Dear friends,

My Outgames photos are now online, including pictures of Equipe SF.

See www.dimitridevuyst.be

Please inform all your interested friends and members or make a link to my website.

Enjoy!

Dimitri Devuyst

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From: Equipe SF 2006

To: equipesf1@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 11:20 PM

Subject: [equipesf1] FELICITATION! (Congratulations and Upcoming Pic Swap Party!)

What an extraordinary experience for an extraordinary team.  Congratulations to all Equipe SF athletes and artists who participated in the 1st World Outgames Montreal 2006!  You were fabulous and the world got to see and meet firsthand the wonderful people that make up the place we call home.

 

Thank you for all the hard work each of you put into preparing for your performances, and for coming together as individuals and as a group to celebrate all the best that our GLBT worldwide community has to offer.

 

Thank you for supporting each other, for making new friends, and for changing lives.  Many of you joined in booing the Canadian Federal Minister, who stood in for a Prime Minister that chose not to attend the Opening Ceremonies and who is currently trying to overturn the Canadian law guaranteeing full rights for gay marriage.  However, many of you may not know that two days later, that very same Minister, who was chosen to represent the Federal Governement and the Canadian Prime Minister, made a public declaration announcing his personal support FOR gay marriage!  It seems our message was heard loud and clear!

 

We certainly had fun, and what a joy it was to be so welcomed by so much and so many in Montreal.  From the storefronts in and outside of the Gay Village, to the Metro workers and hot Montreal Police, to the families straight and gay that filled the Olympic Stadium and filled the festivals and streets; Montreal showed us the power of cooperation, diversity, tolerance, and unity.  We thank them for showing us such generous and genuinely warm hospitality.

 

While the party may be over, the memories and photos will last forever!  So, it's been suggested that we all have one last hoorah and get together to share stories and swap digital pics.  Therefore, keep an eye out for an invitation and in the meantime, get your jpegs burned onto a CD that you can bring to the party so everyone can enjoy them! (and get yourself a nice big jump drive to make copies of your favourites at the party!)

 

Finally, take a look at the attached file or the "EquipeSF Medals" file uploaded onto our yahoogroup website to determine if we've missed any of the Outgames medalists.  As a group, it looks like we earned at least 84 medals:  31 gold, 46 silver, and 7 bronze.  If you know of anyone missing from the list, please write to equipesf1@yahoo.com so that we can update the file and ensure its accuracy and completeness.

 

Merci and see you soon!  Copenhagen 2009 - HERE WE COME!

 

Equipe San Francisco

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aww... how sad... This is something that always happens at the gay
games. They cancell all the specials for that period, and instead jack
up the prizes. They don't ever learn and deserve to lose money :)
I stayed at the dorm at the University and loved it. Nice to give money
to the University as well...
ciao
giampi
PS I replied privately to Jim about his article, also because he quoted
me. Overall it just sounds too biased and personal to be taken seriously...

Bobby Hoeppner wrote:

> Several Montreal Hotel vendors are now pursuing a law suite, because
> of misleading hotel projections.  Some hotels that blocked rooms will
> be losing millions of dollars.
>
> */Equipe SF 2006 <equipesf1@...>/* wrote:
>
>     This "news article" speaks for itself.  It most likely does not
>     speak for any of us who have actually experienced the 2006
>     Montreal World Outgames firsthand.
>
>     http://www.ebar.com/columns/column.php?sec=sports
>     <http://www.ebar.com/columns/column.php?sec=sports>
>
>     If you have a different opinion and the inclination to let it be
>     known, perhaps a letter to the editor of the B.A.R. is in order.
>     barpaper! @aol.com <mailto:barpaper@...>
>
>     Equipe San Franciscso
>
>
>
>     Equipe San Francisco
>     http://equipesf.org
>
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To: equipesf1@yahoogroups.com
From: soyroy@...
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 06:54:00 -0700
Subject: [equipesf1] BAR article: Letter to the Editor

EquipeSF,
fyi: I just submitted the following letter to the editor of the Bay Area Reporter.
Roy

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From: Roy Schachter <soyroy@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 7, 2006 6:49 AM
Subject: Letter to the Editor
To: BARpaper@aol.com

Dear BAR editor,
I would like to submit the following letter for publication to the BAR.
thank you,
Roy Schachter
19100 Crest Ave, # 13
Castro Valley, CA 94546
415-699-5639 cell

Letter to the Editor:

Jim Provenzano's assessment of the Outgames Montreal 2006 (Sports Complex/Outgames a go, 8/03/06) is an extremely unbalanced editorial with an apparent agenda to de-legitimize the Outgames' efforts to create a new, exciting GLBT sports and cultural event, which has the potential to enrich our community.  As a Bay Area Outgames athlete returning from an exciting and successful week in Montreal, it is disturbing to feel a lack of support from my "hometown" LGBT newspaper.  We should continue to support the Gay Games, which has worked extremely hard over two decades to develop LGBT sports opportunities.  We can also cheer the expansion of this movement now that LGBT world sports competitions will be organized more often than every four years.

We should be celebrating, not lamenting, that the Outgames succeeded in implementing their vision of a large scale sports and cultural event combined with an LGBT human rights conference.  The very significant Canadian governmental and tourism board financial contributions, instead of being criticized as a sign of dependency, is a promising model of private-public cooperation with clear mutual benefits.  It also demonstrates how Montreal and Canada are creating a society where the LGBT community can become an integral and equal participant and partner in events and Canadian society.  I recognize that the financial concerns of the Federation of Gay Games (FGG) that resulted in FGG's change from Montreal to Chicago to host the 2006 Gay Games are intended to avoid repeating past brushes with bankruptcy and ensure the success of the Games.  However, if indeed both the 2006 Gay Games and the 2006 Outgames come out in the black, albeit via different funding models, we should be happy to have two successes that together included thousands more GLBT athletes and friends.

There are several other issues raised in Mr. Provenzano's article that point to a Gay Games bias and misrepresent the facts.  The suggestion by Mr. Provenzano that the Outgames sports component was overshadowed by the conference and cultural events is simply wrong.  Outgames 2006 was first and foremost a sports extravaganza, with easily accessible venues and very well organized competitions that were a privilege to participate in as well as be a spectator or cheerleader.  That Internet search engine results yield a cached entry identifying Montreal as the official site for the 2006 Gay Games is hardly the fault of the Montreal committee, which long ago corrected this on their web site.  The participant count is also a weak attempt at discrediting the Outgames, in that 10,000+ athletes for an inaugural event in a year when the Gay Games involved 12,000 athletes less than 2 weeks earlier is a remarkable feat. Montreal's projections of 16,000 athletes may have been met if the FGG/Montreal split did not occur.  The statement that "all Chicago's foreign participants were eventually given visas." is also incorrect, per my understanding that at least some Gay Games participants were never able to secure their U.S. visas.  Unlike the implied statement by Jim Provenzano that the Outgames registration fees were significantly higher than the Gay Games, these fees were nearly equal, depending on the sports selected for participation.  Lastly, Mr. Provenzano's use of inflammatory and questionably accurate verbiage is one more reason I see his writing as an attack on the Outgames.  Examples include: "plotting", "shell game", "gleefully pounced", "deliberately misleading", and "a veritable hornet's nest of deceptions"

For sure, Mr. Provenzano also recognized many positive features of the Outgames, but with an overall strongly negative tone about the Outgames, these are difficult to fully appreciate.  Let's honor all of our LGBT athletes and organizers of these excellent events.

Roy Schachter

Castro Valley

I always found hotels that have Honeymoon and
Presidential Suites objectionable for being elitist.
Now they are pursuing Law Suites. What next? A-Gay
Suites with undistorted projection TVs?

As for Jim's article, I can only paraphrase Margo
Channing in kind, "I'm so happy [he's] happy."

Posted by: "Bobby Hoeppner" hawkeyecub@...
hawkeyecub
Fri Aug 4, 2006 5:13 am (PST)
Several Montreal Hotel vendors are now pursuing a law
suite, because of misleading hotel projections. Some
hotels that blocked rooms will be losing millions of
dollars.

Equipe SF 2006 <equipesf1@...> wrote: This "news
article" speaks for itself. It most likely does not
speak for any of us who have actually experienced the
2006 Montreal World Outgames firsthand.

http://www.ebar.com/columns/column.php?sec=sports

If you have a different opinion and the inclination to
let it be known, perhaps a letter to the editor of the
B.A.R. is in order. barpaper@...

Equipe San Franciscso


Equipe San Francisco
http://equipesf.org



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Hi Brian,

Thank you for the OUT Splash Tickets. I'm glad we could complete the transaction
for your
friends. It was kind of you to wait for Roy. I hope you were able to find your
friend okay. I
sat down to save seats while the rest of the guys went to see if they could find
even better
seats. John lost your friend in the crowd and came back to sit with me and the 6
saved
seats! did you enjoy the event? There didn't seem to be many swim clubs
participating.

On another subject, I am the Social Coordinator for the Blades and I would love
to foster a
supportive environment amongst our teams. I would love to see us stay in contact
so we
can share events and creat opportunities to get togehter for sporting and fun.
Please stay
in touch.

Thanks for all your work.

Lee Jewell
SF Bay Blades
rljinsf@...

Thought you might find this interesting:

http://www.hour.ca/news/news.aspx?iIDArticle=9904

P.S. If you come across any more article, please share them

Hi All,

My rowing partner Roy and Me were a few hours late in obtaining OUT Splash
tickets before
the event SOLD OUT. I am seeking 2 Tickets for tonights show.

Please contact me:

415.420.5038
rljinsf@...

I am checking into the OMNI Mont-Royal this morning.

Thank you for your consideration.

Lee Jewell

This "news article" speaks for itself.  It most likely does not speak for any of us who have actually experienced the 2006 Montreal World Outgames firsthand.

 

http://www.ebar.com/columns/column.php?sec=sports

 

If you have a different opinion and the inclination to let it be known, perhaps a letter to the editor of the B.A.R. is in order.  barpaper@aol.com

 

Equipe San Franciscso

 

Equipe San Francisco

http://equipesf.org

 

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I will be out of the office starting  07/28/2006 and will not return until
08/08/2006.

I will respond to your message when I return.

Bonjour Equipe SF!

A friend of mine just had an emergency and is unable to make it to Montreal, so his room is available.  At the Maison du Prêt d'Honneur (College Residence) .

Its $644 (in Canadian dollars, taxes included) for a Studio, single bed, private bathroom, A/C, and small kitchenette.  It includes 8 nights (July 29-Aug 6) and a city tour.

Anyone interested in purchasing a medium uniform, please contact me ASAP.  I will be leaving for Montreal tomorrow and will be bringing it with me, so you'll need to collect it in Montreal before Opening Ceremonies if you want to wear it next Saturday.

$80.00 cost to the first person that responds by email.

 

Thanks,

Brian Jung

 

 

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