FGG

The Federation of Gay Games ensures that the Gay Games offers participants the opportunity to express themselves openly and to experience camaraderie and validation through sport and culture.

The Federation of Gay Games perpetuates the quadrennial Gay Games and safeguards its founding principles of Participation, Inclusion, and Personal Best™. An all-volunteer organisation, the Federation is made up of individuals and organisations representing four continents. The Federation consists of a board of directors and an assembly of organisations. Currently, all of the board members belong to one of the organisations in the assembly. Assembly organisations govern single and/or multiple sport or cultural disciplines, and they can be local, national or international in scope. The member organisations are more than a list of groups that support the Gay Games — their delegates are actively involved in the Federation's work and decision-making. All are dedicated to ensuring the continuation of the Gay Games' 25 year history of inspiration and achievement.

Site Selection

A key task of the Federation is the selection of future Gay Games sites, a process that has become increasingly competitive since it was announced in 1990 that New York would host Gay Games IV. The Federation has resolved that the Gay Games should be a financially viable community-based event, focusing on the core sport and cultural activities that the Gay Games was founded to showcase. In 2005, the Federation selected Cologne as the site for Gay Games VIII among excellent bids from Johannesburg and Paris. The site selection process for Gay Games IX in 2014 has begun in 2008 with final selection to take place in late 2009.

For further information have a look at the website of the Federation of Gay Games: gaygames.com [1]