002
GAY GAM VI RESULTS
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WHY THE FIRST GAY OLYMPICS WAS A WATERSHED MOMENT SPORTS
In this article poetic reprentatn qualative rearch is explored relatn to rearchg "lbian" liv. Set wh the ntext of The 2002 Sydney Gay Gam the article nsirs how poetry n brg to light experienc at the tersectn of sexualy, sport, and place. The article … * sydney 2002 gay games *
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THE 2002 SYDNEY GAY GAM: RE-PRENTG "LBIAN" INTI THROUGH SPORTG SPACE
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WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE
Kickg up their hight heels, thoands of participants om 77 untri have jogged, sttted, and danced a lorful pageant to mark the start of the Sydney 2002 Gay Gam.
The anizers gave regnn to the stggl of the gay activists of prev generatns and the impact of AIDS on the gay muny, wh pictur of such high-profile AIDS sualti as actor Rock Hudson and rock sger Freddie Mercury beg flashed on a giant TV screen. But flyg unr the banner "Participatn, Incln, and Personal Bt, " the Gay Gam--the sixth 20 years--is clearly a celebratn of sport. Mixg aerobics and same-sex ballroom dancg wh tradnal sports, anizers hope to draw 30, 000 people and AU$100 ln to Atralia's biggt cy, home to the 2000 Olympics and the flamboyant annual Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras.
" Some of the loust applse was heard for the small ntgent of Indian and Pakistani athlet, who opted to march together a show of gay solidary. Participants om untri which homosexual relatns are outlawed or otherwise proscribed, such as Sdi Arabia and Iraq, were also given a warm greetg.
CATEGORY:GAY GAM 2002
The Sydney Gay 2002 Gay Gam VI and Cultural Ftival will be held October/November this year wh an expected 14, 000 petors and 25, 000 ternatnal and terstate visors. The job of matchg procs starts July, so the faster you register, the better your chanc of securg your dream Gay Gam Volunteer role. All at MAG wish the Gay Gam Sydney much succs.
MICHAEL KIRBY: 'THERE WILL BE NO U-TURNS', GAY GAM VI, SYDNEY - 2002
You n ntact the Gay Gam Office on 9235 7074, or vis the Informatn Centre at 92 Oxford Street, Darlghurst, which is jt up om Crown Street, gog towards the Oxford Hotel; or vis their web se, as mentned above. Sger Ta Turner was the ma draw at the openg ceremony San Francis for the first Gay Gam 1982, but cy supervisor Doris Ward may have received the biggt reactn om the crowd.