Mike Malone Founders Award - SCBL
Donation protected
PURPOSE: The purpose of this campaign is to honor the memory and celebrate the life of Mike Malone by establishing the Mike Malone Founders Award with the Studio City Bowling League (SCBL), the organization where he served as the founding president and would go on to participate as a member for nearly 30 years.
About Mike Malone, founding president, Studio City Bowling League (SCBL)
Always inspired to bring people together and create a stronger community through a sense of belonging in 1990, Mike and his partner John “JT” Tupper created a new bowling league for the gay community by organizing the Studio City Bowling League (SCBL).
Starting with just ten teams, the league quickly became the largest (128 bowlers), most successful, and inclusive LGBTQ leagues in Los Angeles and one of the largest in the United States openly welcoming allies and advocates from all communities to participate. This was an organization that celebrated diversity.
Each week through the weekly 50/50 raffle drawings, money was raised for various charities. Over the years, tens of thousands of dollars were raised and donated to local and national LGBTQ charities around the United States, including a $4,500 donation to The Stonewall Foundation for the 9/11 Gay & Lesbian Fund.
His involvement in many local gay bowling tournaments helped each of those tournaments succeed and grow, including the annual Los Angeles Silver Screen Invitational Tournament (LASSI), and International Gay Bowling Organization (IGBO) which attracted bowlers from around the world.
In lieu of flowers, his husband Brian O’Connor, invites you to make a donation to help establish this award which will honor Mike now and for many years to come.
My thanks to Larry Potter, Treasurer of SCBL, for partnering with me to manage this campaign with GoFundMe.
About Mike Malone, founding president, Studio City Bowling League (SCBL)
Always inspired to bring people together and create a stronger community through a sense of belonging in 1990, Mike and his partner John “JT” Tupper created a new bowling league for the gay community by organizing the Studio City Bowling League (SCBL).
Starting with just ten teams, the league quickly became the largest (128 bowlers), most successful, and inclusive LGBTQ leagues in Los Angeles and one of the largest in the United States openly welcoming allies and advocates from all communities to participate. This was an organization that celebrated diversity.
Each week through the weekly 50/50 raffle drawings, money was raised for various charities. Over the years, tens of thousands of dollars were raised and donated to local and national LGBTQ charities around the United States, including a $4,500 donation to The Stonewall Foundation for the 9/11 Gay & Lesbian Fund.
His involvement in many local gay bowling tournaments helped each of those tournaments succeed and grow, including the annual Los Angeles Silver Screen Invitational Tournament (LASSI), and International Gay Bowling Organization (IGBO) which attracted bowlers from around the world.
In lieu of flowers, his husband Brian O’Connor, invites you to make a donation to help establish this award which will honor Mike now and for many years to come.
My thanks to Larry Potter, Treasurer of SCBL, for partnering with me to manage this campaign with GoFundMe.
Organizer and beneficiary
BRIAN OCONNOR
Organizer
Palm Springs, CA
LARRY POTTER
Beneficiary