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Bringing new participants to the Gay Games is critical to continuing the growth of the Gay Games Movement, which began in 1982. Through the outreach efforts of the Federation of Gay Games (FGG) and Games Cologne GmbH, more people within and outside the LGBT community can learn about and are inspired to participate in a Gay Games event. The outreach area for Games Cologne GmbH is Eastern Europe and applications are now being accepted for the scholarship program. Scholarships will be available for one or more of the following: Basic event registration fees (participatory athletic and cultural events); Travel costs [...]

EGLSF is proud to see the two international world LGBT sport events to be held in Europe in 2009 and 2010 - Outgames and Gay Games, both organised by our member clubs. The World Outgames will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark between July 25 and August 22, 2009, and if you hurry, you may still be able to register at http://www.copenhagen2009.org. The Gay Games will be held in Cologne, Germany from July 31 to August 7, 2010, and registration for these games is already open at http://www.games-cologne.de. Since the two global LGBT sports events are held in Europe in 2009 [...]

Statement by Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe Everyone knows that homosexuals were arrested and sent to concentration camps by the Nazis, but it is less well known that after they were freed from the camps, many homosexuals were forced to serve out their terms of imprisonment. This may seem shocking, but it was consistent with the deeply rooted discrimination against homosexuals in Europe at that time. And it was also consistent with the discrimination against homosexuals in the decades which followed. It was not until 1990 that the World Health Organisation removed homosexuality from their list [...]

The French Premier League authorities (Ligue de Football professionnel - LFP) and Paris Foot Gay (PFG) will unite their efforts on May 17th for the World Day against homophobia. For the first time, a national event will be held in association with professional clubs committed to fight discriminations. During the 36th day of the Premier League championship, several events will be organized in Premier League stadiums: a video cofinanced by the LFP will be shown on giant screens at the Parc des Princes (Home stadium of the Paris Saint Germain club in Paris), at the Geoffroy Guichard stadium in Nantes [...]

Australian Matthew Mitcham, the winner of the 10-metre platform at the Beijing Olympics, said last week that his decision to talk openly about being gay may have prevented him from getting the proper sponsorship deals. The 21-year-old came out in a newspaper interview before Beijing, where he made history by receiving the highest mark for an individual dive at Olympics. Although Mitcham received positive feedback from fellow athletes and the media since coming out publicly, he admits he has attracted substantially less sponsorship compared to other gold medalists. "As soon as anybody looks up to you, you automatically become a [...]