GLBT History Museum to screen rare Gay Games videos
As part of its ongoing Mighty Reel series, the GLBT Historical Museum will screen excerpts from videotapes of the first two Gay Games, held in San Francisco in 1982 and 1986.Although at times simple by today's standards, the 1982 videos were shot and directed by Zane Blaney, and showcase historical moments in athletics and the LGBTQ community, which at the time began to face the growing AIDS pandemic amid continued discrimination.Video scenes of the opening and closing ceremonies, track, cycling marathon, women's soccer and softball, and even golf, are included in the array of digitized programs available to view on the GLBT Historical Society's online archives.Patterned after the Olympics and now held every four years in a different city,.
