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The Gay Games have grown into a global spectacle since debuting in San Francisco in 1982. Caroline Blumberg/EPA

The Gay Games are still relevant. Here’s why

The Gay Games are holding their 10th edition in Paris this week, featuring more than 10,000 athletes from 91 countries.
Protesters wearing masks of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin take part in a demonstration against the country’s ‘anti-gay’ laws outside the Embassy of the Russian Federation in London, February 2014. Reuters/Neil Hall

Homosexuality and the Olympic movement: towards better Games

Sport remains “one of the last bastions of cultural and institutional homophobia” in Western societies. But there is progress.

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