Coming up at Federation of Gay Games Annual Meeting

Thursday will be the second day of the regular sessions of the FGG Annual Meeting. The day will be largely devoted to bylaw and board elections.

Bylaws to be proposed for approval by the Assembly aim to offer the FGG Board of Directors greater flexibility for organizing its meetings and other operations. A majority of board positions will be subject to a vote by the Assembly, with all current board members having submitted applications to return to the board.

Two year positions to be filled and their current occupants are Female Co-President (Emy Ritt, Paris), Female Vice President - Diversity (Laura Moore, New York), Vice President - Operations (Jon Baldan, Sydney), Vice President - Membership (Paul Oostenbrug, Chicago), Officer - Marketing (Doug Litwin, San Francisco), Officer - Sports 2 (Marc Naimark, Paris), Officer - International Development (Paul White, Sydney), Officer - Site Selection (Darl Schaaff, Anchorage), Officer - Development (vacant), Officer – Ceremonies (Robby Davis, Seattle). One-year positions for male co-president (Kurt Dahl, Chicago) and for VP External Affairs (Kate Rowe, Sydney) are also to be confirmed.
A number of applications for member at large have been received. The FGG Board is pleased to see this interest in new members, and is looking forward to working to expanding its range of skills and its capacity to manage the major projects it faces in the coming months.

Friday will be devoted to a morning session open to all on the subject of the Future of LGBT Sport and Culture, following the successful session on this subject run by the FGG during the 2009 World Outgames human rights conference. In the afternoon, sports managers for Games Cologne will show FGG delegates and sports coordinators the venues for Gay Games VIII at Sportpark Muengersdorf.

The board elected on Thursday will meet for the first time on Saturday morning, with a session devoted to new host Cleveland Synergy Foundation.