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  • Diversity Issues

  • The Role of Gay Sports In Filling Hotel Rooms

  • By Jeff Guaracino, Vice President, Communications, Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corp

  • GLBT athletes travel for regional, national, continental and international sports competitions and the gay sporting competitions generate millions of dollars for local economies. Gay sports remains an emerging growth market as evidenced by the increasing number of sporting competitions and the steady growth in attendance at those events by athletes and spectators alike.

    Gay sporting competitions include badminton, basketball, beach volleyball, bowling, cycling, cross-country, dance sport, darts, diving, dragon boat regatta, figure skating, flag football, gold, handball, ice hockey, karate, marathon, marital arts, physique, pool billiards, power lifting, racquetball, road races, roller racing, rowing, rugby, sailing, soccer, football, softball, squash, swimming, synchronized swimming, table tennis, tennis, track and field, triathlon, volleyball, water polo and wrestling.

    There are regional gay sporting competitions that are held annually; multi-country competitions in Europe and North America held semi-annually; and two world-wide sporting competitions, modeled after the Olympics, held every four years with participants from more than 100 countries called the Gay Games and the World Outgames.

    The first question I always have heard is why do gay people need their own sporting competition? In Mark Twesbury's 2006 book called "Inside Out" he tells you that the world of sport is a world of uber masculinity. Professional sport ...

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