Oh the games gays play! in Australia even...

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Gay Games Sydney

Even though I've been looking forward to this event for the past four years, and I've wanted to go to Australia for the past 20 years, I've had to cancel my trip. I could afford to go, but doing so would evaporate my "cushion" financially and being out of work for a year with no promising prospects on the horizon, that has to be my first consideration.

While I am utterly heart broken about not going, I feel good about being responsible and ultimately it feels like I'm doing the right thing.

I had hoped to go as a spectator. I used to play volleyball with a team in London and I went to the last games to support them. I've been toying with the idea of playing volleyball again and I've talked to some of the guys on the Team SF Volleyball Squad. They practice every Saturday at like 9am which seems a bit severe as it's the only day of the week that I really get to sleep in these days...