European Gay & Lesbian Sport Federation

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stimulate integration in sport and emancipation of athletes regardless of their gender identity or sexual orientation

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exchange information and enable co-ordination between European sport groups and tournaments tournamentstournaments

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liaison with and support athletes who are thinking about coming out

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support the founding of new sport groups inclusive of all athletes

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fight against discrimination in sport based on gender identity & sexual orientation tournamentstournaments

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EuroGames 2022 Nijmegen, Netherlands

EuroGames 2023 Bern, Switzerland

Once a year the EGLSF celebrates a huge European LGBTIQ+ sport event: EuroGames. Besides offering a high-quality sport event to the LGBTIQ+ sports community, EGLSF wishes to promote the following goals, also through the EuroGames:

  • fight against discrimination in sport regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity

  • stimulate integration in sport and emancipation of LGBTIQ athletes

  • enable and support the coming out of LGBTIQ athletes

  • support the founding of new LGBTIQ groups

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Margaret Court controversy

Monday, January 27th, 2020 @ 21:12|0 Comments

EGLSF have followed the controversy surrounding the acknowledgement of Margaret Court’s tennis achievements. Successful sportspeople are role models and to have them vilify entire communities, as Margaret Court has done [...]

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all-day Lotos Cup Bratislava 2021
Lotos Cup Bratislava 2021
Nov 19 – Nov 21 all-day
Lotos Cup Bratislava 2021
VOLLEYBALL + FLOORBALL + BADMINTON + RUNNING friends are warmly invited to LGBTI tournaments “Lotos Cup Bratislava 2021” :-) Already the 9th edition of our international LGBTI sport event will take place in autumn Bratislava again. Main playing day will be Saturday (20 November 2021), ending with “Lotos Cup Afterparty”. We recommend to you to arrive on Friday because of accreditation and to avoid time stress. Mixed teams are very much welcomed. In case you do not have the whole team available, players can register also individually and we assign them to other teams. – Volleyball: https://forms.gle/C6kVX9fmuo6CLw5w9 – Floorball: https://forms.gle/qebF5fCaQBbCpXmp9 – Badminton: https://forms.gle/EdZzxpcdjyxnPhcVA[...]

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