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Everyone's a winner at the Gay Games— but here's a list
of the ones who brought home medals by Paul Harris
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came through in Amsterdam.”
She adds, “I was able to talk to many people
from all over the world and, as a result, felt
more connected.”
Another gold medal winner was Corvallis
Participants from across the
resident Sue Gill, who took the gold medal in
globe— including many from the Pacific
the power-lifting competition. She squat-lifted
Northwest— competed in 29 events, including
253 pounds, bench-pressed 130 pounds and lift
billiards, sport climbing, table tennis, karate
ed a dead weight of 341 pounds to win her
and bridge.
medal.
The week-long Gay Games, the theme of
Gill, who works in a correctional institu
which was “Friendship through Culture and
tion, was struck by the international aspects of
Sports," wrapped up Aug. 8.
the event: “Especially at the opening cere
While sports were the central focus, there
monies, it hits you that we come from all over
were literally hundreds of other events going on
the world.”
simultaneously, including
Another Team Oregon
performances by singer
gold medal winner was
Grace Jones and actor
Terence Hutch, who scored
Harvey Fierstein. There
in the team body-building
were also many exhibits
event.
and discussions detailing
Hal G loff picked up a
different aspects of queer
bronze playing bridge. G loff
life. Banners and posters
says the Dutch Bridge
advertising the G am es
Federation— the second
were everywhere.
largest national bridge fed
According
to
the
eration in the world— was
Washington Post, each
“wonderful and very hos
night gay men and lesbians
pitable.”
“from different parts of the
Team Oregon
also
world flocked to story
picked up a medal via Tom
telling hours to relate their
Chun, who nabbed a bronze
coming-out experiences.”
in his division of the 200-
O fficially -san ction ed
meter breast stroke.
and unofficial parties were
O ther medal winners
held every night. Som e
include Ellen Carder, who
athletes were seduced by
earned silver in martial arts
the scene and chose to
forms;
triathlete Jill
drop out of their events Sprinter Dawn Collins; at top: Tom
Schuldt, who also took
because they had been par Chun
home a silver medal; and
tying too late the previous
Rhonda Fleischm an of
night. Som e marathon
Brownsville, who nabbed the gold in the mar
runners opted to run the half-marathon instead
tial arts forms competition for women 40 and
of the full 26-mile version because of lack of over.
sleep.
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he fifth quadrennial Gay Games in
Amsterdam came to an end after a
record-breaking 14,700-plus ath
letes took part.
eam Oregon did well, winning numerous
medals.
Track and field competitor Dawn Collins,
39, for example, took the gold in the 100 meters
and the silver in the 200 meters. She describes
attending the Amsterdam Games as “one of the
most memorable events of my life.”
C ollins made up her mind to go to
Amsterdam four years ago while at the New
York-based Gay Games, where she had won a
bronze medal. A veteran of two previous Gay
Games, she felt “the theme of friendship really
here was some controversy at the Games,
too.
Due to poor organizing, the International
Skating Union had not been approached to
either sanction the skating competition or,
alternatively, to grant a waiver to the skaters.
A s a result, the competitive aspect of the event
had to be canceled and the skaters presented a
public demonstration of their sport.
Some participants were so enraged they dis
cussed bringing a class action suit against the
G ay Gam es for negligence.
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