The groups that run the Gay Games and the Outgames failed in their attempt to hold one worldwide LGBT sporting event in 2018. Board members from the Federation of Gay Games and the Gay and Lesbian International Sport Association met in Montreal over the weekend, but were unable to reconcile their differences. There was even [...]
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Gay Games, Outgames meet to try and create one worldwide sports event
The groups that run the Gay Games and the Outgames are meeting in Montreal this weekend with a goal of organizing a unified worldwide sports and cultural event in 2018. This would end a schism that began in 2003 and it’s about time. There have been Outgames in 2006 (Montreal) and 2009 (Copenhagen), with the [...]
Battle erupting this weekend over Gay Games and Outgames one quadrennial event
As the Federation of Gay Games meets this weekend in Toronto, the hot topic will be the potential merger* of quadrennial events between the Gay Games and Outgames in 2018. While a combination of events is being discussed, no merger of organizations is on the table. Eight years after the Outgames separated from the Gay [...]
Top 10 moments in LGBT aquatics history
This summer we presented the 100 most important moments in LGBT sports history. We have encouraged leaders throughout the community to give us their top 10. This list comes from longtime IGLA and Gay Games leader Charlie Carson. It’s impossible to rank certain of the moments over others so I’ve chosen to list them chronologically. [...]
Moment #70: World OutGames forms after split with Federation of Gay Games
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Gay sports, 2003: It was not an amicable divorce. In 2001, the Federation of Gay Games awarded the 2006 Gay Games to Montreal. Just two years later, after charges and countercharges, the contract was still not signed and Chicago was awarded [...]
Paris and London bidding to host Gay Games X
Team Paris announced last week at a party in Cologne, Germany, to celebrate the Gay Games that they would be bidding for the 2018 Games; Now London has announced they will bid for Gay Games X as well. For Paris, it is in part the lure of potentially hosting the first combined Gay Games since [...]
Outgames respond to Team San Francisco
The 2013 Outgames in Antwerp, Belgium, have responded to Team San Francisco, welcoming everyone with open arms, including their attackers, to their event. Geert Tengrootenhuysen, LGBT communication for the city of Antwerp, sent me this email today: I wish to emphasize that Antwerp chose to organize the World Outgames because we strongly believe in its [...]
Team San Francisco attacks the Outgames
Since the day the First World Outgames were announced, there has been a segment of the gay community that sought first and foremost to destroy the Outgames. The latest installment is a press release from Team San Francisco publicly refusing to support the Outgames or athletes attending the event in 2013. From Team San Francisco’s [...]
Gay Games, Outgames to merge events?
For those who have been calling for the last six years for a united quadrennial gay-sports event, that possibility is now on the horizon. The FGG and GLISA are considering merging their Gay Games and Outgames events and holding a joint event in 2018. From the European Gay & Lesbian Sport Federation, who held their [...]
Outgames made a profit
After the 2006 Outgames in Montreal lost millions of dollars, it’s great to see the revamped Outgames made a profit last year. From GLISA’s press release: The board of directors of the Gay and Lesbian International Sports Association (GLISA) is proud to announce that the Copenhagen 2009 Outgames has declared a profit of DKK 1.2 [...]
Outgames headed to Belgium in 2013
For those of you wondering if the Gay Games and Outgames will be merging, it won’t be anytime soon. The Gay and Lesbian International Sport Association has announced a deal that will place the 3rd World Outgames in Antwerp, Belgium, in 2013. Antwerp has been the prefered spot for those games for a while and [...]
Copenhagen close-up on the Outgames bombing
Another report just in from my Aussie friend Neil Keele, who competed in several men’s age-group swimming events and logged some PBs. (Congrats to Neil!) He was right there in the middle of the Outgames, yet he evidently got a less detailed picture on the bombing than we got from the media here in the [...]
Live from the Outgames
An Australian athlete friend of mine, swimmer Neil Keele, is my “embedded reporter” in the Copenhagen games and agreed to send me live reports. Neil is an educator who trained for these Games for a long time. Owing to Internet difficulties, Neil’s eyewitness comment on the July 25 opening ceremony didn’t reach me right away. [...]
The pool rules in Copenhagen
Five years ago, the Toronto Triggerfish water polo team went winless in tournament play. When they won their first match in 2005, it was a cause for celebration. And Thursday at the Copenhagen Aqua Arena, the team was over the moon winning its first-ever medal in competition. We have reports from water polo, swimming, track, [...]
Perspective on the World Outgames Bombing
Hurray for Outsports for covering this event so thoroughly. Some other gay media are pretty much ignoring it. I posted an article about it at the Bilerico Project, and would like to repost and share some of that perspective here, about the ramifications of this outbreak of violence at these international Games. The fact is [...]
Outgames athlete describes bomb attack
Dean Koga of the Seattle Frontrunners was injured when shrapnel from a 9-inch bomb, one of three tossed, hit him during the track and field competition here in Copenhagen at the World Outgames. The incident is being called a hate crime. Koga, photo right, is being kissed by a fellow runner the day after, glad [...]
Outgames: Iceland, Denmark, swimming
The Second World Outgames have hit day 3 of competition in Copenhagen, and we have reports from swimming, soccer, handball and the marathon, plus reports from the Icelandic and Danish contingents. Check out our daily recap with news, notes and photo galleries from the event, including this Italian swimmer! Share on Facebook
Outsports Outgames coverage
The Second World Outgames kick off this Saturday in Copenhagen, Denmark, this Saturday, July 25. Our very own Jim Buzinski will be there covering the event with news and notes and photo galleries of all the sports. If you’re going to be in Copenhagen, be sure to track Jim down and say hi! And if [...]
Video: Toronto gay water polo team
Courtesy of Xtra in Canada, a short video on the Toronto Triggerfish as they prepare for this month’s Outgames in Copenhagen: Share on Facebook
A lesser Outgames starts in a month
The second Outgames starts a month from today in Copenhagen, with Opening Ceremonies on July 25. The multisport event will be a cozy affair, with about half the athletes of the 2006 edition in Montreal and far fewer than Copenhagen organizers had hoped for. The number of registered athletes is a “bit more than 4,000,” [...]