Australia’s leading gay and lesbian newspaper Est.
1979 www.
starobserver.
com.
au Issue 1023 Wednesday 26 May 2010
more than just a newspaper
Team Sydney
rebukes
Akermanis
NICK BOND
While AFL footballer Jason
Akermanis wrote a piece
for Melbourne’s Herald...
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Australia’s leading gay and lesbian newspaper Est.
1979 www.
starobserver.
com.
au Issue 1023 Wednesday 26 May 2010
more than just a newspaper
Team Sydney
rebukes
Akermanis
NICK BOND
While AFL footballer Jason
Akermanis wrote a piece
for Melbourne’s Herald Sun
newspaper last week advising gay
sports people considering coming
out to “forget it”, new figures
from our Gay Games contingent
tell a different story — there are
339 proud GLBT sportspeople
registered from Australia to attend
the Gay Games at Cologne in July,
203 of them from NSW.
It is the
largest contingent ever to travel
from Australia to an international
gay event.
“It’s huge, seeing as in Chicago
four years ago we only had 270
from Australia.
There are many
from NSW, and a good number
from Melbourne too.
It should be
very impressive,” Team Sydney
president Geoffrey Radford told
Sydney Star Observer.
“Registrations don’t close until
May 31, and they’re still coming
in — we’re still getting additional
numbers.
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