Can Copenhagen Be Final World Outgames?

World Outgames 2 kicks off a week-long festival of sports, conferences and parties in Copenhagen this weekend, and tight budget monitoring and scaled back operations make it safe to predict the sporting event will not be a financial fiasco on par with World Outgames 1, which three years ago ended in Montreal with a loss of several million dollars.

But speculation is growing that there will be no World Outgames 3.

LGBT sports blogs have been filled in recent weeks with calls for the World Outgames to disband. The official final report for this year’s event acknowledges the tough sell organizers faced in a divided LGBT sports market.

The rival Federation of Gay Games was asked by Copenhagen organizers to conduct a panel discussion during the Outgames on the future of the LGBT sports calendar and was reportedly shocked by the heavy interest expressed by others to attend. And an independent public blog devoted solely to the topic of the future of LGBT sports was launched just this week. See

Can Copenhagen Be Final World Outgames?

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