The 11th Gay Gam will take place Hong Kong next year, four s after a former US thlete-turned-physician's dreams of a tly clive sportg event beme realy.
Contents:
- LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH: THE HISTORY OF THE GAY GAM - THE EVENT THAT GREW BUT STUCK TO S PRCIPL
- WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE
- TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE THE CROWD ROOM DEFEND BY FANS
LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH: THE HISTORY OF THE GAY GAM - THE EVENT THAT GREW BUT STUCK TO S PRCIPL
* bbc news gay games *
Synchronised swimmg is among 36 sports nfirmed for the 2022 Gay Gam Hong KongThe Gay Gam is the world's largt all-clive sportg event but many athlet face an uncerta journey towards Fzgerald has been swimmg sce he was five years old and says he knows he's "probably been gay sce about the same time" he didn't know how to tell his lol pool what he was trag for.
"When I told the manager I was preparg for my first Gay Gam, I was fearful they'd say: 'OK, we really don't want you practisg here, you n leave, '" says Fzgerald om his home Vanuver. "The club were supportive, and was the start of a long associatn wh the Gay Gam for Fzgerald. He is now the -print of s anisg body, the Feratn of the Gay Gam (FGG).
The LGBT Sport podst - The one on the history of the Gay GamFor nearly 40 years, the FGG has brought people om around the world together for a quadrennial celebratn of LGBT+ sport and culture.
WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE
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. * bbc news gay games *
But to unrstand the origs of the Gam, you have to go back to 1982 - and the dream of one Amerin bids to host 2018 Gay Gam'You have people om untri where 's crimal to be LGBT+'Tom Wadll was the founr of the Gay Gam, and had peted the Olympic thlon for the USATom Wadll loved New Jersey, he went to llege on a track scholarship - and reprented the Uned Stat the thlon at the 1968 Olympics Mexi Cy, where he fished sixth. Inially, he had hoped to stage a 'Gay Olympics' - but an junctn om the US Olympic Commtee over the e of the word 'Olympic' meant he had to e 'Gay Gam' while the name changed, Wadll's ia remaed the same - to provi an clive, multi-sport event that was open to all petors, regardls of sexualy.
TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE THE CROWD ROOM DEFEND BY FANS
Wadll did not want the Gay Gam to be a petor or alternative to the Olympics, but wanted to apply the ethos of the Olympics to an event where people of all sexuali and abili uld pete, a style that mirrored the stcture of the Olympics.
A total of 1, 350 people took part the first Gay Gam 1982.
But by this pot, the event he'd created was well tablished - and gettg bigger wh each passg 2013, then-Deputy Prime Mister Nick Clegg lent his support to London's unsuccsful bid to host the 2018 Gay Gam - and 2014, then-US Print Barack Obama rerd a vio msageexternal-lk to wele petors to the Gam Oh. The Gay Gam had achieved a sle that few volved the origal event uld ever have imaged. "'It felt fiant to say: No, I'm not gog to be ightened' New York hosted the 1994 Gay GamNo two Gay Gam feel the the Olympics, each host cy brgs s own style and flavour to the event.