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 Lambda Basketball League, [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]

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  6. ↑ S. Wentworth. "Hoop Dreams: Los Angeles league sends four teams to Gay Games". Realjock.com. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
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  8. ↑ "Focus of gay tourney in Utah? Hoops". Deseret News . 2006-07-29.
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