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New website EGLSF is live

The new website of the EGLSF is finaly live. Like with so many projects, this took us some more time that we expected, but we pulled it off! Since the end of July we soft launched our site. More than 1500 people already visited us and now it's time to go fully live! The first bugs are solved, speed of the website increased a bit and some other 'live' issues has been resolved. We are not there yet, but in the next few months it will be further optimized and new content will be added. The previous website was developed in [...]

EGLSF2020-04-19T16:58:21+02:00Wednesday, August 27th, 2014 @ 8:10|Categories: 2014, Announcements, News|Comments Off

Three exciting job opportunities with ILGA-Europe

ILGA-Europe is currently looking for a Senior Policy Officer, Intern (paid) and Communications and Media Officer (Temporary position) to their staff team in Brussels. More info can be found on their website or click on the positions Senior Policy Officer - Closing date: 17.00 CET, 1 September 2014 Communications and Media Officer (Temporary position) - Closing date: 12.00 CET, 5 september 2014 Internship - 10.00 CET, 27 August 2014

EGLSF2014-08-10T22:41:59+02:00Monday, August 11th, 2014 @ 10:05|Categories: 2014, News|Tags: ILGA-Europe|0 Comments

President Barack Obama welcomes the world to GayGames 9!

Video message of President Barack Obama. Good luck to all participants in Cleveland + Akron!

EGLSF2020-04-19T16:58:22+02:00Sunday, August 10th, 2014 @ 22:20|Categories: 2014, News|Tags: Federation of GayGames, Gay Games 9|0 Comments

Gay Games 9 provides final push for historic survey on homophobia in sport

"Out on the Fields" receives support from Michael Sam to round out responses from US LGBT athletes 8 August 2014 - Gay Games 9, which open tomorrow in Cleveland and Akron, Ohio, will offer thousands of LGBT athletes the opportunity to take part in the first major international survey on homophobia in sports. They will be supported by Michael Sam of the St Louis Rams, one of the world’s highest profile LGBT athletes, who is urging people to take part in the groundbreaking study. The study is the first to collect data about discrimination in the United States as well [...]

EGLSF2014-08-10T18:52:12+02:00Sunday, August 10th, 2014 @ 18:52|Categories: 2014, Members, News|Tags: Federation of GayGames, Gay Games 9, Out on the FIelds, survey|0 Comments

Debate on ‘Is Homosexuality in Sport still a Taboo’

EGLSF Co-President Klaus Heusslein and EuroGames Committee Member Lou Manders (former EGLSF Co-President) met Thomas Hitzlsperger at the debate 'Is Homosexuality in Sport still a Taboo' which had been hosted by the Dutch Embassy at Berlin in June . Hitzlsperger reported to have experienced his coming-out as liberation, especially when he finally felt able to talk with his friends and family about his sexual orientation. He considers such a step as important since it also can enhance performance of athletes. And he added: "Lying is unpleasant!" Unfortunately there still are unpleasant experiences in sport and particularly in football, some of [...]

EGLSF2014-08-06T23:41:35+02:00Wednesday, August 6th, 2014 @ 23:40|Categories: 2014, News|Tags: coming out, football, Thomas Hitzlsperger|0 Comments