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 Arosa Gay Ski Week
Arosa Gay Ski Week
Jan 22 – Jan 29 all-day
 
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all-day Wild Wild South 2022
Wild Wild South 2022
Mar 25 – Mar 27 all-day
Wild Wild South 2022
Hello sports enthusiastics and friends, Please mark your calendar! We are hosting our 17th international multisport tournament on March 25th until the 27th 2021 and we would like to invite you! Every other year Abseitz Stuttgart hosts an international multisport tournament that focuses on an open and non-discriminatory atmosphere, the Wild Wild South in Stuttgart, Germany. We firmly believe for the coming spring that we can arrange and adapt to the current global situation and are focusing our efforts to execute the event by keeping an eye on the developments. Offers: We offer competitions in swimming, badminton, football, volleyball, shooting[...]

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