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Last 10 October, EGLSF had the opportunity to attend A Pride House Summit, a meeting with former and future PH hosts, organised by Pride House International (with whom EGLSF has worked in the past) and hosted by Paris 2018 Gay Games. Chaired by Lou Englefield (former EGLSF copresident and director of Pride Sports UK), the summit gave the audience the opportunity to know how past PH were created and managed, thanks to the talks and discussions held by Dean Nelson, from the Vancouver Pride House (organised last summer in occasion with the last Women's World Cup), Hugh Torrance (PH Glasgow, Commonwealth Games 2014) [...]

As every year, the EGLSF took part in the annual conference of the International Lesbian and Gay Association in Europe, ILGA, that took place in Athens (for the first time in Greece) last week. Many Voices, One Movement: Together, mobilised for a just society was the title and there, EGLSF had the opportunity to meet again other ILGA members but also to speak about our tasks and work within the sports world to other activists not from our continent but also from the rest of the world. The conference was divided into three very intense days in which delegates had the [...]

The European Gay and Lesbian Sports Federation and LEAP Sports Scotland, have signed a contract for the next EGLSF Annual General Assembly to be hosted in Glasgow and organised by LEAP Sports Scotland. The Assembly generally attracts around 80 LGBTI sports activists from across Europe. Next year’s event will take place on the 5th and 6th March 2016 and will be preceded by the recently announced ‘Diverse Identities in Sport’ conference on Friday 4th March. The one day conference will focus on issues of transgender, intersex, non-binary, genderqueer, asexual and other diverse identities LEAP Sports Scotland won the right to [...]

Letzi Junxx hosted the 17th international network meeting of the “Queer Football Fanclubs” (QFF) last month. Around 80 delegates were happy to welcome representatives of the new QFF members FFaH and fare, as well as international guests from the English LGBTIQ alliance “Pride in Football“ along with John Ryan from the board of the EGLSF. New and different perspectives combined with fresh ideas turned out to be a big asset for the conference and valuable insights initiated many fruitful discussions. But not only football fans are committed to tackling homophobia and discrimination. As Mayor Corine Mauch emphasized in her welcome speech, tolerance, solidarity and equality are equally held high in the city of Zurich. “There is no place for homophobia, [...]

The 18th ENGSO Forum took place in Brussels on 11-12 September 2015 within the framework of the European Week of Sport (EWoS), namely on the EWoS focus day dedicated to sport clubs. European sport issues were tackled: this time, the role of sport clubs in activating citizens and accommodating to changing societies. Next to widening the participants& knowledge, the Forum also provided a platform for interaction and exchange among ENGSO member organisations, partners and decision-makers, giving an informative and inspiring atmosphere to the event. On Friday, 11 September 2015, prior to the Forum, the ENGSO EU Funding Seminar was organised. Experts [...]