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:
- 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
PARIS 2018 | Paris ville hôte s 10ème Gay Gam en 2018 * paris gay games *
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.
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.
THE PARIS GAY GAM PICTUR: ‘THE ATMOSPHERE IS REALLY ELECTRIC’
L 10e Gay Gam se sont achevés ce week-end : retour en imag sur l grands moments, avec un fal ht en ulr vant l'Hôtel Ville ! Et retrouvez l témoignag d'athlèt renntrés à Charléty et à l'Instut du judo. * paris gay games *
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.
WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE
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“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. And some of the participants hail om untri wh strict anti-gay laws, like Kenya, Sdi Arabia and Rsia.
GAY GAM X - PARIS 2018
Paris is the host of the 10th Gay Gam, takg place Aug. 4-12, 2018. * paris gay games *
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. The group received 1, 650 reports of homophobic acts 2017, a 5 percent rise om the prev year.
GAY GAM 10 PARIS 2018
The Gay Gam which are unr way Paris are not jt a chance to celebrate sport and diversy: they offer ccial rpe to gay athlet forced to hi their sexualy their home untri. * paris gay games *
But ’s still a stark remr of the persistence of homophobia France, said the group’s print, Joël Dmier.
HISTORY OF THE GAY GAM
” 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.
PARIS GAY GAM A RPE FOR OPPRSED ATHLET
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.
GAY GAM X RESULTS
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.
SHAWN ROHL, PH.D., CONDUCTS ENOMIC IMPACT STUDY OF PARIS 2018 GAY GAM
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 2018, THE LARGT INTERNATNAL LGBTQ SPORTG EVENT, IS FAST APPROACHG
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.