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The Gay Games, founded 16 years ago as a way to bring together through sports competition people who were being excluded from mainstream life, have found themselves on the eve […]

Amsterdam, one of Europe's gay capitals, is anticipating an influx of more than 200,000 people for the fifth Gay Games -- the first to be held outside North America. From […]

Gay Games in Amsterdam Q. Do you have information on the 1998 Gay Games, which I understand are to be held in Amsterdam? -- Donald Rose, Seattle, Wash. A. The […]

Remembered by most gay and lesbian New Yorkers for the Gay Games and the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, June 1994 now turns out to have a darker distinction. […]

Greg Louganis, the 1984 and 1988 Olympic gold medal diver, who publicly acknowledged his homosexuality for the first time at last year's Gay Games in New York, has said he […]

CATHERINE Hughes and Jane Morrigan should have got back by now to their Nova Scotia farm after the 24-hour drive from New York. They probably will already have hung up […]

GAY GAMES IV are gone from New York, but they have left an indelible, colorful imprint, and not just pink. Other hues are red, white and blue. The weeklong games, […]

Keith Turner easily won the men's marathon at the Gay Games yesterday, but as temperatures rose with the sun, the women's race became a tight one. The race started at […]

'I've known world-class athletes, men particularly, who dropped away because of the stress,' said Sandy Ledray last week. She gestured down at the Hunter College gym floor where two teams […]

The fourth Gay Games drew to an ebullient close yesterday as 750 runners slogged through a humid marathon in Central Park, thousands of athletes and spectators thronged into Yankee Stadium […]

CAPTION(S): Photo: The closing ceremonies of Gay Games IV were held last night at Yankee Stadium, where 11,000 athletes from 40 countries paraded around the field and then packed the […]

This is the summer of the souvenir key ring. At Macy's, the arcade has been turned into a helter-skelter series of souvenir shops. The Unity '94/Gay Games IV boutique is […]

Several months ago the Rev. Ruben Diaz, a member of the Police Civilian Complaint Review Board, said he saw some real dangers in the Gay Games, the exuberant Olympiad for […]

It was his best time in about 10 years and his third world record this week. Not bad for a 31-year-old swimmer. Bruce Hayes set a world Masters swimming record […]

For the first time since its founding in 1982, the Gay Games is presenting dance events. The ancient Greeks would not have been surprised. Their ideal of a sound mind […]

'The disease is the gold medalist, the world champion that will beat all comers,' Thomas C. Gehring said acidly, just before his blue eyes went as soft and unfocused as […]

Greg Louganis, the legendary diver and two-time Olympic gold medalist, gave a flawless exhibition last night at the Gay Games in New York City, where earlier this week he publicly […]

On a day when much of New York prepared to watch the Knicks and Rockets from Houston last night, there was basketball played in the Bronx. Many of the players […]

The Gay Games got off to a rocky start yesterday morning when a triathlon was canceled at Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx because the city failed to provide an […]

The Gay Games began officially yesterday as thousands of athletes and spectators gathered in Manhattan for a gala opening ceremony that included marching bands, several standing ovations, and a baton […]

LAST month, Mayor Giuliani asked his Labor Commissioner to have a quiet talk with George M. Steinbrenner, the Yankees' owner, about what was good for the city. What was good […]

Besides providing the setting for the Stanley Cup, the World Cup and maybe a basketball trophy too, New York City gets to play host to Gay Games IV for the […]

This time, believe the hype. In this city where the Rangers, who normally skate on ice, now walk on water, where the Gay Games and the World Cup are about […]

Across six months in office, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has had a strained relationship with gay-rights advocates, parting ways with them on a range of issues from his long refusal […]

In conjunction with Gay Games IV and the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, a number of related cultural activities are planned in New York City. Here is a sampling. […]

IN the transcendent final scene of Tony Kushner's play 'Perestroika,' three characters, one of whom is dying of AIDS, sit on the rim of Bethesda Fountain in Central Park and […]

The largest and most welcomed gay and lesbian gathering in the city's history has begun drawing scores of thousands of homosexual athletes and tourists to town for the Gay Games […]

The way Eloy Escarcida tells it, he was minding his own business watching Gay Games III in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1990 when he had one of life's little epiphanies. […]

CAPTION(S): Photo: City Councilman Thomas K. Duane, left, with Jay Hill, head of Gay Games '94, spoke yesterday in favor of the games next month. Behind them at City Hall, […]

The top official of the Gay Games IV said yesterday that the New York Yankees have agreed to allow Yankee Stadium to be used for the closing ceremonies of the […]

The Yankees have denied Gay Games IV organizers the use of Yankee Stadium for their closing ceremonies on June 25, citing concerns about thousands of athletes marching on the field. […]

The Clinton Administration said today that it would waive a visa rule and allow foreigners with the virus that causes AIDS to attend the Gay Games in New York in […]

The Clinton Administration is expected to waive the rule that bars foreigners with the AIDS virus from entering the United States to accommodate athletes and spectators planning to attend the […]

Although she will be playing tennis and not competing in the tournament, MARTINA NAVRATILOVA was honored at Madison Square Garden last night during a fund-raiser for the Gay Games IV […]

New York City is to hold Gay Games IV in 1994, an amateur sporting competition that is expected to draw as many as 15,000 athletes from 40 countries, Mayor David […]

LEAD: Dr. Thomas F. Waddell, one of the founders of the Gay Games for homosexual athletes in 1982 and a sixth-place finisher in the decathlon at the Olympic Games in […]

LEAD: Dr. Thomas F. Waddell, one of the founders of the Gay Games for homosexual athletes in 1982 and a sixth-place finisher in the decathlon at the Olympic Games in […]

For the past nine days 3,400 amateur athletes from 37 states and 16 foreign countries, most of them homosexuals, have been competing here in an Olympic-style sports event, Gay Games […]

Tom Waddell, who placed sixth in the 1968 Olympic decathlon and helped found the Gay Games in San Francisco four years ago, is fighting two battles these days. He has […]