Queering Sports//

Zeljko Blace

Since GayOlympicGames#1 (1982) there are global/regional multi-sport events gathering LGBTIQ+ athletes in “Participation, Inclusion and Personal Best!”. As mainstream traumatised non-conforming youth, LGBTQ sport inspired personal and social growth… Singular act of resistance & resilience instigated by Olympian Tom Waddell (apropos  Harvey Milk assassination and LA Olympics), grew as movement, that in 30 years it formalised, institutionalised and commodified. Analysis of these processes helps strategize co-ownership of the mainstream and LGBT/Queer spaces.

Zeljko Blace//
is (in)consistently working in(-between) contemporary culture, media technologies and sport cross-pollinating queer, media and social activism. He was co-founder of Multimedia Institute/club MaMa in Zagreb, researcher at Jan van Eyck Academie, PatchingZone.nl and PhDArts.eu. He instigated QueerSport.info and qSPORT communities in Croatia/region and currently works on ccSPORT initiative and conteS/Xting SPORT - exhibition and program in Berlin at nGbK.de and in residence of Village.Berlin

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