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Organizers postpone the Gay Games in Hong Kong until 2023 as pandemic rages on
Hong Kong was chosen as the next Gay Games’ host city in 2017. The organizers have dealt with one issue another ever since.
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Why hold the Gay Games in Hong Kong? The city is ripe for reform on LGBTQ rights.
Bringing the games to Hong Kong puts LGBTQ issues back on the government’s agenda. Isn’t that good?
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The Olympics may have more LGBTQ representation than ever but it still has some major issues
There is historic representation at the Olympics, but some of the best LGBTQ athletes didn’t make the trip – and the ones that did have been misgendered, publicly maligned, and even outed while in Japan.
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Vandals deface a plaque commemorating gays who were executed in France
Paris is hosting the Gay Games at the moment, but that doesn’t mean that homophobia is over.
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China’s first-ever Gay Games team could be the largest delegation ever
“People in China don’t know about the games, and this is the first time there has been a direct link between the games and China.”
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Report: Gay Games added $52 million to Northeast Ohio economy
The 2014 Gay Games, which attracted nearly 8,000 athletes to Northeast Ohio in August, added $52 million to the local economy during the eight-day event.
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Gay Games athletes heartened by Cleveland welcome
CLEVELAND — Nick Gill says he was warned by a teammate on his indoor volleyball team about what Cleveland might be like before they left Portland, Maine, for the Gay Games this week. “He was telling us horror stories about growing up here,” Gill said Thursday while watching the beach volleyball tournament at a lakeside park just outside downtown Cleveland, which is staging the Games …
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Obama opens international Gay Games with surprise video message
CLEVELAND — President Barack Obama has helped kick off the international Gay Games in Cleveland with a surprise video message shown at the opening ceremonies. Obama welcomed athletes, coaches, families and spectators from around the world to Ohio and the United States as the event began Saturday night. The president said the United States…
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America’s Heartland hosts Gay Games, visitors from around the globe
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Participants and spectators from 46 countries are coming to the Heartland for Gay Games 9, a quadrennial event that for the first time is taking place outside one of the world’s gay capitals. In choosing Cleveland and Akron, organizers said they wanted to stage the Games in a place where they could have an impact in boosting acceptance and support …
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Cleveland developing registry of LGBT businesses in time for Gay Games
CLEVELAND — A registry of businesses owned by members of the LGBT community is being developed in time for the 2014 Gay Games scheduled for the Cleveland area in August.