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Podcast: Today In History with The Retrospectors
Episode: The First Gay Games
Description: Over 1,300 athletes from 12 countries gathered at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco for the first-ever Gay Games, on 28th August, 1982.
Intended as the “Gay Olympics,” the event had to change its name at the last minute after the US Olympic Committee sued. But the opening ceremony was electric, with none other than Tina Turner performing at a pivotal moment in her career - a bold and unprecedented move for a superstar at a gay event in the early ‘80s.
The brainchild of Olympic decathlete Tom Waddell, the Games were intended to show that you could be openly...