Valsin Dumontier's Gay Games memorabilia, 1994.

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Valsin Dumontier's Gay Games memorabilia, 1994.

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Programs, tickets, annotated photographs, broadsides, e-mail descriptions, and other printed material and ephemera pertaining to the 1994 Gay Games in New York City.

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Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

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Valsin, DuMontier

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Historical Note The Gay Games was an athletic event and festival first held in San Francisco between August 28 and September 5,1982. The event was founded by Tom Waddell, and it was first referred to as the Gay Olympics as it was modeled after the international Olympic Games. Controversy surrounding the event began when the U.S. Olympic Committee filed a legal injunction that succeeded in preventing use of the word "Olympic" as part of its na...

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