"The Sydney 2002 Gay Gam and queryg Atralian natnal space" by Gordon R. Wat

Contents:

• RNGAY GAM ABOUT 'VISIBILY AND CLN': ATRALIAN ATHLET ON THEIR IMPORTANCE, THEN AND NOW
• WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE
• WHY THE FIRST GAY OLYMPICS WAS A WATERSHED MOMENT SPORTS
• HISTORY OF THE GAY GAM
• HISTORY OF THE GAY GAM
• 'THE GAY OLYMPICS': SYDNEY WS BID TO HOST 2023 WORLDPRI EVENTTHE 2023 EDN OF WORLDPRI, A LARGE AND FAST-GROWG LGBTIQ+ EVENT WHICH SOME LL THE ‘GAY OLYMPICS’, IS G TO ATRALIA.PARTICIPANTS TAKG PART THE 41ST ANNUAL GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS PARA SYDNEY, 2 MARCH 2019. SOURCE: AAPSYDNEY HAS WON S BID TO HOST THE 2023 EDN OF WORLDPRI, AN TERNATNAL LGBTIQA+ PRI EVENT DUBBED BY SOME AS THE “GAY OLYMPICS”.THE BIENNIAL WORLDPRI FTIVAL – AN TERNATNAL PROMOTN OF LGBTIQ+ ISSU VIA PARAS, FTIVALS AND OTHER CULTURAL ACTIVI - WILL BE HELD OVER FEBARY AND MARCH TO CI WH THE 2023 SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS.SYDNEY, WHICH WILL BEE THE FIRST CY THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE TO HOST THE EVENT, WAS ANNOUNCED AS THE SUCCSFUL BIDR AT A CEREMONY ATHENS ON SUNDAY, BEATG HOTON AND MONTREAL.SYDNEY WON 60 PER CENT OF VOT OM MEMBERS OF INTERPRI, THE UMBRELLA GROUP FOR TERNATNAL PRI EVENTS.THE 41ST ANNUAL GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS PARA SYDNEY, SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 2019 SOURCE: AAPTHE SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS WAS PART OF THE BID TO BRG THE EVENT TO THE NEW SOUTH WAL PAL AND HAILED THE SUCCS AS A “MAJOR W” FOR SYDNEY, ATRALIA AND THE ASIA PACIFIC REGN.“BRGG WORLDPRI DOWN UNR MEANS WE N CELEBRATE AND SHE A SPOTLIGHT ON THE UNIQUE CHALLENG FACED BY THE LGBTQI MUNY THE REGN,” -CHAIR GVANNI CAMPOLO-ARCIDIA SAID.THE 80-PAGE EVENT BID SCRIBED THE ASIA PACFIC REGN AS "ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST DIVERSE"."[IT] IS HOME TO 60 PER CENT OF THE WORLD’S POPULATN, YET TOO OFTEN OVERLOOKED AND UNR-REPRENTED. THE VAST MAJORY OF LGBTIQ+ MUNI WH THIS REGN ARE NIED FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS,"  READ.TOURISM MISTER SIMON BIRMGHAM WAS ONE OF MANY PEOPLE POLICS TO WELE NEWS OF THE WNG BID."IT IS ABSOLUTELY FTG THAT ATRALIA AND PARTICULARLY SYDNEY CELEBRATE OUR DIVERSY THROUGH SUCH A SYMBOLIC EVENT THAT WILL ALSO LIVER A HUGE BOOST TO OUR TOURISM DTRY," HE SAID.NSW ARTS MISTER DON HARW SAID THE EVENT WILL “ATTRACT THOANDS OF TERNATNAL VISORS AND PUT SYDNEY ON THE WORLD MAP AS A TLY CLIVE AND UNED GLOBAL CY.”SYDNEY LORD MAYOR CLOVER MOORE AND LABOR MP TANYA PLIBERSEK, THE LATTER OF WHOM HOLDS THE FERAL SEAT OF SYDNEY, BOTH WELED THE NEWS ON SOCIAL MEDIA.SHARE2 M READPUBLISHED 20 OCTOBER 2019 9:05PMUPDATED 20 OCTOBER 2019 9:29PMBY EVAN YOUNGSOURCE: SBS NEWSTAGSATRALIASHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOU
• GAY GAM VI RESULTS
• FERATN OF GAY GAM

RNGAY GAM ABOUT 'VISIBILY AND CLN': ATRALIAN ATHLET ON THEIR IMPORTANCE, THEN AND NOW

The very first queer character to appear an Atralian-ma vio game was Big Gay Al, the 2000 racg game South Park Rally. (Supplied: Universy of Sydney)Ho told ABC Arts that the gam, ma primarily by queer signers, "centre the [queer] characters as the ma quts; so if you were to remove the lead protagonist, who happens to be a lbian, om the game, then the game will pletely lose s plot" stands sharp ntrast to the "bury your gays" narrative trope, by which queer characters are treated as expendable. "Hard Lads Yang wrote on his blog: "I hereby clare Brish Lads H Each Other Wh Chair to be Gay Culture.

Tāmaki Makr/Auckland-based Amerin artist, wrer and gam veloper Robert Yang mak "extremely gay gam, " says Ho. "When he saw that vio, he was like, this is the epome of 'It's so straight, 's basilly gay'.

The Beat is a turn-based narrative puter game which you play a closeted gay p tryg to solve the murr of a gay Beat's story is fictnal but was spired by the unsolved murrs of gay men Sydney om the 1970s-90s, the 1972 murr Alai of gay amic Gee Dunn, and the police's alleged difference to or plicy those ed photogrammetry (snng photos of signifint real-life plac) to create the game's backdrops. The first-ever Gay Gam was held San Francis 1982, the midst of the AIDS epimic and at a time when homosexualy was still a crime parts of Atralia. Fast-forward 36 years and gay marriage is legal Atralia and the US — and the 10th Gay Gam is kickg off B Todd rells the first Gam well.

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

Athlet durg the 2002 Gay Gam, which were held Sydney(Getty Imag: Jonathan Wood)Mr Todd says petg the Gam was an act of prott agast the treatment of LGBTIQ people — cludg the e of aversn therapi. "My personal outrage about beg subject to this torture masqueradg as treatment was transformed to the activism exprsed the participatn of [the first] Gay Gam, " Mr Todd Todd returned home triumphant — but then had to al wh the aftermath of g out such a public way.

"That's how my fay found out about my homosexualy, much to the shock of many, " he said. Dared to participate this Gay Gam then my rignatn would be required when I returned to Atralia, " he said. "The Gam had ially been lled the Gay Olympics, but the name was challenged the Supreme Court.

"The Uned Stat Olympic Commtee obtaed an junctn om the Supreme Court to prohib the e of the sacred word Olympic relatn to the Gay Gam, " Mr Todd of the publicy material for the gam was quickly changed, removg the word Olympic.

WHY THE FIRST GAY OLYMPICS WAS A WATERSHED MOMENT SPORTS

Visibily and clnAtralian Danielle Warby is currently Paris, where she will pete her send Gay Gam. "The Paris Gay Gam began Saturday ns for eight days, wh athlet om more than 90 untri petg 36 4 Aug 2018Sat 4 Aug 2018 at 2:00am, updated 4 Aug 2018Sat 4 Aug 2018 at 2:48pm.

His gay and lbian iends San Francis, though, had never experienced an event as thrillg or movg as the openg ceremony.

HISTORY OF THE GAY GAM

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.

HISTORY OF THE GAY GAM

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.

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 GAY OLYMPICS': SYDNEY WS BID TO HOST 2023 WORLDPRI EVENTTHE 2023 EDN OF WORLDPRI, A LARGE AND FAST-GROWG LGBTIQ+ EVENT WHICH SOME LL THE ‘GAY OLYMPICS’, IS G TO ATRALIA.PARTICIPANTS TAKG PART THE 41ST ANNUAL GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS PARA SYDNEY, 2 MARCH 2019. SOURCE: AAPSYDNEY HAS WON S BID TO HOST THE 2023 EDN OF WORLDPRI, AN TERNATNAL LGBTIQA+ PRI EVENT DUBBED BY SOME AS THE “GAY OLYMPICS”.THE BIENNIAL WORLDPRI FTIVAL – AN TERNATNAL PROMOTN OF LGBTIQ+ ISSU VIA PARAS, FTIVALS AND OTHER CULTURAL ACTIVI - WILL BE HELD OVER FEBARY AND MARCH TO CI WH THE 2023 SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS.SYDNEY, WHICH WILL BEE THE FIRST CY THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE TO HOST THE EVENT, WAS ANNOUNCED AS THE SUCCSFUL BIDR AT A CEREMONY ATHENS ON SUNDAY, BEATG HOTON AND MONTREAL.SYDNEY WON 60 PER CENT OF VOT OM MEMBERS OF INTERPRI, THE UMBRELLA GROUP FOR TERNATNAL PRI EVENTS.THE 41ST ANNUAL GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS PARA SYDNEY, SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 2019 SOURCE: AAPTHE SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS WAS PART OF THE BID TO BRG THE EVENT TO THE NEW SOUTH WAL PAL AND HAILED THE SUCCS AS A “MAJOR W” FOR SYDNEY, ATRALIA AND THE ASIA PACIFIC REGN.“BRGG WORLDPRI DOWN UNR MEANS WE N CELEBRATE AND SHE A SPOTLIGHT ON THE UNIQUE CHALLENG FACED BY THE LGBTQI MUNY THE REGN,” -CHAIR GVANNI CAMPOLO-ARCIDIA SAID.THE 80-PAGE EVENT BID SCRIBED THE ASIA PACFIC REGN AS "ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST DIVERSE"."[IT] IS HOME TO 60 PER CENT OF THE WORLD’S POPULATN, YET TOO OFTEN OVERLOOKED AND UNR-REPRENTED. THE VAST MAJORY OF LGBTIQ+ MUNI WH THIS REGN ARE NIED FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS,"  READ.TOURISM MISTER SIMON BIRMGHAM WAS ONE OF MANY PEOPLE POLICS TO WELE NEWS OF THE WNG BID."IT IS ABSOLUTELY FTG THAT ATRALIA AND PARTICULARLY SYDNEY CELEBRATE OUR DIVERSY THROUGH SUCH A SYMBOLIC EVENT THAT WILL ALSO LIVER A HUGE BOOST TO OUR TOURISM DTRY," HE SAID.NSW ARTS MISTER DON HARW SAID THE EVENT WILL “ATTRACT THOANDS OF TERNATNAL VISORS AND PUT SYDNEY ON THE WORLD MAP AS A TLY CLIVE AND UNED GLOBAL CY.”SYDNEY LORD MAYOR CLOVER MOORE AND LABOR MP TANYA PLIBERSEK, THE LATTER OF WHOM HOLDS THE FERAL SEAT OF SYDNEY, BOTH WELED THE NEWS ON SOCIAL MEDIA.SHARE2 M READPUBLISHED 20 OCTOBER 2019 9:05PMUPDATED 20 OCTOBER 2019 9:29PMBY EVAN YOUNGSOURCE: SBS NEWSTAGSATRALIASHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOU

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.

GAY GAM VI RESULTS

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.

FERATN OF GAY GAM

Swimmer Jim Ballard set a world rerd the 100-meter backstroke 2002 at the Sydney Gay Gam. Powerlifter Chris Man began his reer at the Gay Gam and went on to w another 30 medals at var world champnships.

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. The upg Gay Gam will take place next year Hong Kong, where same-sex marriage is not legally regnized. 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.