Tom Waddell

Birth : 1937-11-01, Paterson, New Jersey, USA

Death : 1987-07-11

History

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.

Movies

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
Self (archive footage)
On 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.