Eurogames Barcelona 2008

Sports

  • Rugby Player Hosts Coming Out Party
    Former British Lions captain Gareth Thomas has hosted a star-studded bash to celebrate his recent coming out as a gay man.
  • Muslim footballers agree to play gay team !!
    A MAINLY Muslim non-league French side said they could take on rivals consisting of gay players after all, four days after snubbing them in what the former on Saturday insisted was a "misunderstandin
  • Gay French footballers 'snubbed by Muslim team'
    An amateur club of gay football players in Paris said Tuesday its members were victims of homophobia when a team of Muslim players refused to play a match against them.
  • Cleveland United States awarded 2014 Gay Games
    Cleveland was awarded the 2014 Gay Games in an announcement made a minute ago in Cologne, Germany, at the Federation of Gay Games meeting. Cleveland beat out Boston and Washington D.C.
  • Hundreds of athletes sign-up for 2010 Gay Games
    More than 1,700 athletes and artists from across the world have now registered to take part in next year’s Gay Games being held in Cologne, Germany from 31 July. .
  • Olympic gold medalist now accused of being a hermaphrodite
    Caster Semenya, the Olympic athlete who won gold in the 2009 World Championships before being publicly quizzed about her gender, has now been accused of being a hermaphrodite.
  • Olympic association demand athlete to prove gender
    The International Association of Athletics Federation, the governing body behind Berlin's olympics, have asked the South African athletics federation to conduct a gender verification test on 18-year-old 800m favourite, Caster Semenya.
  • Q-LIFESTYLE : Gay Village for 2010 Olympics
    The 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver will offer what is believed to be the first house devoted to gay and lesbian athletes and their family members and friends, reports The New York Times.
  • Outgames anthem released
    “Freedom to love – love of freedom”, the official song for World Outgames 2009, has now been released. The song is written and sung by Danish music icon Annisette, lead singer for the internationally known band Savage Rose. Annisette, who is now based in Los Angeles, will per-form the song live at the opening ceremony for World Outgames in Copenhagen on July 25.
  • Olympic Diving Gold Medalist declares support for Gay Games VIII
    Matthew Mitcham endorses Gay Games motto "Participation, Inclusion, and Personal Best" (TM). Matthew Mitcham won the gold medal in men’s platform diving at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, scoring the highest marks ever in platform diving.