Editing Gay Games (section)

===Gay Games VI: Sydney 2002===
The 2002 game took place in [[Sydney]], [[New South Wales]], from November 2 to 9, 2002.  Sydney won the bid to host the games from other contenders which were [[Montreal]], [[Toronto]], [[Long Beach, California|Long Beach]]/Los Angeles and [[Dallas]]. The Games opening included a speech by out gay High Court of Australia Justice [[Michael Kirby (judge)|Michael Kirby]] and were officially opened by New South Wales Governor Professor [[Marie Bashir]]. When Gay Games VI was chosen to be in Sydney, Australia it was partially because of already present LGBTQI sport teams.<ref name=":2">{{cite journal|jstor=4124457|language=en|title=Boundaries of Desire: Becoming Sexual through the Spaces of Sydney's 2002 Gay Games|journal=Annals of the Association of American Geographers|volume=96|issue=4|pages=773–787|last1=Waitt|first1=Gordon R.|year=2006|doi=10.1111/j.1467-8306.2006.00811.x|s2cid=144445479}}</ref> The Sydney Gay Games were the first in the Southern Hemisphere and this was emphasized by the games theme "Under new skies".<ref name=":2" />