Gay Games VI bid comparisons

NEW: Read my rebuttal to a flagrantly inaccurate Xtra article about Toronto's Gaymes bid.

Well, we now know who'll be hosting Gay Games VI: Sydney. (Official announcement; Sydney's announcement; news article.) It's the right choice.

I would like to express my relief that the whole procedure is over. Due to various pressures in my Real Life, I was bearing the brunt of a lot of stress, and it showed. On the other hand, the Toronto bid committee and the Federation of Gay Games politburo also behaved badly. All I can say is: I'm not this acerbic in real life. Not one-on-one, anyway.

Background

These pages represent a list of custom-written, independent reviews, criticism, and analyses of the bids for Gay Games VI in 2002. The bid cities, who have all applied to the Federation of Gay Games, are Sydney, Toronto, Montreal, Dallas, and Long Beach<slash>Los Angeles (contacts page).

Available analyses include:

NEW! Questions for bid committees at the Denver selection meeting
Examination of expected participant numbers in various sports
Budget analysis
An exhaustive set of detailed reviews of the cities' bid documents. (Page references are denoted in brackets: [6] [ix] [3.9].) Choose from: Long Beach, Montreal, Dallas, Sydney, Toronto (with a separate article on an early Toronto bid meeting)
Notes on the analyses

Important note

I'm using the HTML tables function for much of this information. It looks fine in Lynx for the sports page and is unreadable in the budget analysis. I have no immediately obvious way of turning the budget document into an understandable text-only variant without spending two days on it. Anyone with problems can mail me. The detailed analyses look OK in any browser.