Doubt Over 2014 Gay Games

The future is so unclear for the 2014 Gay Games, amid legal action and fighting.
Cleveland was awarded the 2014 Games in October 2009, when the FGG selected the Ohio city over bids from Boston and Washington, D.C. The Cleveland Synergy Foundation was the winning host organization.

But then last summer—ironically on the heels of Gay Games VIII in Cologne, Germany—rumors started that there were "issues" between the Synergy Foundation and FGG. Ultimately, FGG officials terminated the license agreement they awarded to the Synergy Foundation because, according to the FGG, the Synergy Foundation failed to meet its obligations under the agreement.

FGG then announced that the Games would remain in Cleveland in 2014, with a new Cleveland-based local organizing group.  However, it now appears that the Synergy Foundation have filed lawsuits against the FGG for breach of contract and defamation!

Officials with the Synergy Foundation went the legal route, hoping a judge will declare FGG's new licensing agreement with the Cleveland Special Events Corp. "null and void," thus forcing FGG to return the license to Synergy.
"We believe that the evidence will clearly show that they … are in breach of the license agreement with us and that they have no authority to award the license to another entity," Synergy attorney Richard Haber told the Washington Blade.

Haber added that FGG's bidding rules, which he said were part of the agreement with the Synergy Foundation, prevent the FGG from awarding the license to an entity other than the ones who submitted bids for the Games—and the Cleveland Synergy Foundation was the lone Cleveland-area group to submit a bid.

So what's the FGG take on the 2014 Games?   Who knows,   they sure are not replying to Windy City emails!

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