National Gay Basketball Association

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The National Gay Basketball Association (NGBA) is an LGBTQ sports organization which exists to promote gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender athletic participation in basketball.[1]

Founded in 2003 by Mark Chambers,[2] who also co-founded the ,[3] to help LGBT players create city leagues, travel teams, and to allow individual players the ability to find a place or team to participate in LGBT basketball events that are held around the world.[4] The organizational board, consisting of Mark Chambers, Ted Cappas,[5] Jeff Hermann[6] and Rob Smithermann,[7] help NGBA incorporated in May 2005.

The NGBA played a key role in the success of the 2006 Chicago Gay Games basketball event by introducing four new categories in men and women's brackets, A division, B division, C division, 35 and older, and 50 and older 3 on 3 half court, Basketball hosting the most teams in the history of the Gay Basketball.

The first official NGBA event was hosted by Salt Lake City in October 2006.[8]

The inaugural World Gay Basketball Championships were scheduled for May 2020 in South Florida.[9]

References[]

  1. ^ Buzinksi, Jim; Zeigler, Cyd (29 July 2008). The Outsports Revolution. Alyson. p. 290. ISBN 978-1-59350-005-4. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
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  3. ^ "Gay Games Update Thai Volleyball and a Basketball Star". The Advocate. 3 August 2010. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  4. ^ Sheppard, Samantha N.; Vogan, Travis (2020). Sporting Realities: Critical Readings of the Sports Documentary. Nebraska: U of Nebraska Press. pp. 78–9. ISBN 978-1-4962-1757-8. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  5. ^ "On the Road to the Gay Games ... - Gay Lesbian Bi Trans News Archive".
  6. ^ S. Wentworth. "Hoop Dreams: Los Angeles league sends four teams to Gay Games". Realjock.com. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
  7. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. Retrieved 2010-02-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. ^ "Focus of gay tourney in Utah? Hoops". 2006-07-29.
  9. ^ Brigham, Roger (29 May 2019). "World gay basketball championships set for 2020". The Bay Area Reporter / B.A.R. Inc.

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