We've been posting updates as each group of ten events on the Outsports countdown is published, but for this one, we didn't want to wait.
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 his attempts to call them the Gay Olympics and instead settled on Gay Games.
The first were held in San Francisco from Aug. 28 to Sept. 2, 1982. There were 1,350 athletes from 10 countries competing in 17 sports.
Keep reading this post which has great quotes from Gene Dermody and Roger Brigham HERE.
If Gay Games I is number 5, we're eager to see number 4 through 1!
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