Gay Gam

Contents:

• SPORTS AT THE GAY GAMES
• 10 THGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT THE GAY GAM, HEADG TO HONG KONG 2022
• DONATN GOAL FOR GAY GAM 11
• GAY GAM
• WHY THE FIRST GAY OLYMPICS WAS A WATERSHED MOMENT SPORTS

SPORTS AT THE GAY GAMES

The LGBTQ+ sports movement that was large part created by the Gay Gam 1982 ntu between the quadrennial sports and culture ftival. The Feratn of Gay Gam wel athlet om every sport to search the pag, where they will fd rmatn about their sport, offer their own ntributns to the velopment of petive opportuni for their sport, and work wh fellow athlet so that the range of LGBTQ+ sport n ntue to grow and reflect society as a whole.

10 THGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT THE GAY GAM, HEADG TO HONG KONG 2022

To fd out what sports you n participate at the upg Gay Gam 11 - Hong Kong (postponed until 2023), click HERE. September 2021: The Feratn of Gay Gam (FGG) and Gay Gam 11 Hong Kong (GGHK) jotly release their updated Genr Policy to make the Gam more clive. 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. 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.

DONATN GOAL FOR GAY GAM 11

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.

GAY GAM

Powerlifter Chris Man began his reer at the Gay Gam and went on to w another 30 medals at var world champnships.

WHY THE FIRST GAY OLYMPICS WAS A WATERSHED MOMENT SPORTS

And unlike the “regular Olympics,” at the Gay Gam, a same-sex figurg skatg pair n don matchg nim jumpsus a performance set to “Hopelsly Devoted to You.” A trans basketball star om Uganda, where same-sex activy is still crimalized, n lead his team to victory. Wadll died of AIDS 1987, one year after the send Gay Gam, but the Gam and his dream for their impact have only grown sce. Participatn the Gay Gam steadily grew every year was held, and 1994, at the New York Gay Gam, the number of participants exceed the number of athlet at the 1994 Wter Olympics.

The openg ceremony of the Gay Gam is still emotnal all the years later, Pl said, pecially when participants om untri where homosexualy is not accepted march the Para of Natns.