BBCNEWS Witness History June 4, 2024 15:51:00
When we marched in, we had all of these people on both sides of the stadium clapping for us, we all cried, we all cried. may i welcome you, athletes and spectators from all over the world, to the first gay games? tom was the founder of the gay games, an athlete in the 1968 mexico olympic games. a lot of the men and women in the olympics at the time were in the closet, they did not want to come out. if they did, they got harassed in the locker rooms and what tom wanted was for everyone to be part of the games and at the time i was a bigwig in women's softball. when i met tom, it was a kindred f...