Every four years, Federation of Gay Games members vote for a city to host a Gay Games five years down the road.

Rick Welts, a gay man who's president and chief of operations for the Golden State Warriors, is a wonderfully successful NBA executive.

When the Miami World Outgames went belly up at the end of May, angry LGBT sports activists and athletes said they wished the licensing body would go out of business.

Manuel Picaud, co-president of the Paris Gay Games, made a promotional stop in San Francisco last week to raise awareness of next year's event.

An official summary of the long-awaited city audit of the 2017 World Outgames that were canceled at the last minute in May was presented to Miami Beach Commission Tuesday.

Until last week, internet searches for the words "World Outgames Miami 2017" offered scarcely any mention of the quadrennial event scheduled in Miami Beach.

Years before the first Gay Games (1982), San Francisco's gay community already had a lot going on in organized sports. Several gay softball teams had been organized before the historic Gays vs. Cops games in 1973 and 1974.

Like a yin-yang of stalwart athleticism and Bacchan celebration, gay bars and gay sports have gone together for more than half a century.