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Contents:

• GAY GAM : L TEMPS FORTS EN IMAG
• THE PARIS GAY GAM PICTUR: ‘THE ATMOSPHERE IS REALLY ELECTRIC’
• WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE
• GAY GAM X - PARIS 2018
• GAY GAM 10 PARIS 2018
• HISTORY OF THE GAY GAM
• PARIS GAY GAM A RPE FOR OPPRSED ATHLET
• GAY GAM X RESULTS
• SHAWN ROHL, PH.D., CONDUCTS ENOMIC IMPACT STUDY OF PARIS 2018 GAY GAM
• GAY GAM 2018, THE LARGT INTERNATNAL LGBTQ SPORTG EVENT, IS FAST APPROACHG

GAY GAM : L TEMPS FORTS EN IMAG

Sce 1982, the Gay Gam have brought together people om all walks of life, whout discrimatn, around the valu of diversy, rpect, equaly, solidary, and sharg.

THE PARIS GAY GAM PICTUR: ‘THE ATMOSPHERE IS REALLY ELECTRIC’

Wh sport beg a medium for togetherns and cln, the Gay Gam are OPEN TO ALL and offer everyone the opportuny to participate their own way.

As athlet, artists, supporters, spectators, donors, volunteers, nference participants, sponsors, or simply anyone terted this project, everyone has a role to play at the Gay Gam and help make thgs happen. Barulet/Agence France-Prse — Getty ImagThe 10th Gay Gam, an ternatnal sports event that bills self as the world’s largt and “most clive” — anyone n participate, even straight people — will e to a close on Sunday event has grown tremendoly sce s kickoff 1982 San Francis, where was origally advertised as the “Gay Olympics” by s founr, Dr. “The atmosphere is really electric, ” said Joanie Evans, a Brish nonprof worker and a -print of the Feratn of Gay Gam, which aniz the tournament.

Christophe Pet Tson/EPA, via ShutterstockThe Gam are tend to promote eedom and rights for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people. Organizers say the Gam are ccial bee of the discrimatn gay athlet face sports, on both the amatr and profsnal levels.

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

And some of the participants hail om untri wh strict anti-gay laws, like Kenya, Sdi Arabia and Rsia. Kev Mwachiro and Kelv Washiko, gay activists om Kenya, received scholarships to attend the event om the Feratn of Gay Gam and the Internatnal Front Runners, an L. Christophe Pet Tson/EPA, via Barulet/Agence France-Prse — Getty ImagThe petns take place stadiums and facili around Paris and Île--France, the broar Parisian regn, wh support om the ernment and major rporatns like Renlt and General also e amid a rise reports of homophobic acts France, acrdg to the group SOS Homophobie, which has operated an anonymo hotle to llect such acunts sce 1998.

GAY GAM X - PARIS 2018

The group received 1, 650 reports of homophobic acts 2017, a 5 percent rise om the prev year.

But ’s still a stark remr of the persistence of homophobia France, said the group’s print, Joël Dmier.

GAY GAM 10 PARIS 2018

” Barulet/Agence France-Prse — Getty ImagThis week, a plaque memoratg the executn of a gay uple 1750 was vandalized wh black pat and signs targetg gay parents. Christophe Pet Tson/EPA, via ShutterstockFrance legalized gay marriage 2013 amid large protts, but French law still blocks gay upl om pursug medilly assisted reproductn.

The Feratn of Gay Gam chose the lotn over 16 others, cludg Washgton and Guadalajara, Mexi. His gay and lbian iends San Francis, though, had never experienced an event as thrillg or movg as the openg ceremony.

HISTORY OF THE GAY GAM

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.

PARIS GAY GAM A RPE FOR OPPRSED ATHLET

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. 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.

GAY GAM X RESULTS

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.

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.

Though Wadll emphasized that sports weren’t the central foc of the Gay Gam, the event has hosted athlet wh real prows.

SHAWN ROHL, PH.D., CONDUCTS ENOMIC IMPACT STUDY OF PARIS 2018 GAY GAM

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.

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.

GAY GAM 2018, THE LARGT INTERNATNAL LGBTQ SPORTG EVENT, IS FAST APPROACHG

The upg Gay Gam will take place next year Hong Kong, where same-sex marriage is not legally regnized. 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. But if the last few s of eedom and fun at the Gam are any ditn, the Gay Gam will have a long, storied n.

Its goals were:To bat all forms of discrimatn, based on creria tablished by EU and French law, particular sexual orientatn and genr inty, To promote the regnn of the inty and eedoms of LGBT (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr) people the ntext and ethics of stggl related to promotg human rights and fundamental eedoms;To promot health cludg through rmatn and preventn on issu of STIs, HIV / AIDS, ncer, dopg, dg e, and other risks;To clu specific programs to make Gay Gam X accsible to the greatt number, cludg disadvantaged people or people wh special needs. Thanks to some robt fundraisg and a genero scholarship program, hundreds om highly unrserved untri and muni have been brought to the Gay Gam to wns “participatn, cln, and personal bt™” first-hand and see the llective power of those valu. As the world’s largt sports and cultural event open to all, the Gay Gam have created and nurtured a movement that has bee among the greatt forc for muny empowerment and social change.