- by Roger Brigham, BAR Contributor
- Wednesday November 15, 2023
If you read the superficial news reports and commentaries published in the final days leading up to the Gay Games events held in Hong Kong and Guadalajara, Mexico this month, you would have expected sparsely attended tournaments populated by athletes ducking bullets fired by Mexican cartels or constantly looking over their shoulders expecting to be kidnapped by communist party security officers. If you actually participated in the events, you would have found what is always present at the Gay Games: athletes and artists having the most joyous times of their lives overcoming obstacles and critics while transforming those around them for the better.
