The Journey of Bringing The Gay Games for the First Time to Asia
Dennis Philipse |
TEDxWanChai
• June 2018
The Gay Games is a worldwide sport and cultural event that promotes sexual diversity, featuring LGBT athletes and artists. In 2016, Dennis Philipse, a champion for LGBT+ inclusiveness, led the team that bid and won the rights to host the 11th Gay Games in 2022 in Hong Kong, marking the first time the diversity sports, arts and cultural festival will be held in Asia. In this talk, Dennis shares how the bid to bring the Gay Games to Asia became a reality and how sport can be used as a business case for education and increased acceptance of being LGBT.