This story is absolutely true.
About 30 years ago I was a trustee for the recording academy for 4 years. One role was to decide on any additional music genres or changes we thought should be included. I think we added "crossover" at that time but now that one seemed to disappear.
Back then the Chair for the board of trustees was Leslie Ann Jones. Besides being a very sweet much loved human being, she was also a multiple Grammy Award-winning recording engineer working as Director of Music Recording and Scoring at Skywalker Sound, a Lucasfilm, Ltd. company and in 2018 was inducted into the coveted TEC Awards Hall of Fame. (Wikipedia). And her dad was Spike Jones who kept me entertained on TV when I was a kid in the earlier mid 1900s.
Leslie gave a presentation to encourage the inclusion of gay music as a category for an award. At first I said to myself; "That sounds like a great idea. Beautiful." But then as she continued speaking it began to make less and less sense. I knew she was gay, but even so, at some point I was not understanding completely what she was saying. Yet everyone else in the room was nodding their heads in some level of agreement. Toward the end of her talk I was hit by the realization that she was not saying; "Gay music, but Game Music." I just about fell off my chair.
When the meeting ended I ran right up to Leslie (who I never actually talked to before) and told her that for the first 7/8ths of her talk I thought she was saying "Gay music." She just started laughing out loud and grabbed me and hugged me. She asked me if I realized she was gay and I told her; "Yes." We hugged and laughed. She said; "Wow! I'd better learn to pronounce that more clearly." We completely bonded in one minute.
I would guess she has told this story millions of times. And I bet she's telling it tonight. Because after 30 years "Game Music" has finally become an official category of the Grammy Awards.
Leslie Ann - you were the first I ever heard talk about this, so
congratulations
for "spiking" this idea over the network of grammy music category for a point game score. - Your old buddy - Corky Siegel.