Light in the Water

Early footage of the West Hollywood Swim team (later renamed West Hollywood Aquatics after they added water polo) features handsome swimmers in the California sunshine, blissfully unaware of the challenges that HIV and AIDS would present within a few short years. Sporting organisations were homophobic and many in the LGBTQ+ community saw sport as something alien to them. However, with the foundation of the Gay Games, the swimmers from the team came into their own. We meet participants from across the decades, charting how the LGBTQ+ swim team became a professional force to be reckoned with, as...