Featured events


7-9 September 2012
Brussels Games
Brussels

Brussels Gay Sports will offer a weekend of fun and fairplay in the capital of Europe, with volleyball, swimming, badminton, and tennis, as well as fitness and hiking.

Learn more HERE.
26-28 October 2012
QueergamesBern
Bern, Switzerland

The success of the first edition of the QueergamesBern proved the need for an LGBT multisport event in Switzerland. This year will be even bigger, with badminton, bowling, running, walking, floorball.

Learn more HERE.
17-20 January 2013
Sin City Shootout
Las Vegas
The 7th Sin City Shootout will feature softball, ice hockey, tennis, wrestling, basketball, dodgeball, bodybuilding and basketball.

Learn more HERE.

13-16 June 2013
IGLFA Euro Cup
Dublin
After this year's edition in Budapest at the EuroGames, the IGLFA Euro Cup heads to Dublin for 2013, hosted by the Dublin Devils and the Dublin Phoenix Tigers.

Learn more HERE.

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Birthdays and anniversaries...

Bill Mandel takes the birthday of Jessica Waddell Lewinstein as the starting point for a look back at the legacy of the Gay Games. Happy birthday from the FGG family!

A number of great things were being born when the opening ceremonies of Gay Games I brought thousands of celebrating gay and lesbian athletes to San Francisco's Kezar Stadium 28 years ago this week.

One was the liberating concept of a quadrennial sports and cultural festival highlighting the physical strength and emotional vibrancy of the lesbian and gay community. That concept has endured: Games of the eighth Gay Don't-Call-It-"Olympiad" in Cologne, Germany, which ended a few weeks ago on Aug. 7, attracted more than 10,000 athletes from 70 countries.

Another was the three-decade arc of historic irony that carried Vaughn Walker from being a U.S. Olympic Committee lawyer suing the Gay Olympics to drive the trademarked O-word out of its name (and placing an impoverishing lien on the home of the Games' co-founder Tom Waddell) to being the U.S. District Judge who overturned California's anti-gay marriage Prop. 8 on Aug. 4.

And a third great thing being born as Gay Games I filled San Francisco with an international rainbow of athletes and loved ones was the concept of Jessica Waddell Lewinstein, the daughter of Tom Waddell -- a Stanford-trained physician and 1968 U.S. Olympic decathlete -- and Sara Lewinstein, a Gay Games co-founder and outstanding athlete. Jessica came into the world a year later, in 1983.

Continue reading HERE.

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