Gay Games
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The Gay Games is the world's largest sporting and cultural event organized by and specifically for LGBT athletes, artists, musicians, and others. It welcomes participants of every sexual orientation and every skill level. Originally called the Gay Olympics, it was started in San Francisco in 1982.
Host cities have been as follows:
- 1982 San Francisco
- 1986 San Francisco
- 1990 Vancouver
- 1994 New York
- 1998 Amsterdam
- 2002 Sydney
- 2006 Chicago
- 2010 Cologne.
As a result of a dispute between the organisers and the city of Montreal, a rival event, the first World Outgames, was held in Montreal in July 2006, only a few weeks after the Chicago Gay Games. Sine then both evebnts have continued, but with the World Ooutgames being held a year before the Gay Games.
Based on a Wikipedia article.
