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 | | Richard M. Uyvari, HOF Treasurer | | | Inducted 2006 [Board Member] | | | Photo: Israel Wright | | Richard M. Uyvari, 62, athlete, real-estate investor, and philanthropist, for 27 years of dedicated service to the LGBT sports community as a bowler, tournament director, leader, fundraiser, and sponsor.
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| He has been president, secretary, or treasurer
of more than a dozen Lincoln Park Lagooners
and Metropolitan Sports Association (now
Chicago Metropolitan Sports Association)
bowling leagues and has served on the boards
of the Lagooners, the sports association, and
the International Gay Bowling Organization (IGBO. | |
| During his sports association board service from 1985 to 1991, the group
became Chicago’s largest LGBT sports organization. | |
| In 1983, he was co-director of “IGBO 83 CHICAGO,” IGBO’s third annual
tournament, which brought 576 gay and lesbian bowlers from throughout the
United States and Canada to a sold-out Waveland Bowl. | |
| In 1988, he founded the Chicago Pride Invitational bowling tournament, and
he has been involved in many bowling fund-raising activities. For instance,
from 1983 to 1992, he co-founded and co-chaired Strike Against AIDS,
which raised some $500,000 for AIDS-related agencies. | |
| Over the past 26 years, Uyvari has bowled in more than 200 LGBT
tournaments and is one of only two persons worldwide who have bowled in
all 26 IGBO annual tournaments. In addition, he has participated in six of the
seven Gay Games (missing only the 2002 event in Sydney), winning a gold, a
bronze, and two silver medals as bowling team captain. | |
| Uyvari and Peg Grey were the first co-chairs of Team Chicago in 1985, prior
to Gay Games II. In 2006, he became co-director of the bowling event for
Chicago’s Gay Games VII. He and his committee worked tirelessly for five
months to produce for nearly 600 bowlers what may have been the most
successful and best-run Gay Games bowling event to date. | |
| Uyvari and his life partner of 37 years, Joe La Pat, were honored at a 2006 Gay
Games celebration for their philanthropy. They sponsored the lesbian soccer
team from Soweto, South Africa, as well as other athletes from around the
world through large donations to the Gay Games VII Outreach Scholarship
Fund. They have also committed to sponsor the 2010 Soweto team for Gay
Games VIII in Cologne. | |
| This biography is as of the induction date. It has not been updated. |
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