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The Federation of Gay Games general assembly elected a new female co-president and seven new board members on 27 October at its annual meeting in San Francisco, capping a year of record growth in organisations associated with the Federation. This year’s annual meeting was the first for the new general assembly following the Federation’s November 2006 restructuring in Lyon, France. The 2007 meeting concluded just days before the 1000-day countdown to Gay Games VIII in Cologne, Germany, which runs from 31 July through 7 August 2010. The annual meeting included a variety of workshops facilitating productive working relationships among the [...]

Exactly three years before the Opening Ceremony of Gay Games VIII in Cologne, you can now pre-register. Be one of the first to register and guarantee your place in the 2010 Gay Games. Be among the 12,000 participants and 34,000 spectators at the Opening Ceremony of the Gay Games in Cologne. Only 1,096 days to go – be part of it! www.games-cologne.com

Exactly three years before the Opening Ceremony of Gay Games VIII in Cologne, you can now pre-register. Be one of the first to register and guarantee your place in the 2010 Gay Games. Be among the 12,000 participants and 34,000 spectators at the Opening Ceremony of the Gay Games in Cologne. Only 1,096 days to go – be part of it! www.games-cologne.com

To mark the beginning of the 2007-08 professional basketball season, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) today premiered a 20-second public service announcement (PSA) featuring retired NBA player John Amaechi. This is the fifth installment of GLAAD's new public education campaign that encourages viewers to "Be an Ally & a Friend". Amaechi made history in February 2007 when he became the first former NBA player to come out publicly. Over a six-year period, Amaechi played for the Cleveland Cavaliers, Orlando Magic and Utah Jazz. In his New York Times bestselling autobiography, Man in the Middle, he describes his [...]

To mark the beginning of the 2007-08 professional basketball season, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) today premiered a 20-second public service announcement (PSA) featuring retired NBA player John Amaechi. This is the fifth installment of GLAAD's new public education campaign that encourages viewers to "Be an Ally & a Friend". Amaechi made history in February 2007 when he became the first former NBA player to come out publicly. Over a six-year period, Amaechi played for the Cleveland Cavaliers, Orlando Magic and Utah Jazz. In his New York Times bestselling autobiography, Man in the Middle, he describes his [...]