Tom Wadll, an athlete the 1968 Olympics, created the Gay Gam first held 1982 to celebrate LGBTQ cln. The Gay Gam are still held to this day wh the next round schled for 2022 Hong Kong.
Contents:
- HOMO FOR THE HOLIGAYS
- WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE
- ANTI-SEMISM NMNED, JEWS HONORED AND GAY PRI CELEBRATED BY OLYMPIA CY COUNCIL
HOMO FOR THE HOLIGAYS
Olympia, WA -- Governor Jay Inslee, upon requt om the Washgton State LGBTQ Commissn, signed the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Asexual, Aromantic, Queer, Two-Spir, Non-Bary, and Intersex Pri Month. Whereas, members of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, asexual, aromantic, queer, two-spir, non-bary, and tersex muni (LGBTQ) ntribute to our state’s succs and strengths a great number of immeasurable ways; and.
Whereas, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, asexual, aromantic, queer, two-spir, non-bary, and tersex Washgtonians ve all people to jo them durg the month of June celebratg the riliency and ntributns of the muny wh appropriate COVID-preutns and safety durg this ongog panmic;. Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Asexual, Aromantic, Queer, Two-Spir, Non-Bary, and Intersex Pri Month.
His gay and lbian iends San Francis, though, had never experienced an event as thrillg or movg as the openg ceremony.
WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE
And so Wadll created the Gay Gam – then lled the Gay Olympics, until the Internatnal Olympic Commtee sued over the name.
“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.
ANTI-SEMISM NMNED, JEWS HONORED AND GAY PRI CELEBRATED BY OLYMPIA CY COUNCIL
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. 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.
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.