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 2020 Düsseldorf, Germany
EuroGames 2021 Copenhagen, Denmark
EuroGames 2022 Nijmegen, Netherlands
Once a year the EGLSF celebrates a huge European gay 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
News & Events Calendar!
Latest news
Margaret Court controversy
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 [...]
EGLSF Project “CEEYOUSPORT”
The EGLSF CEEYOUSPORT project kicked off successfully with its first workshop in Zagreb at the end of April. The goal of the 2-day-long workshop was to carry out [...]
EGLSF on CAS Ruling on Women Track Athletes
Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruling on women track athletes Discrimination is necessary. This is what the CAS ruling has decided. To level the playing field in women’s athletics [...]
EGLSF board’s statement on progress of Rome EuroGames
On March 17th the EGLSF Assembly passed a motion asking Rome EuroGames organisers to review certain aspects of their organisation in line with EGSLF quality assurance processes. This motion included [...]
EGLSF EuroGames – a strong future ahead
EGLSF is pleased to announce a strong future ahead for our annual European LGBTIQ multi-sport tournament. At the Annual General Assembly this year in Budapest, contracts were signed with Dusseldorf, Germany [...]
Freedom Bike Ride 2016
A friend of mine and me, we got off on the Vyborg Station. About 240 km lied ahead of us. Four days of hard cycling and unpredictable weather. At that [...]
EGLSF at Women’s World Cup Football Diversity House
EGLSF hosted two events at the Diversity House in Paris – set up by the Fare network in Paris for the FIFA Women's World Cup. The first of these events [...]
EGLSF EuroGames – a strong future ahead
EGLSF is pleased to announce a strong future ahead for our annual European LGBTIQ multi-sport tournament. At the Annual General Assembly this year in Budapest, contracts were signed with Dusseldorf, Germany [...]
EGLSF Annual General Assembly Budapest 2019
The EGLSF Annual General Assembly, which took place in Budapest on 15th-17th March, voted in a new co-President - Hugh Torrance. We welcome him and look forward to working with him. [...]
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