Download them here! ==>  Miami and Miami Beach  and Reykjavik

All GLISA members from around the world are invited to register to vote to choose whether Miami Beach or Reykjavík will be the host of the 4^th worldOutgames in 2017.

The meeting will be held physically in Antwerp, Belgium, host of this year’s worldOutgames. Instead of having members fly to a destination for the vote, we have setup a virtual meeting online so if you are unable to be in Antwerp on that day, you can join in by video conference or teleconference – and still cast your vote. It’s easier for you and ensures greater participation from all GLISA members.

The site selection starts on the 28th of February at 1800 local time (1700 UTC/GMT, 1200 EST, 0900 PST, 0500 Eastern Australia following day). Click here for times in your location.

Every GLISA member organization has one vote. International Federations such as the European Gay & Lesbian Sport Federation and International Front Runners have two votes each, and the GLISA Continental Associations also get to vote.

You need to register in advance to attend the meeting – both for voting and attending so that we can organize the logistics. Click here to register no later than 15 February!

Download bid books here! ==>  Miami and Miami Beach  and Reykjavik

The Gay & Lesbian International Sport Association
announces shortlist of bidders for fourth edition of worldOutgames

A site inspection team will now visit both cities and prepare a report that will be presented to the members of GLISA. The final step will take place in Antwerp, Belgium, in February 2013: each city will be invited to present its bid to the members at a selection meeting. In order to be as inclusive as possible, members will be able to take part and vote by video and teleconference. The winning city will be announced at the conclusion of the meeting.

worldOutgames III in Antwerp in 2013
Elio Di Rupo and Guy Verhofstadt are also lending their ongoing support as patrons of worldOutgames III, which will be held next year from 31 July to 11 August. The event coincides with the tenth anniversary of the introduction of Belgium’s same-sex marriage law under Verhofstadt’s premiership back in 2003. “With today’s announcement of our bidders for 2017, we are proud to symbolically link all four worldOutgames. By presenting Jeroen Van Bergen, CEO and Bart Abeel, chairman of worldOutgames III with medals from Montreal 2006 and Copenhagen 2009, we are also showing our appreciation for dedication to the Outgames” said Paul Brummitt, chair of GLISA’s site selection committee.

 About World Outgames
The first worldOutgames was held in 2006 in Montreal and attracted more than 12,000 participants. The event was based on three components: Sport, Culture and Human Rights. The second worldOutgames was held in Copenhagen in 2009. It was an attractive, open and inclusive event that welcomed the local and international LGBT community as well as the wider population of Copenhagen and Denmark.
Successful events have also been hosted by GLISA’s Continental Associations in North America and Asia-Pacific: the 2007 North America Outgames in Calgary, the 2008 Asia-Pacific Outgames in Melbourne, the 2011 Asia-Pacific Outgames in Wellington, and most recently the 2011 North America Outgames that took place in Vancouver in July of that year. In 2014, Darwin, Australia will host the 3^rd Asia-Pacific Outgames and in 2015, Denver, Colorado will host the 3rd North America Outgames.

Toronto, September 19, 2012 – The Gay and Lesbian International Sport Association is proud to announce that letters of intent to bid to host the 4^th worldOutgames in 2017 have been received from:

Denver –  Miami Beach – Reykjavik – Rio de Janeiro – Rome.

The first step of the bidding is now closed, and the cities will now start getting ready to make their cities shine.

“GLISA is extremely pleased to see the interest from so many diverse cities in organizing this international LGBTQ event consisting of equal parts multi-sport tournament, human rights conference and culture,” said Julia Applegate, female co-president of GLISA International.

Daniel Vaudrin, male co-president, added “we are also especially happy that they are from three different continents.”

The next step in this process is to announce a short list of bidders. This is expected to occur in the month of December this year. Please follow our twitter account @GLISAIntl for updates to this schedule.

World and Continental Outgames

The 1st worldOutgames was held in 2006 in Montreal and attracted more than 12,000 participants. The event was based on three components: Sport, Culture and Human Rights.

Since then, successful events have been hosted by GLISA’s Continental Associations in North America Calgary, Canada and Vancouver, Canada) and Asia Pacific (Melbourne, Australia and Wellington, New Zealand).

The successful 2nd worldOutgames was held in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2009. It was heralded as an, attractive open all-inclusive event not only for the local and international LGBT community, but also for the people of Copenhagen and Denmark.

In 2013, July 31 – August 11, worldOutgames III will be held in Antwerp, Belgium. The next Asia Pacific Outgames will be in Darwin, Australia, and the next North American Outgames in Denver, USA.

In a Spirit of Friendship, Solidarity and Fair Play

Gay and Lesbian International Sport Association

(GLISA) family response to Russian Ban of the Sochi Pride House

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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) cannot afford to turn a blind eye to the recent Russian decision to ban a Pride House at the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi. In fact, this blatant contravention of citizens’ rights by the Russian government is a yet another compelling argument for the IOC to add human rights to the Olympic pillars of sport, culture, and the environment.

To date, the Russian government and its judiciary have repeatedly banned Russian gay activists from creating a Pride House at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Modeled on the very successful Pride House erected for the 2010 XXI Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, this pavilion was to continue the work of celebrating LGBTQ athletes and trainers and promoting understanding of the issues they face in sport.

Russian claims that a Pride House will undermine “family motherhood and childhood protection…and sovereignty” are grossly misdirected and factually wrong.  In communities around the world where LGBT individuals are respected and provided with equality rights, family values are reinforced through marriages and adoption as well as support for the family structure. Furthermore, studies have shown that in neighborhoods where there is a strong presence of LGBT communities, quality of life is high. In short, gays are good for everyone.

A Pride House is not propaganda for minorities and will not subvert the Russian state as that government claims. On the contrary, a Pride House is a peaceful celebration of the diversity that already exists in Russia and its federation. A Pride House reinforces Russia as a democratic state that respects both citizen rights and universal human rights; and it embraces the diversity of the international sports community arriving in Sochi.

The Russian government’s exclusion of a Pride House stands in stark contrast to the image that the country wants to convey to the world. How can Russia showcase its progress as well as its charms as a travel destination to an international population when it willingly contravenes and tramples on the human rights of own citizens?

In fact, recent laws banning “homosexual propaganda” in St. Petersburg and other cities have already prompted other governments to issue travel warnings to LGBT citizens thinking of travelling to Russia. The Russian decision regarding Pride House will send a further chill around the world.

The love of sport, respect for our shared human aspirations, and desire for peaceful co-existence are the heartbeat of the Olympic movement. Currently the Olympic pillars are; sports, culture and the environment. The environmental pillar was added in 1994 in recognition of the negative impact major sporting events can have on the surrounding environment.

While the IOC’s official stance is that the Olympic Games are a sporting, not a political event, the boycott of South-African sports teams in 1976, during the apartheid regime, demonstrated that sport can strengthen the cause of human rights.

The IOC is tarnishing the human rights legacy of the Olympics by turning a blind eye to abuses. It needs to learn the lessons from Beijing and now Russia that the Olympics sporting event should not be placed against a backdrop of human rights violations, with activists prevented from expressing their views peacefully or put in detention by host countries when they have committed no crime.

The IOC must put its core values of human dignity into practice by enshrining and upholding international human rights, which includes LGBTQ rights, as its fourth pillar alongside sport, culture and environment.

The IOC could solidify this intent by building concrete and measurable human rights and LGBTQ rights impact indicators into all future Olympic bid processes and host country and city contracts.

The exclusion of a Russian Pride House is a clear violation of the Olympics spirit, which states “The goal of the Olympic movement is to contribute to building a peaceful and better world by educating youth through sport practiced without discrimination or any kind, in a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play.”

Russian LGBT organizers have reached out to the IOC in light of their country’s actions against a Pride House. The ball is now in the International Olympic Committee’s court to meet their concerns.

Written on behalf of the GLISA family by Gord Dunbar and Duy Q. Ngo, Directors of GLISA North America.

The Gay and Lesbian International Sport Association is proud to be a sponsor of Pride House 2012, which opens on Friday August 3 at CA House, Limehouse Basin, in the East End of London.

Pride House is an initiative of Pride Sports UK and is supported by a number of international and UK LGBT organizations (see below).

A much larger project of the same name to be held in a London park was cancelled a few weeks ago due to lack of funding.  Since then, Pride Sports, a GLISA member organization, has taken the lead in setting up a more modest, but equally important venue.

The full program of activities for Pride House can be viewed at www.pridehouse2012.org and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/pridehouse2012 . The program includes exhibitions and videos as well as a chance to relax and watch the Olympics on TV at the bar.  A full sports program at various locations around London is also being finalized, which includes a GLISA sponsored football tournament on Sunday August 5.

A large number of local VIPs are expected to attend a reception and a media event to encourage the IOC to be more proactive about inclusion, and for sports in general to be more inclusive.

Invited guests include out Olympian Mark Tewksbury, Chef de Mission for Canada, a former gold medal swimmer in Barcelona 1992 and a founder of World Outgames 2006 in Montreal. Uffe Elbæk, the former CEO for the World Outgames 2009 in Copenhagen and current Danish Minister for Culture and Sport has also accepted an invitation to lunch on Sunday August 5.

Please see the above website and Facebook page for program changes, which may occur at short notice.

NOTE TO EDITORS: Media presence is very welcome but please contact us at secretary@glisa.org for up to date scheduling.

Pride House Partners

Lead partner:

Pride Sports, a social enterprise for the development of LGBT sport: pridesports.org.uk

Supporting partners:

EGLSF, the European Gay and Lesbian Sport Federation, bringing together over 300 European LGBT sports: eglsf.info

Gay and Lesbian International Sport Association, the governing body of the World Outgames, founded through the support of Mark Tewksbury, winner of three Olympic medals in 1998 and 1992, and chef de mission for Canada for the 2012 Olympic Games. glisa.org

LGBT Consortium (the Consortium of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered Voluntary and Community Organisations) is a national specialist infrastructure and membership organisation that focuses on the development and support of LGBT groups, organisations and projects: lgbtconsortium.org.uk

LGBT London, an online portal for LGBT Londoners with information about local LGBT organisations: lgbtlondon.com

Phoenix Football Club, created in July 2008 to meet the needs of East and North London’s growing LGBT community, is hosting the Pride House football tournament on Sunday 5 August: phoenixfootballclub.co.uk

Pride House Foundation, a foundation to raise awareness about homophobia in sport, encourage healthy and active lifestyles and promote diversity and inclusion on a global scale: pridehousefoundation.org

FGG, the Federation of Gay Games, the governing body of the Gay Games: pridehouse.gaygames.org

CONTACT

Secretary, Gay & Lesbian International Sport Association

Paul Brummitt

secretary@glisa.org

Tel: +45 50 43 26 19

Article en français disponible ici 

Former swimmer Mark Tewksbury, 42, has been appointed Chef de Mission for Canada at the Olympic Games 2012. The gold medal winner in the 100 metres backstroke at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992, Mark came out in 1998 (Fugues covered the story a few months later). He is a motivational speaker and an LGBT rights activist. He was co-president of the Montreal Outgames in 2006 and together with Martina Navratilova, he made the Declaration of Montreal demanding equal rights for LGBT people throughout the world. At the United Nations in December 2008, he was part of the group who presented the joint declaration on universal decriminalization of homosexuality, a French initiative supported by Canada. Since 2009 he has been a member of the LGBT Panthéon of Vancouver. As the London Olympic Games approach, we spoke to him.

1. What is a Chef de Mission at the Games?

The representative of the national team with the National Olympic Committee and the international organizations, the International Olympic Committee and the international federations. He’s the spokesman of the team, he visits the Olympic sites, makes sure the athletes are properly settled in the village – in short, he is responsible for the team functioning well.

2. I imagine it’s not just about being the Chef de Mission for Canada. Especially since Canada finished 3rd in the medal table at the Vancouver games…

We definitely want to continue that, even if it’s a completely different ball game at the summer Games with more than 200 countries present. We were 13th at the summer games in Beijing in 2008, bringing home 18 medals (3 gold, 9 silver, 6 bronze). Today we are working on coming in the top 12 countries. For some countries the Chef de Mission is primarily a ceremonial role, but Canada traditionally chooses a former athlete with experience of the games in order to best meet the needs of the athletes.

3. Do you think the question of your sexual orientation had any effect – positive or negative – when the Chef de Mission was being chosen?

I don’t think it had any influence, which is in itself something very good and shows the tangible way Canada has moved as a society. This type of openness to diversity and inclusion is something I hoped for for the Canadian Olympic Committee, without being too optimistic about it, when I came out 14 years ago.

4. What are your expectations for the Canadian athletes?

As I said we aspire to be among the top 12 countries. As far as individual performances are concerned work will mostly be done between athletes and trainers or teams and trainers in the case of team sports. The job of the Olympic Committee – as well as me – is to prepare the athletes well for the Olympic Games. With athletes from 26 sports and 36 different disciplines, without counting the media attention, it goes without saying that the Olympic Games are putting the emphasis on entertaining the athletes at a time when they ought to be concentrating as much as possible on the performance they are going to have to give. My role, and the role of the Canadian Olympic Committee, is to accompany them in the final moments up to the Games in order to help them to concentrate, just as they need to do. They have to be capable of focusing in order to turn their performance and success into medals.

5. And what exactly are you doing to facilitate exceptional performance?

There are no magic formulas, but it’s incredible what can happen when you are able to create team spirit and unite the athletes in a common goal. We realized that in Vancouver. The idea is to create momentum. Practically, it’s at that level, the motivational level, that I see I can best help the athletes. How to react to the performance of a particular athlete in order to motivate the others, but also not to discourage the rest of the athletes in case one athlete or team doesn’t perform according to plan and expectations. You know, athletes train for years for their performance and during those 17 days, they have to know how to improvise and adapt.

6. You saw the games in Seoul and Barcelona from the inside, I imagine the pressure was intense?

Totally! But that’s what elite level competition is about. And there’s no doubt the pressure from other people is less than the pressure each athlete gives him or herself. Outside pressure is just another level added, but the real pressure comes from the athlete who truly wants to give his or her best ever performance and win. No one wants to win more than the athletes do – I can assure you.

7. If I am not mistaken, no Canadian athlete at the Games in London is openly gay or lesbian.

Not openly gay in so far as it is public knowledge, I do know that there are gays and lesbians in the Canadian team.

8. Are you surprised, disappointed or do you completely understand that nearly 15 years after your own coming out, there are not more elite athletes who have done so?

I would be lying if I told you that I was not a little disappointed or somewhat surprised. I haven’t got an answer to why that is. Some of the athletes who I know are lesbians haven’t asked me for advice about the question of sexual orientation, even though I am openly gay. They come to see me for help with their performanceI think that those who don’t talk about it simply don’t want their orientation to be yet another issue they have to deal with.

9. And that’s even though they live in Canada, a country where discrimination is not only illegal, but where there is a lot of tolerance of homosexuality?

Oh yes. We mustn’t forget that all the athletes compete outside the country too, sometimes in countries where just being gay or lesbian is illegal or socially unacceptable. For women, there is often a double discrimination in countries where women are afforded less respect anyway. These are factors which without a doubt weigh importantly in certain athletes’ decision to not want to put themselves in a position which would put them at a disadvantage and in danger if they were completely open about their sexual orientation.

10. What will you say to a young athlete who was hesitating about whether to come out before or after the Games?

In Canada I don’t think there is any need be afraid at all when coming out. The fact that the Chef de Mission of the Canadian team is openly gay is a clear and strong message: the elite sports structure will support you and it is indeed possible to be an elite athlete and openly gay. That said, like all other homosexuals, athletes will come out when they’re ready. First of all you have to accept yourself, then be comfortable with the idea of talking about [your sexuality] before finally coming out. If an athlete feels better not saying anything, it’s better not to say anything. If he or she is tortured by the idea of keeping it secret, it’s better to talk about it, even if only to a limited group of people. Athletes perform best when they feel better about themselves. What is peculiar about elite sportspeople is that all their energies are channeled into their performance, and for them the question of sexual orientation mustn’t be a hindrance. In my case, I had to break free from the burden of secrecy and the shame I was experiencing. So I spoke to my trainer a few days before the Olympic competition I felt liberated and could also feel the support. I am convinced that that changed the dynamics and that it had an impact on my performance. I could concentrate purely on the competition. If coming out helps athletes feel better about themselves, I’m convinced that they have to do it. On the other hand, if an athlete sees coming out as a burden to carry publicly, he or she risks not doing it. At the end of the day, it’s up to the individual to choose. If an athlete is mentally tortured about whether or not to come out, I think he or she has to transform the energy consuming him into a force which will fuel his performance.

11. On another note, would you like to make a comment about the failure of the negotiations between GLISA (the organizers of the Outgames) and the Federation of Gay Games about combining their two large global LGBT sports tournaments?

The Federation did not negotiate in good faith, just like when Montréal was trying for two years in 2002 and 2003 to reach a compromise about the budget and the decision-making processes which the board of the FGG repeatedly rejected. They only know one way of doing things: imposing their way of seeing things and their way of working. Originally, the Gay Games were an excellent initiative, but the organization behind the Games has not moved with the times and its [lack of] representation is becoming more and more of a problem for an organization which calls itself international. It’s a shame because instead of seeking a rapprochement with the various international LGBT sports federations in the four corners of the world, the FGG has once again shown itself to be incapable of responding to local needs and adapting to different cultures and ways of doing things. I’ve spoken to people from GLISA and they are devastated. They had hope in the negotiations and were ready to make concessions if FGG had also moved. It’s not easy to put on an event the size of Outgames and even more difficult when there is another player in the picture. It’s regrettable, but it confirms my impression that we [the Montreal 2006 team] were neither fools nor acted in bad faith in our negotiations with the FGG.

London, 20 July 2012

Exhibition on out student athletes added to programme of Pride House 2012

Expanded electronic version of ‘Fearless’ will make its European debut

Pride House 2012 is pleased to announce the addition of a new exhibition to its programme of events for the Olympics. In addition to the already-announced exhibition ‘Against the Rules’, photographer Jeff Sheng will be showing a newly expanded electronic version of his ground-breaking exhibition ‘Fearless’.

Pride House 2012 is a project of Pride Sports UK, in collaboration with the European Gay and Lesbian Sport Federation (EGLSF), the FGG, Gay and Lesbian International Sport Association (GLISA) International, the LGBT Consortium, and the Pride House Foundation and aims to offer a welcoming space for all athletes, staff, spectators and friends of London 2012. Pride House 2012 will be open from 3 to 7 August at CA House in Limehouse Basin on the river Thames, with the Pride House 2012 festival continuing in various venues through 12 August, the day of the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games.

Lou Englefield, Executive Director of lead partner Pride Sports, expressed her pleasure at rounding out the exhibition programme with ‘Fearless’: ‘While “Against the Rules” looks at out sports icons of the past and the present, “Fearless” presents role models for today and tomorrow. We know from experience the power this exhibition can have, both as works of art and as testimony of the courage of young people today. Whatever their future in sports, they are sports heroes.’

‘Fearless’ is a long-term project of noted American photographer Jeff Sheng, who travels to high school and university campuses in the US to capture portraits of young out student athletes. Olympic speed skater and Gay Games Ambassador Blake Skjellerup attributes his own public coming out to his encounter with the exhibition at the 2010 Pride House in Vancouver, taking the courage of these young people as a model to follow.

Jeff Sheng presents the project: ‘In 2003, I began “Fearless,” documenting high school and collegiate athletes who openly self-identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender and are “out” to their predominantly straight teammates and coaches.  Since then, I’ve photographed over 150 athletes across the United States and Canada for this series.  In 2006, I began exhibiting the project at various high schools and colleges as part of what I named the “Fearless Campus Tour”. So far, the project has been seen at over fifty college and high school campuses around the United States, as well as ESPN headquarters, the 2009 International LGBT Human Rights conference at GLISA World Outgames in Copenhagen, the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics and at Nike World Headquarters. I’m very happy to now bring it in an electronic format to Pride House during the Olympics.’

Les Johnson, co-chair of the Federation of Gay Games’ External Affairs committee, spoke of his own encounter with Jeff Sheng at the recent Nike LGBT Sport Summit: ‘Jeff is both talented and motivated in using his art as a tool for social change. After “Fearless”, he undertook a new project to portray closeted US military personnel under the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. With regard to athletes, we know the difficulties of young people, and in particular young athletes, in coming out. Those shown in the exhibition are truly “fearless”. I’m very pleased that despite time and budget constraints, Jeff responded to my request to participate in Pride House by offering an electronic version of the exhibition, which we hope will inspire others to come out.’

Sheng added: ‘Beyond the pleasure of being part of the experience of the Olympics, this exhibition coincides with the relaunch of my website in view of my new project to turn “Fearless” into a book, like those I produced for my “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” series.’

More about Pride House 2012 at http://pridehouse2012.org and http://www.facebook.com/pridehouse2012
Learn more about “Fearless” at http://www.fearlessproject.org

Lead partner:

Pride Sports, a social enterprise for the development of LGBT sport: pridesports.org.uk

Supporting partners:

EGLSF, the European Gay and Lesbian Sport Federation, bringing together over 300 European LGBT sports: eglsf.info

“Against the Rules”, the EGLSF exhibition on LGBT sports pioneers: gaymes.info/againstherules

FGG, the Federation of Gay Games, the governing body of the Gay Games, the largest international sport and culture event open to all: pridehouse.gaygames.org

Gay and Lesbian International Sport Association, the governing body of the World Outgames: glisa.org

LGBT Consortium (the Consortium of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered Voluntary and Community Organisations) is a national specialist infrastructure and membership organisation that focuses on the development and support of LGBT groups, organisations and projects: lgbtconsortium.org.uk

LGBT London, an online portal for LGBT Londoners with information about local LGBT organisations: lgbtlondon.com

Phoenix Football Club, created in July 2008 to meet the needs of East and North London’s growing LGBT community, is hosting the Pride House football tournament on Sunday 5 August: phoenixfootballclub.co.uk

Pride House Foundation, a foundation to raise awareness about homophobia in sport, encourage healthy and active lifestyles and promote diversity and inclusion on a global scale: pridehousefoundation.org

Toronto, July 17, 2012,
UPDATED: August 13, 2012

Following requests and comments from a number of organisations, the Gay & Lesbian International Sport Association is adjusting the timetable for submission of Letters of Intent for the 2017 worldOutgames.

August is a period of the year  in many parts of the world means that key people are unavailable until September, and so in order to give ample opportunity to every bidding organizationwe are therefore allowing extra time for their letters of support.

The revised timetable is therefore:
September 17, 2012: submission of organization’s Letter of Intent to Bid
October 1, 2012: submission of all other documents and payment of the initial fee of CAD 750.
October 3, 2012: issuance of Handbook for Bidders.
Click here to open Request for Proposal

GLISA International is delighted to announce that the bidding Process for the 4th worldOutgames in 2017 has started

To kick off the bidding process for the 4th worldOutgames in 2017, GLISA International is today issuing its Request for Proposal (RFP), inviting all interested cities to submit a “Letter of Intent” and ultimately a full bid.

The full RFP document and the timeline can be downloaded from the GLISA International website: www.glisa.org.

Paul Brummitt, chair of the Host Selection Committee said, “World Outgames is an international LGBTQ event consisting of equal parts multi-sport tournament, human rights conference and culture. The Host City we ultimately select will have the responsibility, and capability, to deliver a financially successful event”.

GLISA, in partnership with the organizing team in Antwerp, is currently involved in the preparations for World Outgames III to be held from July 31 to August 11.

The timeline set by the GLISA International Board envisages the announcement of the host for the 4th worldOutgames in Antwerp at the end of February 2013.

World and Continental Outgames

The 1^st worldOutgames was held in 2006 in Montreal and attracted more than 12,000 participants. The event was based on three components: Sport, Culture and Human Rights.

Since then, successful events have been hosted by GLISA’s Continental Associations in North America and Asia Pacific in 2007 (1^st North America Outgames in Calgary) and 2008 (1^st Asia Pacific Outgames in Melbourne).

The successful 2^nd worldOutgames was held in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2009. An attractive open all inclusive event for the (local and international) LGBT community, but also for the people from Copenhagen and Denmark.

In 2011 GLISA’s Continental Associations in Asia Pacific and North America hosted events in Wellington, New Zealand (March) and Vancouver, Canada (July).

worldOutgames III will be held in 2013 in Antwerp, Belgium. In 2014, Darwin, Australia will host the 3^rd Asia Pacific Outgames and in 2015, Denver, Colorado will host the 3^rd North America Outgames.

For additional information on the GLISA family and our events, please visit our websites:

• www.GLISA.org
• www.World.Outgames.org

Contact:

Host Selection Committee Chair

Paul Brummitt –

bid2017@glisa.org