Posted on 08/16/2014 6:45:48 PM PDT by Steelfish
'It's a huge human rights event. The Gay Games are changing the world' Athletes from around the world have spent the past week in Cleveland at the Gay Games, the worlds largest LGBT-friendly athletics event. Skyler Reid found a festival on the up Gay Games An audience member waves a rainbow flag during the opening ceremonies. This years Gay Games drew nearly 8,000 participants. Photograph: Skyler Reid
Four years ago, Konstantin Yablotskiy was not looking to change his life. He had travelled to Cologne to attend the Gay Games, an LGBT-friendly athletics festival. He was a figure skater, not an activist. Most of his friends or family did not even know he was gay. But then he took to the ice in front of a fully accepting audience, receiving whistles and applause on as he spun to a mid-tempo jazz number, later earning gold and silver medals for his performances.
He watched athletes from around the world competing openly, unafraid of expressing their orientation. Before Yablotskiy left, he decided that he would would organize an LGBT athletics organization in his home country, Russia.
When he returned to the Gay Games this year, Yablotskiy was leading a team of 33 athletes representing the 1,000-plus membership of the Russian LGBT Sports Federation.
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never heard of that before.
The dung punchers are no longer annonymous. Btw, is turd burglaring/dung punching one of the events?
I’m sure Bathhouse Barry participated in plenty of gay games himself when he was frequenting Man’s Country.
Butt Darts are similar to the old Lawn Darts......
You’re kidding! Don’t know how that screwed him up, especially how it affected the women he’s attracted to, but I fully believe he’s homosexual now. Why was his mother so screwy?
He’s going to organize an LGBT sports organization In Russia? Don’t think Putin will allow it. Yay, Putin!
How do they prove they’re gay? Wait... I don’t want to know.
WHAT!!!
Sick, just sick but thank you for posting this as I will spread this photo about if you don’t mind.
The story about barack’s nanny has been out there a long time. His mother was one twisted woman.
Here you go. It was posted on Free Republic a few years ago.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2856261/posts
Lots of my conservative friends doubt me when I tell them and I just tell them to google it for themselves.
“The Gay Games are changing the world”
World population = 7.046 billion
Gay games participants = 8000
8000 is 0.000114285714286% of 7000000000 or
8000 is 0.000114285714285% of 7000000000.05
I don’t think so.
thank you so much and very much appreciated.
I know where you are coming from about telling others.
I tried to tell people here about the girl scouts, abortion and a cross dresser and they couldn’t believe it at all.
I had to get them links and info and still some refused to believe it.
Seems some just can’t get it.
Who is she? I keep seeing her in FR posts. Beautiful.
She is best known for us not having seen her boobs. Jennifer Lawrence.
Gay Games are bigoted. The hate transgender games,..like,...Bronies????
The Special Olympics are really special. It gives special people something to be proud of. So gay people now have their own Olympics because? Or is this the Southpark meaning of word “gay” (awful, stupid). I.E. Dude! That is so gay! Then it makes sense. Gay Olympics.
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