Raw and uneded clips of the 1982 Gay Gam closg ceremony, cludg performanc, speech, and a para of the Zane Blaney papers...
Contents:
- 10 THGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT THE GAY GAM, HEADG TO HONG KONG 2022
- MARATHON AND CEREMONY BRG GAY GAM TO CLOSE
- HISTORY OF THE GAY GAM
- WHY THE FIRST GAY OLYMPICS WAS A WATERSHED MOMENT SPORTS
- A WEEK ABOUT GAY PRIDE, AND PREJUDICE
- 1982 GAY GAM CLOSG CEREMONY (1)
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
10 THGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT THE GAY GAM, HEADG TO HONG KONG 2022
Josh Miller and Theo Edmonds share their photography and experienc om this summer's Gay Gam Paris. * gay games closing ceremony *
While November 2022 may seem far off, LGBTQ athlet the world over are trag and workg hard ahead of the Gay Gam’ 11th stallment, set to take place Hong Kong. Tom Wadll — who himself was an Olympian, havg peted the 1968 Mexi Cy Olympic Gam and placg sixth the thlon — found the Gay Gam, a sports petn moled after the Olympic Gam. Takg place every four years and welg athlet om nearly 100 untri, the Gay Gam have que a legacy, and tertg facts about the ternatnal sportg event abound.
Vanuver, New York, Amsterdam, Sydney, Chigo, Cologne, Cleveland and Akron have all played host for the Gay Gam, wh the most recent eratn — Gay Gam X — takg place Paris 2018.
MARATHON AND CEREMONY BRG GAY GAM TO CLOSE
* gay games closing ceremony *
Back 1982, the Gay Gam saw athlet pete a number of sports — basketball, billiards, bowlg, cyclg, divg, golf, marathon, physique, powerliftg, soccer, softball, swimmg, tennis, track and field, volleyball and wrtlg — but e 2022, the total number of sports have reached 36.
HISTORY OF THE GAY GAM
In every prev eratn of the Gay Gam there have been Cafés Philosophiqu, which are basilly nferenc and panel discsns on topics of tert to the LGBTQ muny. At the Paris Gay Gam 2018, topics vered how sports n bat discrimatn and sports as a source of well-beg and health. The Internatnal Rabow Memorial Run opens every Gay Gam week, and there’s typilly a slew of programmg at the Gay Gam ftival village and venu throughout the cy.
WHY THE FIRST GAY OLYMPICS WAS A WATERSHED MOMENT SPORTS
Here’s a historil tidb you may not know: Back 1982, when Ta Turner was attemptg to rurrect her reer as a solo artist (havg prevly performed wh her ex-hband Ike), she performed at the openg ceremony of the 1982 Gay Gam Goln Gate Park.
A WEEK ABOUT GAY PRIDE, AND PREJUDICE
In 1994, the Gay Gam me to New York Cy memoratn of the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprisg, and Sir Ian McKellen gave the closg addrs at Yankee Stadium.
In 2014, Print Barack Obama opened the 2014 Cleveland+Akron Gay Gam wh a pre-rerd vio welg athlet om around the world to the gam. Ahead of very first Gay Gam 1982, the event was lled the “Gay Olympics, ” which ed the Uned Stat Olympic Commtee to sue Wadll and his anizatn.
1982 GAY GAM CLOSG CEREMONY (1)
Jt 19 days before those very first gam were to take place, the Olympic Commtee secured an junctn, but stead of ncelg the gam, they went forward unr a new name — the Gay Gam — and were a huge succs. The very first Gay Gam is said to have brought 1, 350 athlet om 11 untri to San Francis, but the roster of athlet who pete the days is signifintly larger.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
Hor has long thrown s support behd the Gay Gam, but for the upg 11th eratn, Hor CEO Christof Wtig has taken a personal role guaranteeg the event’s succs, actg as Director of Fundraisg for the Hong Kong gam. It’s jt another way Hor, the world’s leadg gay social work wh 25 ln ers worldwi, supports the greater LGBTQ muny.