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COMMUNITY GROUPS Expo '99 to showcase GLBT sports groups

Columbus-Team Columbus makes its debut with the Sport and Recreation Expo 1999, on April 15 at the YWCA Downtown Columbus from 7 to 11 pm.

Team Columbus is a resource and networking organization that strives to unify and promote sport and recreational opportunities for gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgendered individuals and friends in the greater Columbus community.

Expo 1999 will showcase sport and recreational opportunities in

selves out there a little." Thus, the idea for the expo was born.

Groups involved in the expo, Hamparian said, "will include Ohio Splash, a masters swimming team, a Scrabble group, the various volleyball leagues and tournaments, bowling leagues, softball leagues, the Stompers, darts groups-the choruses are even involved.”

The Columbus Metropolitan Tennis Organization will be at the expo, accepting applications for the 1999

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the Columbus GLBT community. The expo will feature informational booths, vendor areas, and entertainment and athletic activities from member organizations. The goal of Expo 1999 is to increase awareness and participation in Team Columbus.

Team Columbus came into being shortly after the conclusion of the Gay Games in Amsterdam last August.

"People from Columbus who went to the Gay Games came back with a feeling that there was not a unified organization to represent Columbus," said Matthew Hamparian, one of the expo coordinators. "As a result, people got together with [Stonewall Columbus director] Jeff Redfield to put together a group that would be selfgoverning, that would serve as a fundraising umbrella, so that all the sports related organizations would have a place to look."

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"Right now, we're working on a logo and trying to be more visible in the community," he said.

The YWCA is located at 65 South 4th St. For more information on Team Columbus, including cost to rent a booth at the expo, call the Expo Line at 614265-7363, ext. 11.

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