Wele to the 'Gay Gam,' an Olympics alternative, where activism is enuraged and everyone's an athlete | CNN

Contents:

• THIS OUT GAY OLYMPIAN SAYS ’S A RELIEF TO PETE WHOUT HIDG HER SEXUALY
• WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE
• IS BADMTON CONSIRED A GIRLY AND GAY SPORT?

THIS OUT GAY OLYMPIAN SAYS ’S A RELIEF TO PETE WHOUT HIDG HER SEXUALY

Gilmour, who’s badmton’s hight-ranked out gay player at No. “I thk Asian untri are makg huge stris, wh Taiwan beg one of the first untri to legalize gay marriage, ” she said. 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.

That’s what the first Gay Gam were all about. Wadll died 1987, but the Gay Gam ntue to this day, growg to an ternatnal phenomenon sce their first eratn.

WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE

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. You don’t even have to be gay.

IS BADMTON CONSIRED A GIRLY AND GAY SPORT?

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.

The first Gay Gam were held San Francis 1982, where transmissn of HIV had peaked among the cy’s btlg gay muny.