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Also 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

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Wikidata facts

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
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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.