Gay Games
Sign in to saveAlso known as GayGames, Gay Olympic Games, Gay Olympics
international multi-sport and cultural event
Key facts
- Inaugurated
- 1982 ( 1982 )
- Organised by
- Federation of Gay Games
- Website
- www .gaygames .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- multi-sport event
- Country
- United States
- Official website
- gaygames.org
- Image
- Gay Games 2006 End-Ceremony 03.jpg
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- Commons category
- Gay Games
- topic's main category
- Category:Gay Games
- start time
- 1982-00-00
- social media followers
- 10643
- inception
- 1982-00-00
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Gay Games is a worldwide sport and cultural event that promotes acceptance of sexual diversity, featuring lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) athletes, artists and other individuals.
Founded as the Gay Olympics, it was started in the United States in San Francisco, California, in 1982, as the brainchild of Olympic decathlete (Mexico City 1968) and medical doctor Tom Waddell, Brenda Young, and others, whose goals were to promote the spirit of inclusion, participation, and personal growth in a sporting event. Waddell wanted to recreate the Olympics' power to bring people of various different backgrounds together through the international language of sport, and the organizers of the first event strived to accommodate differences and achieve gender parity.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gay Games” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.