What benefits can GLRF offer you?

1. Connect to an instantaneous worldwide network
2. Join a local group or start your own
3. Engage in a global message forum
4. Participate in communities with a geographic focus and/or an athlete interest.
5. Keep current on regional events and global news.
6. Find a seat in a boat or fill an empty seat in your own boat.

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What does it cost?

Registration is free. When you register, you become a Shoreside Member and you gain access to most of the GLRF website. 

Our paid, premium OnTheWater membership, gives members access to unique GLRF resources like the Find A Rower and the Seat Search programs. The annual membership fee helps to support GLRF in its day to day operations like this website, and promotions at regattas.

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Is there a club membership category?

No, GLRF is an individual membership organization. Clubs have enough on their plates, with dues supporting their boathouse fees, their equipment, and the regattas. Some club members may feel their existing dues are better spent elsewhere. Individual memberships allow us to refine our understanding of our community. By defining our membership base through, gender, geography, age, and experience, we can solicit support from national rowing associations, and better serve the needs of our community. As individuals we share the opportunity to contribute equally, whether we row as part of a club or scull on some lost lake in Santa Barbara. 

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Creating a connected community

The Gay + Lesbian Rowing Federation provides an instantaneous way to connect with gay and lesbian rowers, coaches, coxies, and race officials from around the world.

However you participate in the rowing community, be it through a regatta or national rowing association, with a regular club, on a school team, as an independent sculler, or on a national training team, GLRF provides a means to connect all of us.

We’re inclusive to the broader rowing community

• Are you an adaptive rower? GLRF offers a fixed seat option in our membership registration form.
• Are you a race official or regatta organizer? You’re a part of our rowing community and we welcome your membership.
• Are you a rower who supports the gay community? You are most welcome! We don’t ask anyone’s sexual orientation - just their gender.

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Help us promote rowing

GLRF seeks to promote rowing in the larger gay and lesbian community. Many people want to row but don’t know how to get started, unless they know a rower. With a worldwide, connected network, we can help spread the word.

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Give our community visibility

By registering with GLRF, you put a face, a name, and a stature to a vast population of rowers. Your membership provides recognition at local, collegiate, and national levels, and it provides a central point of contact that can instantly provide representation and explanation (which unfortunately is still needed).

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Our membership is worldwide:

• Al Emarat
• Argentina
• Australia
• Belgique
• Bharat
• Brasil
• Canada
• Ceska republika
• Danmark
• Deutschland
• Ellas
• Espana
• France
• Hrvatska
• Indonesia
• Iran
• Ireland
• Italia
• Kenya
• Magyarorszag
• Malaysia
• Mexico
• Nederland
• New Zealand
• Norge
• Oesterreich
• Paraguay
• Poland
• Portugal
• Qatar
• Rossiya
• Slovenija
• Srbija
• Suid-Afrika
• Suisse
• Sverige
• Turkiye
• United Kingdom
• United States
• Yisra’el