Tom Waddell Street May Honor Gay Games Founder
After Polish advocate Lech Walesa's anti-gay remarks, San Francisco supervisor moves to rename street after Gay Games founder
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President Obama endorses Orlando's bid to host 2018 Gay Games
Barack Obama (Photo by Jack Gruber-USA TODAY) In what is almost certainly a first, an American president has endorsed a bid for a city to...
Gay Games OKs new sports -- including roller derby -- for 2018 event
The Federation of Gay Games has given the five bidding cities for the 2018 event permission to add as many as six new sports. The six are: archery, boxing, fencing, pétanque, roller derby,...
Gay Games 2018 site selection down to five cities. Brazil drops out.
Gay Games X will not be held in Brazil. Hoping to become the first South American country to host the games, the committee representing Sao Paulo and Rio di Janeiro has withdrawn its interest in...
Orlando to bid to host 2018 Gay Games
Orlando's new gay and lesbian visitors' bureau will announce that it will bid to host the 2018 Gay Games. It's part of a desire to make the Florida city -- home of Disney World -- a gay destination...
Moment #5: First Gay Games are held in San Francisco
Gay Games I medalists Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Multisports, 1982: Dr....
Gay Games stonewalling the press?
The Windy City Times in Chicago has a troublesome report that the Federation of Gay Games will not reply to any of their questions about the growing controversy in Cleveland including a lawsuit...
Gay Games are a big deal in Cleveland
How seriously is the entire city of Cleveland taking the Gay Games? The Cleveland Plain Dealer's editorial today is about making sure the Games stay in their city, despite the lawsuit from...
Happy Birthday Gay Games!
Many people don't realize that Gay Games founder Tom Waddell had a child who was conceived around the time of the first Gay Games. Jessica Waddell Lewinstein (right, with her mom) is the daughter...
Gallery: Gay Games jocks and their medals
As we update our extensive Gay Games photo galleries, check out our latest: Athletes and their medals. This Swedish runner was one of the stars of the track and field sprints.
Gallery: Gay Games jocks and their medals
As we update our extensive Gay Games photo galleries, check out our latest: Athletes and their medals. This Swedish runner was one of the stars of the track and field sprints.
Weekend hot jocks: Gay Games athletes
The variety of athletes and sports makes the Gay Games my favorite event to cover. In addition to articles and videos, Cyd and I shot more than 500 photos, and we are adding some nearly every day....
White House official wins Gay Games gold
The 2010 Gay Games in Cologne received virtually no mainstream media coverage, but Ed O'Keefe of the Washington Post's "Federal Eye" column has a nice item on the participation by Kei Koizumi, who...
For some athletes, need to stay hidden
It's easy sometimes, when living in the generally gay-tolerant West to remember that for many gays and lesbians, being discovered could literally put their lives at risk. At the Opening...
Cleveland Synergy loses Gay Games
While the Games will remain in the Cleveland/Akron area, the bidding organization, Cleveland Synergy Foundation, has lost the license to host the games. This is not a surprise, as we have been...
Hot announcers, medal inflation, naked medalist
Tim Husel, Flo Weber (click for larger view). Gay Games notes: I heard several people talk about the two hot announcers at track and field, so...
We're at the Gay Games
Cyd and I will be in Cologne for the 2010 Gay Games, so posting on the Jock Talk blog will be light save for breaking stories (or more jocks posting penis pictures). We will be busy in Cologne,...
Final Gay Games registration numbers
Gay Games VIII in Cologne managed to register 9,475 participants from 65 countries, according to numbers they released this week. While it's down from the 12,000 they set as a goal several years...
Welcome to our Gay Games 2010 blog!
Over the next two weeks, Outsports will be bringing you the latest from Gay Games VIII in Cologne, Germany. We'll feature news and notes, photo galleries and video updates from registration to the...
Breaking: More on Gay Games Cleveland
Updated July 19: City of Cleveland has sent a letter to Cleveland Synergy Foundation halting funding of the Gay Games organizing committee. Cleveland Synergy then sent a statement regarding the FGG...
Cleveland Synergy asks to meet with Gay Games
Cleveland Synergy Foundation today released a statement following Outsports' publication of a letter from the City of Cleveland to Synergy claiming the Federation of Gay Games was terminating its...
Letter: Cleveland halts Gay Games funds
Outsports has obtained a copy of a letter sent from the City of Cleveland to the Cleveland Synergy Foundation stating that the Federation of Gay Games is terminating Synergy's license agreement for...
Gay Games Cologne releases iPhone app
While Outsports will be providing unprecedented coverage of the Gay Games, including video reports, photo galleries and daily notebooks, the organizers in Cologne are also now offering an iPhone...
Big change at Cleveland Gay Games?
Outsports received a tip earlier this week that Cleveland Synergy Foundation, the group that won the right to host the 2014 Gay Games, had left or been removed from their role as organizers of the...
Gay Games Cologne releases iPhone app
While Outsports will be providing unprecedented coverage of the Gay Games, including video reports, photo galleries and daily notebooks, the organizers in Cologne are also now offering an iPhone...
Boston lashes out at Cleveland Gay Games
When the Boston delegates went to the Federation of Gay Games meeting to bring the 2014 games to their city, they thought they had it all locked up. But, like the undefeated 2007 Patriots heading...
