Gay Games & Cho
A government that would deny a gay man the right to a bridal registry is a fascist state.
[Mararet Cho in her film "Notorious Cho"; quoted in Jason Anderson's July 2002 review of the film for Toronto Eye; reminded by: Sarah in her interesting piece about the opening of this year's Gay Games,* "Lois Lane'ing The Gay Games VII", at Shakespeare's Sister, 17 July 2006.]
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*For those who like to adopt a condescending attitude towards the Gay Games vs the Olympics, consider two facts: 1) The Gay Games is the largest international athletic event in the world; and 2) in their earliest days (in the 80s), the Gay Games were known briefly as the "Gay Olympics" until the International Olympic Committee threatened a lawsuit because they couldn't allow just anyone to use the word "Olympics", which is why you never hear anything else called the Whatever Olympics, right?
This last bit, by the way, led to one of the more interesting phone conversations I had with a rude telemarketer. I got the call shortly after the IOC came up with this homophobic outburst — it was a woman looking for support for the "Special Olympics". Clearly, I had my own reasons why I didn't react positively to the idea of another "olympics", but my refusing her request only led her to ask in a rather strident voice: "What have you got against retarted kids?"
Gay Games VII is going on right now in Chicago. In 2010, Gay Games VIII will be in Cologne.