The first Gay Gam Asia should have been a showpiece, money-spng event for Hong Kong. That's not how 's turned out.
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HOW COVID-19 DERAILED THE 2022 GAY GAM BEFORE THEY EVEN BEGAN
The Gay Gam is a worldwi sport and cultural event that promot sexual diversy, featurg lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) athlet and artists. Found as the "Gay Olympics", was started the Uned Stat San Francis, California, 1982, as the brachild of Olympic thlete (Mexi Cy 1968) and medil doctor Tom Wadll. Hong Kong was announced as the host cy of the 11th Gay Gam 2022 at a gala event Paris on October 30, 2017. It won wh a clear majory of vot, the first round of votg. The event was layed until 2023 due to the ronavis panmic. It is the first time that the Gay Gam will be held Asia * gay games 2022 *
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. 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.
You don’t have to be a profsnal athlete – even a proficient one – to pete the 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.