APPENDED DOCUMENTS:

Note the "Personnel", "advertising", "corporate sponsorship", "TV rights" figures, and comments re parties (alcoholic and probably illicit drugs too). How much will the Police budget be for this event?

source tables Doc refs 34

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Newspaper article "A"

SOURCE: The Age, newspaper, Melbourne. 15th November, 1997.

SYDNEY TO HOST GAY GAMES
By Rachel Gibson, Sydney.

Sydney's gay community was rejoicing yesterday after it won the right to host the 2002 Gay Games, the first city in the southern hemisphere to do so. Australia's gay capital beat the cities of Dallas, Long Beach (Los Angeles), Montreal and Toronto, to take the prize, announced by the federation of Gay Games in Denver, Colorado, yesterday.

The news was greeted with joyous partying in the city's famous Mardi Gras strip, Oxford Street.

It was Sydney's third attempt to win the games, first held in San Francisco in 1982.

Speaking from Denver, the cultural director and one of the presenters of the Sydney bid, Ms Gillian Minervini, said the 17-member bid team was ecstatic at the win, achieved in the first round of voting by an overwhelming margin.

"It's just sunk in and we're really, really happy," she said. "I think it's just another example of the fantastic commitment, sophistication, experience and visibility of Australia's gay and lesbian community. It just proves we can do anything."

The bid for the games, which cost A$180,000, won broad support from Australian business and cultural organisations and the New South Wales State Government, despite criticism from the state National Party leader, Mr Ian Armstrong, that they were "illegitimate".

The games, are expected to bring at least A$150 million into the NSW economy.

They will cost between A$9 and A$10 million to stage.

Twelve thousand athletes are expected to take part along with 35,000 participants in the Games' accompanying cultural festival, making the event bigger than the Sydney 2000 Olympic games.

The games will open at the Homebush Olympic venue on Saturday 31st August 2002, and will feature 22 sports including three demonstration events - surf lifesaving, beach volleyball and surfing.

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News paper article "B"

SOURCE: The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper, November 15th, 1997.

WE WIN - AND IT WILL BE WORTH MILLIONS
By Ardyn Bernoth.

Sydney's successful bid for the Gay Games in 2002 will provide a A$100 million boost to the NSW economy, with gay and straight people encouraged to participate in a carnival of traditional sporting events, cultural festivals and political forums.

The State Government welcomed the decision by the Federation of Gay Games to award Sydney the sixth games, saying it would help Sydney through the slump expected after the 2000 Olympics.

But the games have been attacked by both the National party and the Rev. Fred Nile of the Christian Democratic Party, who dubbed it the "Sad Games" and said overseas athletes should be tested for HIV/AIDS before being granted visas.

More than 10,000 people are expected to participate in 30 official sports, six demonstration sports, artistic events, lectures on gender and sexuality in sport and a giant dance party.

Visitor numbers to NSW are expected to top 30,000 with many of the events, including the opening ceremony, to be held in the new facilities at Sydney Olympic Park.

The organisers, Sydney 2002 Gay Games, were told early yesterday at a presentation ceremony in Denver, Colorado, that they had beaten Dallas, Long Beach, Montreal and Toronto.

It is the third attempt by Sydney to win the games, which began in San Francisco in 1982.

The chairman of the organising committee, Mr Tom Seddon, said the games and the cultural festival were aimed at being an international and inclusive event, with straight people, disabled and a range of ethnic groups being encouraged to participate.

The Sports Minister, Ms Harrison, described the games as very important for Sydney, with a likely economic boost of A$100 million for NSW.

"I think when you're looking at tourism and jobs people will accept these games and support them," Mrs Harrison said.

But the NSW National Party Leader, Mr Armstrong, dismissed the games as a minority event for which the Government should not provide any funding.

Mr Nile was outraged at the win and warned that the event would spark protest.

"Like the majority of Australians I am very disappointed that Sydney's bid has won the 2002 Sad Games," he said. ""The Carr Government is to be condemned that in the middle of a pedophile scare they actively promoted the Sydney bid and gave thousands of taxpayer dollars to help finance the bid."

"Sydney has enough social and moral problems without thousands of homosexuals descending on the city."

In April the State Government made a grant of A$75,000 to assist the bid. Mrs Harrison said no decision had been made on government grants to the games.

A Sydney spokeswoman for the organisers, Mrs Bronte Morris, said the games represented a "coming of age" for Sydney as a gay mecca and a safe and tolerant society.

Ms Morris said the swiming great Dawn Fraser had been involved in the bid process and that the team hoped she would play a role, possibly as an ambassador.

"I'm also hoping it will encourage the gay and lesbian athletes who exist within the mainstream sporting arena to come out," Ms Morris said. The games will have a budget of A$11.5 million. The managing director of the Tourism Council of Australia, Mr Bruce Baird, said the games had the potential to bring to Australia 40,000 visitors and he predicted they would inject at least A$160 million into the NSW economy.

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Newswire report: "Pre-Gaymes"

SOURCE: Associated Press 1998

1998 Gay Games in Amsterdam

Organizers from the foundation of the Gay Games to be held in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1998 hope to attract 12,000 participants to take part in sports ranging from ballroom dancing to bridge. The city is donating one million guilders (US$610,000), as well as use of local sports facilities. In November 1993, Amsterdam beat bids from Atlanta and Sydney, becoming the first city to host the games outside of the United States.

"It'll be bigger than the Olympics," added foundation secretary Marc Janssens, saying the New York games last year [sic- New York Gaymes were in 1994 -ed] attracted more than 10,000 competitors. The official logo will be a pink triangle linked with a tulip, the badge of shame nazis made homosexuals wear. Organizers hope to raise 6.5 million guilders through sponsorships, merchandising, and fund raising, with the rest of the 14 million guilder budget coming from subsidies and ticket sales. [AP]

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Newswire report: "Post-Gaymes"

SOURCE: Reuters 5th August 1998
By Janet McBride

AMSTERDAM-- The fifth International Gay Games, billed by organisers as a bigger sporting event than the Olympics, pulled back from the brink of financial disaster on Tuesday as sponsors and donors dug deep into their pockets.

Overspending by the organisers, estimated at two million guilders (US$1 million), and over-optimistic revenue forecasts had threatened to bankrupt the event even as crowds celebrated the weekend's opening with a flamboyant barge parade.

Managing director Marc Janssen, earlier feted by Dutch media as a financial wizard, was relieved of his duties at the weekend and the games' committee scrambled to find extra funds.

A quarter of a million participants and spectators are in Amsterdam [sic. 250,000 total attendance for week's events -ed] for the games which include marathon running, athletics, weightlifting, rowing, wheelchair dancing and chess.

Commercial sponsors including Dutch flag air carrier KLM (KLM.AS), Absolut Vodka (VO.TO), Durex (LONDY.O), Kodak (EK.N) and Levi Strauss had initially pledged an estimated 3.5 million guilders to the games which had an original budget of 14 million guilders.