Wele to the 'Gay Gam,' an Olympics alternative, where activism is enuraged and everyone's an athlete | CNN

Contents:

• HOW SOCHI BEME THE GAY OLYMPICS
• WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE
• GAY PORN GAM: FREE GAY SEX GAM ONLE
• GAY PARTI & EVENTS

HOW SOCHI BEME THE GAY OLYMPICS

However, this year’s Wter Gam will also be cemented history for s rerd number of openly LGBTQ least 35 of this year’s Olympic athlet are openly lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or queer, more than double the amount of queer petors om the 2018 wter petn PyeongChang, South Korea, acrdg to the LGBTQ sports webse Outsports. And Canadian soccer player Qun beme the first openly transgenr and nonbary athlete to w an Olympic medal — a gold — followg Team Canada’s feat of Swen the women’s fal last while Team USA will ga an Olympic first wh the addn of LeDuc, will also be losg some star 2018, etyle skier G Kenworthy and figure skater Adam Rippon ma history as the first openly gay men to pete the Wter Gam for the Uned Stat. Reflectg on his experience four years ago, Rippon — who is also the first openly gay athlete om the U.

Homosexualy has been legal Cha sce 1997, but recent years, the untry has worked to lim LGBTQ activism and 11 years operatn, Shanghai Pri nceled s annual LGBTQ celebratn 2020 and said — whout explanatn — that would no longer hold the event. And last week, the gay datg app Grdr was removed om several Che app stor after the untry’s cyberspace thory vowed to ensure a “healthy, ftive and spic onle environment” for the Lunar New Year, which began this week. A monstrator holds a rabow flag and the Rsian natnal flag durg a prott agast Rsia's anti-gay laws outsi the Rsian embassy Berl.

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

(Rters/Thomas Peter)In Augt 1982, 1, 350 athlet om 12 untri gathered San Francis for the first-ever Gay Gam. The Stonewall rts were more than a the past; a year earlier, reports had surfaced about rare pnmonia and ncer afflictg homosexuals New York and California—the first glimmers of what would later be lled AIDS. Tom Wadll, a gay Olympian who would die of AIDS five years later, told The New York Tim that he had anized the athletic petn to “pull the gay muny together globally.

”At the time, that gay muny found self vastly different circumstanc around the world.

GAY PORN GAM: FREE GAY SEX GAM ONLE

As the activist Greg Day wrote the program for the gural Gay Gam, the U.

GAY PARTI & EVENTS

Had “much to learn om Holland, Norway and France where there are natnal laws protectg the rights of Gay and Lbian cizens. ” “Direct ntact” wh athlet om the natns, Day argued, would be enlighteng for Amerins livg a untry where ternatnal visors were often nied entry bee of their sexual s later, sports are once aga stirrg to take stock of gay rights around the world.

Ultimately, the stlit Olympics history may be remembered for markg a perd which gay rights aren’t so much advancg globally as expandg certa parts of the world while regrsg or languishg 6, 000 athlet om 85 untri gather Sochi, the global gay-rights divi will be unmistakable. “The stat of LGBT rights globally is schizophrenic, ” Jsi Stern, executive director of the New York-based Internatnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn, tells me. But gay rights only me to the fore the summer of 2013, when the Rsian ernment, which crimalized homosexualy 1993, banned the dissematn of “propaganda of nontradnal sexual relatns” around children—makg more difficult for gay activists to operate and, rights groups allege, fuelg a rise anti-gay vlence the untry.

Around the same time, Print Vladimir Put signed another law prohibg gay and lbian upl foreign untri om adoptg Rsian children.