I announced the bid to host the London 2018 Gay Games to the press on Friday lunchtime. Within minutes the news had gone around the world, and was being published on sites like The Pink Paper and Advocate (in the US), which was great! I’m hoping the BBC will publish the story too – seeing as this is the largest sporting event in the world!
Soon after publishing the story, I heard that the senior press secretary to Nº10 was trying to get hold of a list of UK Medal Winners. I too had been trying to get hold of this for a couple of days, to incorporate into my press release announcing the launch. I looked on the Cologne web site, but the information wasn’t clear, so I emailed Emy (president of FGG), she’ll sort it out!
The I heard from the office of Tessa Jowell (the MP who got the Olympics Bid off the ground in the UK). She agreed to meet so I could learn what she went through. I’m really looking forward to that conversation, it should be really interesting. I’m reading the Mike Lee book about the Olympic Bid at the moment…
I biked down to a very rainy Swindon and Wiltshire Pride yesterday, though the company was very warm. What great guys in Swindon! I went out for a meal with some of them in the evening, they seemed just as fired up about the Gay Games bid as me!
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