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DONATN GOAL FOR GAY GAM 11
The Gay Gam and s ternatnal Feratn exist to serve the needs of athlet, artists, and advot.
Participatg the Gay Gam has been a life-changg experience for thoands om all walks of life. 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, Incln, 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. We Are Global - Gay Gam Change The World. The ternatnal Feratn of Gay Gam (FGG) is the global erng body for the quadrennial Gay Gam, the world’s largt sports and cultural event open to all.
SPORTS AT THE GAY GAMES
The FGG is rponsible for oversight and ensurg the ntued productn of the Gay Gam. Sce 1982, the quadrennial Gay Gam have taken or will take place seven untri, selected by the Assembly an extensive procs, cludg Hong Kong 2023.
The thoands of participants the Gay Gam have e om more than 100 untri, and marketg materials are regularly produced multiple languag (eight and untg). Tom Wadll after his experienc at the 1968 Olympic Gam Mexi Cy, there n be ltle doubt that “Gay Gam Change The World.
The FGG rais funds to brg people to the Gay Gam.
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Sce 1986, Gay Gam Scholarships have been award to nearly 1, 000 unrfund dividuals om 70 untri, providg a life-changg week of acceptance and enuragement that the recipients would never have experienced otherwise.
The Gay Gam has also given back to non-prof anizatns host ci, leavg lastg legaci, most recently followg Gay Gam IX Cleveland + Akron 2014 and the Paris Gay Gam 2018. Addnal gifts to FGG member anizatns are the “Red Books” that ern the tails of Gay Gam sports and cultural events.
The Gay Gam change the world by challengg sports bodi, media, and ernments to create more opportuni for athlet regardls of genr, age, abily, or physil challenge. Notable exampl are areas such as: A breakthrough transgenred cln policy that the Olympics and others now follow; Great expansn women’s sports, where the Gay Gam offered multiple wrtlg weight class for women 10 years before the Olympics; Welg of participants wh HIV / AIDS, who regularly achieve their personal bt; Anti-dopg polici that enable athlet on meditn to participate the Gay Gam; To addrs the needs of younger and olr participants (some of whom have been g to the Gay Gam sce 1982), multiple age-based tegori have been created more than 14 sports.