German cy gets ready to host gay and lbian athlet om more than 70 untri for eighth quadrennial event
Contents:
- GAY GAM VIII RESULTS
- GAY GAM COLOGNE SET TO WELE 10,000 PETORS
- HISTORY OF THE GAY GAM
- WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE
- GAY GAM HISTORICAL RESULTS
GAY GAM VIII RESULTS
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Around 10, 000 gay and lbian athlet om around the globe are expected to scend on the wtern German cy of Cologne tomorrow to participate the ternatnal Gay Gam. "We want to monstrate that the excln of gays and lbians, pecially the sportg world, has to end, " said Thorsten Moeck, of the anisatn mtee. "While most participants e om Germany and the US, the list of untri reprented will also clu Sri Lanka, Sdi Arabia, the Uned Arab Emirat, Mexi and said for many, cludg Mexi's gay soccer team, whose inti have been liberately kept secret, would be a "unique opportuny" to be surround by fellow gays and lbians.
Eastern European sportsmen and women, om untri where discrimatn is more or ls systematic, have this year been ved to the event for Gay Gam first started San Francis 1982 and tak place every four years.
Its foundg father was the openly gay thlete Tom Wadll, who died of Aids year's host cy is home to Europe's largt gay and lbian sport club, SC Atralian Olympic gymnast Matthew Mcham, who won a gold medal at the Beijg Olympics 2008 and is one of the few major athlet to have ever e out, will open the event. "This event brgs gay and lbian life onto the soccer pch, the athletics track and to the swimmg pool, " he said.
GAY GAM COLOGNE SET TO WELE 10,000 PETORS
"This is a great opportuny for all gays and lbians to show the world that as a muny we're not a bunch of stereotyp.
HISTORY OF THE GAY GAM
Gay Gam. Gay Gam History.
Gay Gam IChallenge. Liv were changed, and was clear the Gay Gam would be held aga.
Gay Gam IITriumph '86.
WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE
Gay Gam IIICelebratn 1990. The third Gay Gam were the first to take place outsi the USA.
At the height of the AIDS crisis, the Gay Gam doubled size aga and ntued to serve as an spiratn. Gay Gam IVUny '94.
GAY GAM HISTORICAL RESULTS
Wh 31 sports, Gay Gam IV exceed the Olympics numbers of participants, and saw s first amic nference. Gay Gam VFriendship.
The Netherlands weled participants to the first European Gay Gam – yellow flags wh the tulip-and-triangle logo were everywhere.