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• WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE
• THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 39 GAY OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS. HERE’S THE LIST
• '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 LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOU
• GAY GAM NAME MEXI A SEND HOST FOR 2023 WHILE STICKG WH HONG KONG

WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE

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. “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.

THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 39 GAY OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS. HERE’S THE LIST

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. The Gay Gam uld be an act of prott then, too, Wadll cid, an event durg which LGBTQ people uld play the same sports they watched durg the Olympics and achieve the same kd of glory he had at the 1968 Olympics.

'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 LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOU

HIV/AIDS awarens has been baked to the Gay Gam sce s ceptn: In addn to banng discrimatn based on genr, sexualy, race and other tras, the Gay Gam wouldn’t allow any participant to be turned away based on their HIV stat. The Gay Gam also succsfully lobbied the US ernment to briefly waive a prev ban on HIV-posive people enterg the untry so they uld pete the 1994 Gay Gam New York and the 1996 Olympics Atlanta, chang ma wh the help of the US Olympic Commtee.

Anyone n participate the Gay Gam – really, jt about anyone. Though Wadll emphasized that sports weren’t the central foc of the Gay Gam, the event has hosted athlet wh real prows. Swimmer Jim Ballard set a world rerd the 100-meter backstroke 2002 at the Sydney Gay Gam.

Powerlifter Chris Man began his reer at the Gay Gam and went on to w another 30 medals at var world champnships.

GAY GAM NAME MEXI A SEND HOST FOR 2023 WHILE STICKG WH HONG KONG

And unlike the “regular Olympics, ” at the Gay Gam, a same-sex figurg skatg pair n don matchg nim jumpsus a performance set to “Hopelsly Devoted to You. The upg Gay Gam will take place next year Hong Kong, where same-sex marriage is not legally regnized. The openg ceremony of the first Gay Gam was the stuff of Wadll’s dreams.

Wadll died of AIDS 1987, one year after the send Gay Gam, but the Gam and his dream for their impact have only grown sce. Participatn the Gay Gam steadily grew every year was held, and 1994, at the New York Gay Gam, the number of participants exceed the number of athlet at the 1994 Wter Olympics. The 11th Gay Gam, to be held next year Hong Kong, will likely see at least 10, 000 participants.

The openg ceremony of the Gay Gam is still emotnal all the years later, Pl said, pecially when participants om untri where homosexualy is not accepted march the Para of Natns.