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The Gay + Lesbian Rowing Federation will host a booth at the 2025 Head Of The Charles Regatta.
 
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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

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 .... 

The Gay + Lesbian Rowing Federation hosted its fourth indoor rowing event, the Sin City Erg, on Sunday, 19 January 2025, in Las Vegas, United States.  The event is part of the multi-sport festival known as the Sin City Classic.  The event draws over 8,000 participants who compete in 24 (at last count) sport and club tourneys, and is the largest annual LGBTQ+ sporting event in the world.
 
Framed as the Global LGBTQ+ Indoor Rowing Event, the 2025 Sin City Erg was held in the gymnasium of the Cambridge Recreation Center.  Twenty-one ergs were laid out in a two-row semicircle that faced a large projection screen.  A total of 61 events were offered in 1X, 2X, 4X, 8X, PR1, PR2, and PR3, for men, women, and non-binary genders.  The team events use a feature of the Concept2 race software that allows multiple participants to race as one boat. 
 
A total of 20 participants competed across 37 entries in 8 events:
 
·         Over 44 men
·         Over 44 women
·         Under 45 men
·         Under 45 women
·         Open Women
·         Open Men
·         Team 2X Under 45 men
·         Team 2X Under 45 women
 
Participants hailed from Washington, Maryland, Florida, California, and Nevada.
 
Medals were awarded for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places. 
 
The 2025 Sin City Erg marked the first active use of the Regattas+ listing feature on the GLRF website.  Take a look. GLRF members added themselves to Members Going.  Images were uploaded to albums. Results were added to Files. Comments were posted. The Seat Search feature was used for a Team 4X event.
 
The Regattas+ feature is available to any GLRF member to add a regatta, ergatta, or camp/clinic that would be of interest to the LGBTQ rowing community and/or that a GLRF member will be attending and hopes to meet up with others.
 
Do you have news that would be of interest to our community? Any GLRF member can add a news article. As long as the news article is rowing-related, it will be approved!

The Gay + Lesbian Rowing Federation is excited to unveil the new Rainbow Logo Challenge application, appropriately on the start of June Pride month and with the launch of the 2025 Rainbow Logo Challenge. The application is the final part of the launch of GLRF Version 2.0. 
 
The premise of the Rainbow Logo Challenge is for organizations to incorporate rainbow colors in their social media and website logos.  The application displays each entry along with those media sites that feature an organization’s rainbow-colored logos. 
 
Both GLRF members and guests can now directly submit entries for the Rainbow Logo Challenge, which facilitates the uploading of rainbow logos directly from clubs, programmes, organizations, and businesses.  This means the logos are the actual image instead of some version of right click and save.
 
As an international organization, the Gay + Lesbian Rowing Federation recognizes that some countries celebrate Pride month during months other than June: Deutschland, Danmark, Nederland, to name a few.  For that reason, we included a month selection feature for each challenge entry, and we also featured a field to allow for the local spelling of the month name.  We feel this allows for increased inclusivity, and a recognition that each of our rowing communities and global Pride month celebrations are unique.
 
The application now displays all challenge entries by year and presents a compelling list of clubs, organizations, and businesses that actively support the LGBTQ rowing community.
With the introduction of the optional month selection, the Rainbow Logo Challenge now becomes a year-long engagement, providing more sustained visibility and support for the LGBTQ+ community within the rowing world.  It acknowledges the diversity of Pride month celebrations globally.
 
We believe this new application is a positive change that can expand the reach and impact of the Rainbow Logo Challenge initiative