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culture festival. Last year, the Gay
Games faced an additional threat
from a competing gay sports event,
World OutGames. Held in Montreal
just one week after the Gay Games,
that competing event’s host organiza
tion ended up losing more than $5
million Canadian.
At the Gay Games VII closing
ceremony July 22, 2006, Chicago
passed the symbols of the Gay Games
to Cologne, Germany, the host of the
2010 Gay Games.
Anti-Gay Senator
Cops to Sex Scandal
U.S. Sen. David Vitter, R-La.,
who has built his political career
around family values and railed
against same-sex marriage, admitted
July 9 to “a very serious sin in my
past” after his telephone number
appeared among those associated
with an escort service operated by the
Cyndi Lauper performed during the closing ceremony of the
so-called D.C. Madam.
2006 Gay Games at Wrigley Field in Chicago.
Vitter admitted that he had
sive annual film and television collection to the
contacted a D.C. escort service sometime before
Outfest Legacy Project, a partnership between
2004, apparently while serving in the U.S. House
Outfest and the UCLA Film and Television
of Representatives, and July 10, Jeanette Maier, the
Archive. GLAAD announced the collaboration in
Canal Street madam of a high-price brothel in New
celebration of Outfest’s 25th anniversary, which is
Orleans, told WDSU-TV that Vitter frequented
being held through July 23.
her establishment in the mid-1990s. In addition,
"Each year, GLAAD monitors and archives
The Shreveport Times reported that the former
thousands of hours of film and television,” said
chairman of President Bush’s Louisiana finance
GLAAD president Neil G. Giuliano. “We are
organization, Boysie Bollinger, said Vitter’s rela
thrilled that this collaboration with Outfest and
tionship with prostitutes was known to insiders
UCLA ensures all of this important material will be
when he ran for the U.S. Senate in 2004.
made available to the public for generations to
Vitter has touted himself as a “moral values”
leader throughout his political career and ardently
come.”
In previous years, GLAAD donated its film and
opposed same-sex marriage, saying: “I’m a conser
television archives to One National Gay and
vator who opposes radically redefining marriage,
Lesbian Archives. In March, One deposited its vast
the most important social institution in human
assemblage of moving image material—more than
history.” He has been a sponsor of the Federal
1,500 films and 3,000 videos—including GLAAD s
Marriage Amendment, which seeks to preclude the
collection, with the Outfest Legacy Project. The
recognition of same-sex marriage.
deposit nearly doubled the Outfest Legacy Project’s
holdings, which had already comprised the world’s
Compiled by J aymee R. C uti and M alka G effen
largest publicly accessible collection of
queer films.
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One year after Chicago hosted nearly
12,000 athletes from 50 countries at the
2006 Gay Games, Chicago Games, the
host organization for the event,
announced July 10 that the event broke
even. This positive financial result
reverses a 20-year trend, not achieved
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since 1986.
The 2006 Gay Games contributed
$50 million to $80 million to the local
economy. Some people estimate that
another 10 years of positive gay tourism
visibility will generate millions more
dollars in the long term.
Nevertheless, the past three Gay
Games host committees lost significant
amounts of money, threatening the
future of the quadrennial sports and
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