Striving for Inclusion and Acceptance [beyond Tolerance]
Listed below is a worldwide news feed that shows the progress and challenges towards inclusion and acceptance within the sports world.
Each Olympic cycle brings media attention to a select few ‘celebrity’ Olympic athletes while many others may be left standing in the shadows thinking “so what, I’m just chopped liver?”
The reality is that every rower who is at the 2024 Olympics deserves our utmost respect and admiration.
The LGBTQ media is heralding the nine out rowers at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Let’s make sure the all the other LGBTQ rowers get just as much admiration and respect.
The Gay + Lesbian Rowing Federation (GLRF) is proud to announce the 2024 Rainbow Logo Challenge. Rowing national governing bodies, rowing clubs and programmes, and rowing-related businesses worldwide are challenged to update their website logo and social media logo with rainbow colors or create a special rainbow logo for the month of June.
The Gay + Lesbian Rowing Federation (GLRF) is proud to announce the 2023 Rainbow Logo Challenge. Rowing national governing bodies, rowing clubs and programmes and rowing-related businesses are challenged to add rainbow colors to their social media and website logos for the month of June.
The 2022 Rainbow Logo Challenge is a call to action for the global rowing community to openly show their support for the LGBTQ+ community: athletes, coaches, staff, and volunteers, in the month of June.
The logo challenge is important because of the impact social media has on the rowing community. Every social view, be it on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, a blog, or a website, that showcases a rainbow infused logo, tells the visitor this organization values and supports the LGBTQ+ community.
So what if you're not on that team - you don't have to be gay to race at the Gay Games