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2006 was a double-banner year for LGBT athletes. Two international sporting events were to take place that August; the seventh Gay Games in Chicago, and the upstart rival, the Montreal Outgames.
Since 1971, the newspaper of record for the San Francisco Bay Area Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender community.
Through the first 50 years of the Bay Area Reporter's existence, the paper's coverage of sports and sports-related topics has evolved from that of cheerleader and recording secretary to social advocate and noble muckraker. Sports reporting was less than an afterthought when the B.A.R. started publishing in April 1971. The first sports item — a story with no byline about annual awards presented by the local gay bowling league that identified most individuals only by surnames and first initials — did not appear until page 27 of the third issue, May 1, 1971. Classified ads also debuted in th...