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Great article profiling the Sin City Classic and a specific mention of the Sin City Erg indoor rowing event: https://www.gaycities.com/articles/102408/sin-city-classic-offers-the-perfect-queer-excuse-for-a-las-vegas-trip-in-january/
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Hello. Greg here from Woodbury. Where do you row?
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Hello! Greg here from Woodbury. Where do you row?
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Don't miss out! Early registration for the 2026 Sin City Erg wraps up on Nov 17, 2025. Get ready for the Sin City Classic, an awesome LGBTQ multi-sport festival happening from Jan 16-18, 2026. The Sin City Erg is one of 24 featured sports. Check it out: https://sincityerg.org
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UK online publication Scene Magazine covers the decision by the Cambridge University Boat Club (CUBC) to ban trans women rowers from competing in women's college-level boat races. https://www.scenemag.co.uk/cambridge-university-bans-trans-rowers-from-womens-boat-race-in-spite-of-opposition-from-trans-liberation-cambridge/
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Unfortunate that some journalists think paddlers are rowers. Just to clarify, paddlers face forward and rowers face backward. The article focuses on an elite UK paddler who has been banned for two years by Paddle UK and not British Rowing. The article categorizes the athlete as being part of Rowing - Sports. Perhaps it was an over eager AI scripting? Take a look at the URL https://www.outsports.com/2025/11/3/24121408/kurts-adams-rozentals-rowing-paddle-uk-ban-explicity-crazy-instagram-post/
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Out gay rower, Teal Cohen, talks about rowing and her recent gold medal victory in the 4X at the 2025 World Rowing Championship with Outsports. https://www.outsports.com/2025/10/23/24120877/teal-cohen-team-usa-rowing-wprld-champion-lgbtq-gay-role-model/
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GLRF hosts a booth at the 2025 Head of the Charles Regatta, 17 - 19 Oct 2025, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Karl and Robbie Manson approaching the finish in the Men's Championship Doubles. 2nd place finish with a time of 16:22.202 -
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Directors Challenge Mixed Quad Allies with Oars 4x approaching the finish line. Result: placed 28th with a time of 21:09.654. -
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The Gay + Lesbian Rowing Federation will host our fifth indoor rowing event, an ergatta, on Sunday 18 January 2026, in Las Vegas. The Sin City Erg is presented for the worldwide LGBTQ+ indoor and outdoor rowing community, age 13 and over. The event is inclusive to the broader rowing community and everyone is welcome so bring your straight teammates to compete! The ergatta is part of the Sin City Classic, the largest annual LGBTQ+ multi-sport event in the world. If you're looking at the tags and wondering what the 2X, 4X and 8+ is all about, that's because this event is offering standard individual races as well as team events. Everyone registers, then we get a line up for the team events and plug it in the computer. The race runs just like an individual race, except the lineup for each boat is calculated by the computer to show the combined time of the team boat compared to other team boats. First across the line wins, just like on the water. Sounds like a great challenge for university teams, for junior teams, for club teams ....
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untilThe Gay + Lesbian Rowing Federation will host a booth at the 2025 Head Of The Charles Regatta. Stop by and learn about our Global Rowing Community. Use our new app to access our community platform and register for free, in just a few minutes. Help support our initiatives to promote inclusion, acceptance, and promoting rowing in the LGBTQ community: The Rower’s Pledge Rainbow Logo Challenge Rowing Enquiries and Share A Link Get a GLRF t-shirt and show your true colors! Dates: Friday, 17 Oct 2025: 10h00 – 18h00 Saturday, 18 Oct 2025: 07h30 – 18h30 Sunday, 19 Oct 2025: 07h30 – 17h30 Location: exact location to be announced General area: Christian Herter Park On Soldiers Field Road and across from the Harvard football stadium Along the Charles River Boston, Massachusetts United States
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2026 Valencia Gay Games Regatta
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The Valencia Gay Games will feature rowing. The details for the regatta are not specified nor is the venue. In the bid for the 2026 Gay Games, rowing was specified to be a coastal competition in quads. There is no information on the exact dates of the regatta or how boats will work since most of us don't have coastal boats. No word on whether there is a rental fee. As details are updated, information will be updated here. The registration fees for rowing include a general registration fee of US$195 and a supplemental sport fee for rowing of US$95.00.
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The GLRF Newsletter, Cox Box Squax Issue 076, is now online. Find it here:
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The Lachine rowing club is proud to present its seventh coastal rowing regatta on Lac St-Louis in Lachine on Sunday August 17, 2025. The regatta will be a FISA style course consisting in a 6 km course on the Lac St-Louis with 7 turning buoys. This year we will again propose a Junior course with a length of 1 km in the Lachine basin. In case of a high number of participants in a category there will be heats of 4 km to determine the finalists. We propose several categories such as solo, double and quad for Men and Women and if possible, a mixed quad category. EuroDiffusion boats will be available for rent.
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In partnership with Rowing Canada Aviron and Aviron Québec, the Lachine rowing club presents the Quebec Beach Sprint Championship at the spectacular Cap St-Jacques beach in Pierrefonds, Montréal, on August 16th, 2025. Come discover this incredible rowing discipline! This regatta includes a land portion and a water portion. At the starting signal, two rowers will have to run towards their boat, embark and do a slalom around 3 buoys over a distance of 250m. The return is done in a straight line, will disembark the boat to run towards the finish line. EuroDiffusion’s and RowingSportBoat coastal rowing boats will be provided. The rental price of the boats is included in the registration fees.
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The BBC profiles lesbian Paralympic rower Lauren Rowles, gold medalist in the PR2 Mixed Double at Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020, and Paris 2024.
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Huge shout out to all of the 2025 Rainbow Logo Challenge participants. Your courage and conviction in celebrating Pride month and the LGBTQ rowing community is amazing! Thank you Marin Rowing Association and @chicagorowingunion @werowlikethis @usrowing @rowingcanada @criboston @rowfluidesign @oartherainbow @wes_wcrew @gentlegiantrowing @row2k @rowlakemerritt @northshoremaritimecenterinc @tacomarowing @rowhouse_westseattle @loverowing @eastbayrowingclub @thecatch97 @culionsrowing @ostraroddistriktet
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CRI Pride Row 2025
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untilJoin Community Rowing, Inc. for a celebratory Pride Row on the Charles River! CRI will have two barges available for an easy and enjoyable row, open to all. This event welcomes everyone and is a celebration of community, inclusion, and pride on the water. CRI has also invited rowers from Cambridge Boat Club, Riverside Boat Club, and Union Boat Club to take part in the festivities. All are welcome!
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Guest has submitted Lake Merritt Rowing Club to the 2025 Rainbow Logo Challenge
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Guest has submitted Gentle Giant Rowing Club to the 2025 Rainbow Logo Challenge
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Guest has submitted Wesleyan Women's Crew to the 2025 Rainbow Logo Challenge
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Guest has submitted Oar The Rainbow to the 2025 Rainbow Logo Challenge
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I am the author of a new queer rowing romance called See You At The Finish Line, set against the backdrop of the Oxford v Cambridge Boat Race. I did an event at Cambridge Waterstones last night which was attended by several LGBTQ+ rowers who mentioned how excited they were to learn of this book's existence, so I thought I'd do some outreach to your community. It is currently published in the UK and set to be published in Australia in August and the US and Canada in September, but is already available in many countries either on import or Kindle. I will be reaching out to various queer rowing organisations, but hope you are happy for me to share this news here! The book has been called "a triumph" by Publishers Weekly, while Kirkus Reviews said "This sweet, slow-burn romance will appeal to readers who loved Red, White & Royal Blue, but the dynamic setting and crisp banter in Hammett’s impressive debut are totally his own. A swoony, unputdownable story" I rowed myself at school including on the Thames and at Henley and still keep it up on the erg, so I hope you find the book accurate enough in its portrayal of rowing!
