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GLISA and FGG nominated 14 members of the Working Group for the one quadrennial global lgbt sport event (2018 onward). EGLSF strongly salutes this step, which was one of the first concrete steps after the announcement of willingness for cooperation between both organisations, taken at the EGLSF Annual General Assembly in March 2010 in Manchester, UK. Kurt Dahl, FGG co-president, stated: "Based on the request to collaborate from the international LGBTQ community, we, FGG and GLISA, have formed this Working Group. We know the task at hand is a difficult one, but we are confident that this group can create [...]

Russia created a federation of LGBT sports and the organization calls for LGBT-activists in the region to participate. Russian LGBT-Sport Federation was founded by group of Russian sportsmen right after Gay games in Cologne. The goals of the Federation are: 1. To organize and support national team, able to participate in international LGBT sports events (Gay games, Eurogames, regional tournaments) 2. To organize LGBT-tournaments in Russia 3. To support Russian LGBT sport clubs and organizations, LGBT sportsmen 4. To promote sports and healthy lifestyle within LGBT community They welcome new members, partners and participants. If you are ready to organize [...]

Outsports, based in Los Angleles, USA, was founded in November 2000 by Jim Buzinski and Cyd Zeigler, Jr with the mission to build a broad, deep, informative and entertaining gay sports community. Although Outsports covers mostly the news and events in the USA or North America in general, the European Gay & Lesbian Sport Federation (EGLSF) recognises the importance of such a community, and congratulates Outsports for their anniversary. EGLSF otherwise also offers similar services, focusing on the European community and its member clubs. www.outsports.com

Registration for the 13th edition of the EuroGames is open! Rotterdam (ranked world’s best festival city of 2010 in the category mid-sized cities) will be hosting this event from July 20 to July 24 2011 and offers you a wide variety of exciting sports and cultural events. Participants can subscribe for at least 30 different sports, and for every sport there will be a minimum number of participants in order to organize a relevant competition. EGLSF-members early birds pay only € 70 for almost every sport for registration before March 1, 2011. Stay tuned to www.eurogames2011.eu for the latest sport [...]

EGLSF Exhibition Against the Rules - Lesbians and Gays in Sport (Gegen die Regeln) was recognised by the German alliance for democracy and tolerance (Bündnis für Demokratie und Toleranz) as the best project in the 2010 call for actions on democracy and tolerance. The exhibition was selected as a model so it will be additionally promoted, and EGLSF is also to receive an award at a reception in the first quarter of 2011. You may hire the exhibition; for more information please see website. www.eglsf.info/exhibition/