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Practice was one thing, but getting into a competition was an eye-opener.

Diver Joshua Koch gets help from his friends to make his Gay Games dream a reality.

Carlin Yetts had not wrestled competitively since high school, but with the Gay Games in his home state he is back learning a new discipline.

Come to the Gay Games Registration Party on Thursday, April 24th from 6-10pm at GYM Sportsbar – 8737 Santa Monica Blvd. – West Hollywood, CA 90069 REGISTER FOR THE GAY GAMES and GO ALL OUT!Learn about all 36 sports, Choral and Band events Register on the spot with lowest price availableTeam Captain incentive program for […]

Various taxi drivers in Cleveland refuse to drive cabs that hold a special placard promoting Gay Games 9, set for Cleveland and Akron this August.

Emy Ritt is excited about the sailing events in Cleveland, her fifth Gay Games after discovering the event.

Three years ago, George Melichar could not finish a 5K. But he now looks forward to another marathon at the Gay Games in Cleveland.

"It's important to help bring people to the Gay Games, to show them that there can be freedom in sport and through culture."

The ninth installment of the Gay Games will take place in Ohio this August. Join the LGBT athletes for the fun!

Overweight and depressed, David Smith was energized by his 2010 Gay Games experience and led him into personal training.

The meeting opens dialogue between LGBT-sports groups and the International Olympic Committe

Three finalist cities -- Limerick, London & Paris -- remain in the running to host Gay Games X

After Polish advocate's anti-gay remarks, San Francisco supervisor moves to rename street after Gay Games founder

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 host the Gay Games, when President Obama put his support behind Orlando's bid to host the Gay Games X in 2018. The news, first reported by Watermark, came in the […]

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, wheelchair rugby. Pétanque is basically lawn bowling on dirt and popular in France. Gay Games bid cities can request that certain sports […]

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 hosting these Games, which would have been held two years after the Summer Olympics. Sydney previously held the 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 for events other than the annual Gay Days, held each June. From the Orlando Sentinel: “We’ve estimated […]

Gay Games I medalists Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Multisports, 1982: Dr. Tom Waddell was an Olympic decathlete who had a dream of holding a sports event geared to gay and lesbians, to shatter the stereotype of what being an athlete meant. He was thwarted in […]

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 against the FGG. In addition, the Times exposes claims that the new group the FGG has tapped to host the Cleveland Games […]

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 Cleveland Synergy Foundation: By their nature, the 2014 Gay Games, expected to attract more than 10,000 athletes, will promote the kind of respect […]