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Against the Rules Exhibition 25 Years

Looking Back on 25 Years of Against the Rules – Lesbians and Gays in Sport On 28 September 28, we commemorate the 25th anniversary of the opening of Against the Rules – Lesbians and Gays in Sport at the German Sports and Olympic Museum in Cologne. Launched in 1999, it was the world’s first exhibition dedicated to queer visibility in sport. The project was initiated to celebrate the 20th anniversary of SC Janus, Germany’s first queer sports club, and was developed in collaboration with the Cologne Center for [...]

Erika Patrikainen2025-09-21T10:20:49+02:00Sunday, September 21st, 2025 @ 10:20|Categories: 2025, News, Sport|Tags: ATR|0 Comments

Statement on FINA banning transgender athletes from women’s races

PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release Contact: Erika Patrikainen EGLSF General Secretary: erika.patrikainen@eglsf.info EGLSF on FINA banning transgender athletes from women's elite races Last Sunday, FINA, the world governing body for swimming, voted to effectively ban transgender athletes from competing in women's elite races with the statement that “male-to-female transgender athletes …. are eligible to compete in the women’s category … if they can establish to FINA’s comfortable satisfaction that they have not experienced any part of male puberty beyond Tanner Stage 2 or before age 12, whichever is later.” Shortly afterwards, the International Rugby League (IRL) issued a statement [...]

Erika Patrikainen2022-06-26T13:43:18+02:00Sunday, June 26th, 2022 @ 13:43|Categories: 2022, Advocacy, External, Press Release, Swimming|0 Comments

EGLSF & Partners Launch Inclusion In Sport (iSPORT) Erasmus+ Sport project

Wednesday, February 24, 202 saw the launch of the Inclusion In Sport (iSPORT) project, which is a two-year project, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. iSport Objectives The iSport Project will promote diversity and social inclusion in sport by bringing together partners from many sectors who traditionally face barriers to sport participation - women, LGBTQI+ community and people with disabilities. The project will promote equal opportunities and awareness of the importance of health-enhancing physical activity through increased participation in, and equal access to, sport for all these sectors. Project outputs will include an online MOOC and an [...]

Sarah Townsend2021-02-24T16:22:51+01:00Wednesday, February 24th, 2021 @ 16:22|Categories: 2021, External, iSport, News, Press Release, Sport|0 Comments

Bern successful in bid for 2023 EuroGames

The EuroGames – a multisport event dedicated to diversity and inclusion– will take place in Bern from July 26th to 29th, 2023. Licensed by the EGLSF (European Gay and Lesbian Sport Federation), and voted by the General Assembly, the decision was announced this week. Bern Pride is to take place at the same time. At the end of July 2023, EuroGames will take place in Bern attracting up to 3,000 athletes. This major annual event is hosted primarily by, and for, the LGBTQI+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, Intersex) community and has been held in different European [...]

Sarah Townsend2020-07-08T11:33:32+02:00Wednesday, July 8th, 2020 @ 11:33|Categories: 2020, Announcements, EuroGames, External, News, Press Release, Sport|0 Comments

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 and with Copenhagen, Denmark for EuroGames 2020 and 2021 respectively, and the Assembly voted the bid for the 2022 EuroGames in Nijmegen, Netherlands. Once a year the EGLSF celebrates a huge European gay sport event: EuroGames - a high-quality sport event for the LGBTIQ sports community. This event promotes the following goals: fight against discrimination in sport on grounds of sexual preference or orientation stimulate integration in sport and emancipation [...]

Sarah Townsend2019-03-18T11:37:48+01:00Monday, March 18th, 2019 @ 11:37|Categories: 2019, EuroGames, External, Multisports|0 Comments