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And Samantha.

And welcome to Stuff I Never Told You, a production of IHart Radio.

And today we have an episode for you about the gay games.

We are kicking off Pride Month with a bang, with a history and a rundown about the gay games.

Because Samantha and I, we had not heard of it until recently with Samantha's activist around the world episode on

Kitty's Sway where it came up and we were like, what is this? We should look into it. What is this?

Yeah, what's going on here? So I would say go listen to that episode if you haven't already. Also, our

episode we did on the Olympics for

discussion about gendered categories. You could also check out our book. We have a whole chapter

about the Olympics in there. And our conversation we had with Dr. Anna Bath about trans athletes,

I think also relates to this. And an important related conversation about access and cost that we had in that episode.

I will touch on a bit here, but that's something to keep in mind.

This is going to be a bit of a shorter one, but I will tell you that if you want to learn more,

gaygames.org, they have a really useful, interesting timeline

that has videos and interviews, and it just shows how it's changed and how it came together

and the people that made it and what it's meant to people.

So if you would like to check that out, you can.

So the Gay Games is an inclusive event modeled somewhat after the Olympics where LGBTQ plus people can come together and compete in sporting and cultural events. These days, it brings in around

10,000 attendees who can visit Festival Village, which is sort of like Olympic Village, a meeting

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