
CONTACTAbout UsCAREER OPPORTUNITIESADVERTISE WITH USPRIVACY POLICYPRIVACY PREFERENCESTERMS OF USELEGAL NOTICE
© 2025 Equal Entertainment LLC.
All Rights reserved
All Rights reserved
By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
We need your help
Your support makes The Advocate's original LGBTQ+ reporting possible. Become a member today to help us continue this work.
Your support makes The Advocate's original LGBTQ+ reporting possible. Become a member today to help us continue this work.
Organizers of the Gay Games say Cleveland won't lose the 2014
event despite the organization's break with the nonprofit group
that submitted the city's winning bid.
Federation of Gay Games spokesman Kelly Stevens told The Plain Dealer of Cleveland Friday that the federation decided during the Cologne Games in early August that the international LGBT sporting event would remain in Cleveland in 2014. The resolution came after the federation broke its ties with the Cleveland Synergy Foundation, which campaigned with the idea that having the Gay Games in a more conservative city like Cleveland, as opposed to gay epicenters like Boston and Washington, D.C., which had both sought the Games, would help change hearts and minds concerning gay rights.
"I think D.C. and Boston could do a great Games," Stevens said. "The site selection group said all three cities were capable of producing the Games. Cleveland, we felt, is where we could really make a difference, and the total package was the best choice."
From our Sponsors
Most Popular
Watch Now: Pride Today
Latest Stories
BREAKING: Supreme Court to decide whether states can ban transgender women & girls from sports
July 03 2025 10:02 AM
True
Who was Jimmy Swaggart, the late, anti-LGBTQ+, disgraced televangelist?
July 02 2025 5:40 PM
The deadly 'big beautiful' budget bill will turn America into a morgue
July 02 2025 11:28 AM