Dr. Tom Waddell (November 1, 1937 - July 11, 1987) was a gay American sportsman and competitor at the 1968 Summer Olympics who founded the Gay Olympics in 1982 in San Francisco.
 The international sporting event was later renamed the Gay Games after the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) sued Waddell for using the word "Olympic" in the original name.
 The Gay Games are held every four years.
The 2006 Gay Games (Gay Games VII), colloquially called the Chicago Gaymes, was part of a family of international sports and cultural festivals called Gay Games, sanctioned by the Federation of Gay Games and organized by the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender community of the host city of Chicago, Illinois in the United States.
 The competition took place July 15– July 22, 2006.
 The official Gay Games VII slogan was "Where the World Meets."
The Australian-Croatian Soccer Tournament is a tournament run by the Croatian Soccer Federation of Australia and New Zealand, an organisation founded in 1974.
 The inspiration for the tournament came from the successful Croatian-North American Soccer Tournament founded in 1964.
 The Australian tournament kicked off in 1974 with an event staged in Melbourne, Australia where six soccer clubs participated at Melbourne Croatia's ground Montgomery Park in Essendon.
 The tournament was born.
 Although only six clubs participated, it was the beginning, a beginning spawned from Croatia Melbourne's expulsion from the Victorian Soccer Federation, with the clubs leadership including Tony Vrzina and Josip Solic together with Mirko Furjanic the now Honorary President of the Australian Croatian Soccer Tournament being the forerunners in getting the tournament up and going.
 The second tournament was staged in 1975, hosted by Sydney Croatia and taken out by Canberra FC who defeated Sydney Croatia 3-1 in the Final.
 Since then it has gone on to become the largest and oldest ethnic football tournament in Australia, having been hosted in every state and territory except for the Northern Territory.
 It also holds the honour of being the oldest national soccer competition still running in Australia.
The 1986 Gay Games (Gay Games II) were held in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia from October 4-October 29, 1986.
The Gay Games is the world's largest sporting and cultural event specifically for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) athletes, artists and musicians, founded by Tom Waddell, Rikki Streicher, and others.
 The 1994 Gay Games, held in New York City to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, the modern start of the LGBT movement, "overtook the Olympics in size" with 10,864 athletes compared to 9,356 at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and 10,318 at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
The Federation of Gay Games (FGG) is the sanctioning body of the Gay Games which was founded in 1982 by Tom Waddell, after he dealt first-hand with the prejudice towards gay athletes and their inability to openly participate in sporting events.
 The Federation of Gay Games hosts the world's biggest cultural and sporting event for the LGBT community every four years.
 The Federation of Gay Games is founded on the principles of "participation, inclusion, and personal best" and continues to support the LGBT community not only through the Gay Games but through scholarships for underprivileged members.
 The Federation of Gay Games continues to expand throughout the world and accepts members of any sexual orientation and nationality to participate in the games or contribute.
 The FGG is proudly hosting the next Gay Games in 2018 in Paris, France.
The 2014 Gay Games, also known as Gay Games 9, were an international multi-sport event and cultural gathering organized by, and specifically for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) athletes, artists and musicians.
 It was held from August 9 to August 16, 2014 in Cleveland, with some events being held in the nearby city of Akron, Ohio.
 An estimated 10,000 athletes from more than 60 nations participated in 37 sports and cultural events.
The Outgames are a set of series of multi-event sporting competitions for the LGBT community, which is open to all competitors regardless of sexual orientation, or qualification standard.
 They are sanctioned by GLISA, the Gay and Lesbian International Sport Association.
 They derived from the original 2006 World Outgames, when the Montreal organizing committee split with the FGG (Federation of Gay Games) over the organization of the 2006 Gay Games, and created their own sanctioning body and series of Games, with the cooperation of the EGLSF (European Gay and Lesbian Sport Federation), the sanctioning body of the EuroGames.
 After the creation of the World Outgames, regional Games were created to complement the EuroGames, being the North American Outgames and the AsiaPacific Outgames.
 Outgames editions are accompanied by OutFest cultural festivals and OutRights LGBT rights conventions.
 The first convention at the 2006 World Outgames developed the Declaration of Montreal.
The 2010 Gay Games (Gay Games VIII) were held in Cologne, Germany from July 31-August 7, 2010.
The 2014 IGLFA World Championship was the 21st officially recognized world championship event for the IGLFA.
 It was held in Akron, Ohio from August 9th through 15th as the football (soccer) competition part of the 2014 Gay Games.

Question: Which city in Ohio hosted the soccer competition for Gay Games 9?
Answer: Akron