Brent Minor: Tom Waddell Award finalist

The Federation of Gay Game's highest honour will be presented during Gay Games VIII in Cologne, Germany during the opening ceremonies.

The Federation of Gay Games today announced the list of finalists for the 2010 Tom Waddell Award. The Award, which will be presented during Gay Games VIII in Cologne, Germany, symbolised by the Dr. Tom Waddell Trophy, recognises one man and one woman who have made outstanding contributions to the Gay Games and worldwide LGBT sport and culture. The trophy, a gift of Vancouver's lesbian, gay, bi and transsexual community on the occasion of Gay Games III in 1990, is presented every four years at each Gay Games in honour of their founder, Dr. Tom Waddell. (More about the award HERE).

Brent Minor of Washington, DC as been nominated for his roles as a leader of LGBT sport both locally in Washington, where he founded Team DC, a dynamic FGG member organization with a focus on youth, a priority made visible by the scholarship it awards each year to a college athlete-scholar, and in the FGG, where he served as officer for development and male co-president. More recently, he served as the director and guiding light of the very impressive bid by Metropolitan Washington Gaymes to host Gay Games IX.