2007

Fat Cats Sports Club Association is planning a start of exchange of members with partnering organisations in Europe. The launch of the exchange is planned to be around October 2007. We kindly ask all of you to discuss with the members of your club this possibility to travel to Bulgaria and have lots of fun and great chances for establishing new friendships. Sports are included, too :-)) We could treat your members as our guests, so we will do our best to host most of them here. As we have not a great capacity to meet big groups in one [...]

The last taboo in football loosens. The German Football Association (DFB) has recognised homophobia as a recurrent problem in football. At the first DFB Fan Conference in June in Leipzig, the problem of homophobia in German football was discussed for the first time ever. This week, the European Gay and Lesbian Sport Federation (EGLSF) will hold an international conference about homophobia in football in Antwerp. The „…More than Playing Games“ - Conference on July 12, 2007 will be in remembrance of the only openly gay UEFA referee, John Blankenstein. The Dutch referee led international games for 17 years. He died [...]

The last taboo in football loosens. The German Football Association (DFB) has recognised homophobia as a recurrent problem in football. At the first DFB Fan Conference in June in Leipzig, the problem of homophobia in German football was discussed for the first time ever. This week, the European Gay and Lesbian Sport Federation (EGLSF) will hold an international conference about homophobia in football in Antwerp. The „…More than Playing Games“ - Conference on July 12, 2007 will be in remembrance of the only openly gay UEFA referee, John Blankenstein. The Dutch referee led international games for 17 years. He died [...]

It is with great regret that we have decided to cancel the All England Same Sex Dance Day at the Collesium, Watford on 7th October. Advance payments have been refunded and we stress that the London Open Championships and the All England Championships on the preceding Friday and Saturday go ahead as planned. We have promoted regular dance competitions for many years and from within the regular dance establishment we have used our influence to promote same sex dance - often in the face fierce opposition. When we were approached by same sex dancers to promote a same sex event [...]

The Danish gay sports club in Copenhagen – Pan Idræt - would like to get in touch with young members of other LGBT sports clubs in Europe. Right now they are starting a youth network in Denmark (under the age of 30) and they would like to develop it towards an international perspective. This idea is in process and they would like to meet up with other young gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders - under the age of 30 - who think this is interesting. This is an invitation to a meeting where they will be brainstorming and also developing [...]