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Title: Martin Jones collection of Gay Games material
Dates: 1990-2018
Collection Number: 2018-80
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 1.25 linear feet (1 carton)
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: Materials collected by Martin Jones related to the Gay Games. Jones (March 28, 1943-June 12, 2018) participated in the Gay
Games for several years representing team San Francisco, including running as a long distance marathoner in 1998, 2002, and
2006, in Sydney, Amsterdam, and Chicago.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
Copyright to material created by the donor has been transferred to the GLBT Historical Society; other rights reserved. All
requests for reproductions and/or permission to publish or quote from material must be submitted in writing to the GLBT Historical
Society Archivist.
[Identification of item]. Martin Jones collection of Gay Games material. Collection Number: 2018-80. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of James (Jim) Fox, October 2018-September 2019.
Scope and Content of Collection
Materials collected by Martin Jones related to the Gay Games. Jones (March 28, 1943-June 12, 2018) participated in the Gay
Games for several years representing team San Francisco, including running as a long distance marathoner in 1998, 2002, and
2006, in Sydney, Amsterdam, and Chicago. Jones won medals in those games. Jones spent his later years in Northern California,
in Guerneville, CA. He was active in local gay community organizations. The collection includes Gay Games programs and other
printed material, ephemera and pins, a CD and a DVD of Gay Games 2006, VHS recordings of Gay Games Sydney 2002 and Gay Games
Amsterdam 1998, Team San Francisco jackets, shirts, and a sweatsuit, a race bib, Gay Games medals, photographs and 35mm slides,
a large Gay Games banner, and other material.
GSSO Linked Terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000374; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_008529
Gay men
Sports