Tom Waddell
Actor · 1937 – 1987 · Paterson, New Jersey, USA
Dr. Tom Waddell was a gay American physician, sportsman and competitor at the 1968 Summer Olympics who founded the Gay Olympics in 1982 in San Francisco.
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Movie6.9HistoryDocumentaryOn the eve of 1987's Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, surviving families and friends of people who have died of AIDS prepare panels to be added to a large-scale memorial quilt project. Drawing from the sea of names memorialized, director Robert Epstein focuses on the lives of six people. Alongside the intimate profiles offered, through news footage and interviews, Epstein puts the AIDS crisis in the larger context of social and government response to the disease.
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
1989 · 19 votes
Movie3.7A documentary look at the Gay Games. From the idea's inception by Dr. Tom Waddell to the splitting of the games for 2006.
Take the Flame! Gay Games: Grace, Grit, and Glory
2005 · 3 votes