August 31, 2009 is the 27th Anniversary of the Opening Ceremony of the first Gay Games held in San Francisco, California.
In 1981, gay athletes were a hidden and marginalized community within the greater marginalized and beleaguered LGBT community. Being gay and being an athlete was an either-or proposition: be a jock or be a queer. All of that changed when the athletes marched into Kezar Stadium in 1982.
Gay Games I, San Francisco, 1982 — In a world without email or internet, the fledgling San Francisco grassroots organization brings together 1,350 participants athletes, joined by 300 cultural participants, to compete in Gay Games I in 11 sports.
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