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Would you like to add a news article? Great!  We would love it if you did. All submissions require approval before publication so here are some editorial guidelines:

 

Latest News is meant for articles that are of interest to the gay rowing community and the GLRF community.  Topics of interest might include:

 

  • how your club is doing something for gay rowing or being supportive of the gay community,
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Survey on Rowing Diversity Equity and Inclusion

14 Sep 2022 - 13h02. | glrfcentral | 567 views

USRowing is running a survey on retention and experiences/perspectives with regard to diversity and inclusion. The survey is being run independently by Truclusion and all survey responses will be viewed by them and not USRowing.  Truclusion will then provide a summary of the findings t...

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GLRF hosts booth at 2017 World Champs

01 Oct 2017 - 17h50. | glrfcentral | 418 views


Click on this link to see all the images of the 2017 World Rowing Championship.
The Gay + Lesbian Rowing Federation hosted a booth at the 2017 World Rowing Championships, 23 September – 01 October 2017.   This was the first time GLRF has hosted a booth at a world championship elite event.  Examples of elite events would be Junior, Under23, and Senior cham...

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GLRF at 2016 USRowing Convention

04 Dec 2016 - 20h06. | glrfcentral | 362 views


GLRF banner visible in the background at the USRowing Vendor Village

View all of the images at the 2016 USRowing Convention gallery.
GLRF hosted a vendor's table at the 2016 USRowing convention.  This was the first year that GLRF has hosted a vendor's booth/table at the convention.   The impetus for the display was the promotion of the GLRF Global Inclusion and Acceptance Campaign.  The d...

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Stonewall XXII - a record breaking success

09 Jun 2015 - 18h28. | rowrgrl | 390 views


Scenes of the 2015 Stonewall Regatta.  Click here to see all the images from the regatta.
They called it Stonewall On Steroids.  A record breaking number of entries and a 25% increase in participants pushed the XXII (22nd) Stonewall Regatta to an almost record capacity for a one-day event.  The official regatta tally was 251 entries from 26 clubs with the most dist...

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2014 Gay Games Regatta proves to be medalicious...

11 Aug 2014 - 19h16. | glrfcentral | 668 views


View of the regatta course on the Cuyahoga river.  Click here to see all the images from the event, and to upload your own!
It was a rather mild day for rowing on Sunday 10 August 2014 in Cleveland for the 2014 Gay Games Rowing Regatta.  With partly cloudy skies, a slight breeze out of the southeast, and temperatures only peaking near 80 degrees Fahrenheit ( 27 Celsius) and the humidity at a relative low of...

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2014 Stonewall Regatta - 21st success!

02 Jun 2014 - 20h25. | glrfcentral | 234 views


Boats and crews line up for their race launches.  Click here tosee all the images.
The DC Strokes Rowing Club hosted the 21st annual Stonewall Regatta on Sunday, 01 June 2014, on the Anacostia River in Washington DC.  The regatta has been held continuously since its founding in 1994 in Pelham Bay, in New York City.  Over the years, the regatta has moved twic...

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Rowing Coach attacked and assaulted

26 Jul 2012 - 00h14. | glrfcentral | 279 views


View of one of many remote areas around Lake Michigan
As widely reported in news media around Chicago, and also in the LGBT news site, Chicago Windy Times, Jenn Gibbons, a Chicago-area rowing coach for both juniors and adult rowing programs, was attacked and sexually assaulted in a remote lakeshore area of Lake Michigan. Coach Gibbons was in the mi...

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Chicago Rowing Union Fundraiser

10 Nov 2011 - 02h08. | glrfcentral | 241 views


Chicago Rowing Union 4+ at the 2011 Head of the Rock regatta. Photo credit: Ross Forman, Windy City Times
Chicago Rowing Union recently had a write up in the local gay and lesbian newspaper, The Windy City Times.  The article focused on the club's look back at their 2011 season, and helped to promote the club's end of season fundraiser, a black tie optional prom dance event, to be h...

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Passion and the Water

20 Sep 2011 - 09h20. | glrfcentral | 190 views


Scenes of rowing in British Columbia.  See some of the other images on yankinbc's gallery.
GLRF member yankinbc aka Scott Larsen recently wrote an article for Vers magazine, an online magazine devoted to the GLBT community in Canada and it's supporters. He writes about one of three passions in his life: rowing.  In the article, Scott reflects on rowing and the need for a...

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Rowing and the 2011 Vancouver North American Ou...

26 May 2011 - 22h13. | glrfcentral | 194 views

Vancouver; Although rowing is not a featured sport at the 2011 North American Outgames, there is a two-day masters rowing event that is scheduled for 23 – 24 Jul 2011, the weekend preceding the 2011 North American Outgames, 25 – 31 Jul 2011 .  So if you were hoping to attend or particip...

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Q-Crew Domain Comes Back In From The Cold

01 Oct 2009 - 10h58. | glrfcentral | 178 views

Q-Crew, the Toronto gay and lesbian rowing club that arose from the primordial ooze of Lake Ontario in 1997 to successfully compete at the 1998 Amsterdam Gay Games, and then melted into a sticky puddle on Church Street on a hot summer day in the 2000’s, left behind talented rowers, broken hearts,...

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Cleveland gets the nod for 2014 Gay Games Bid

29 Sep 2009 - 11h20. | glrfcentral | 131 views


Köln by night.
Just watched the live telecast from the Gay Games website and yes, Cleveland was awarded the license to host the 2014 Gay Games.  There will undoubtedly be much discussion about the winning bid but what does this mean for rowers?  Like Boston, and Washington, Cleveland include...

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Rowing featured in all three bids for the 2014...

25 Apr 2009 - 23h13. | glrfcentral | 151 views

Three US cities have submitted bids to host Gay Games IX in 2014: Boston, Cleveland, and Washington.  All three bids feature rowing in their sports compliment.  Every bid must describe the venue, the organizational support, the expected participant makeup, the competition form...

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2009 Austin Winter Retreat Cancelled

17 Dec 2008 - 23h48. | glrfcentral | 90 views

GLRF member Karl S. relayed the news that the 10th annual Austin Winter Retreat has been shelved for 2009.  Sara Mai Conway, Austin Rowing Club's new Club Manager, indicated in an email to retreat organizers that the club's facilities for the President's Day Weekend had alre...

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Mexico becomes the 27th country in the GLRF com...

21 Jul 2008 - 23h52. | glrfcentral | 98 views


Visit the GLRF Mexico page
A junior’s visit to one of the 2008 GLRF regatta booths has resulted in the first registration from Mexico. The rower asked if they could join, after seeing that Mexico was not on the booth’s posterboard display of GLRF worldwide communities.  The rower, from Mexico City, marks the fulf...

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2009 World Outgames Preview Tour - US east coast

13 Jun 2008 - 20h08. | glrfcentral | 126 views

The 2009 Copenhagen World Outgames staff will be hitting the US eastern seaboard campaign trail in June. Outgames’ Director of Sports Tommy Kristoffersen and his entourage will be hitting four cities: Boston, Washington DC, Philadelphia, and New York City. Rowers can find information about the ev...

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A new play that gives a fresh approach to teena...

05 Feb 2007 - 23h58. | glrfcentral | 92 views

A new gay-themed rowing play by Anton Dudley, Honor and The River, has opened to rave reviews in New Jersey. The play focuses on a teenage boy’s isolation at a boarding school, the sadness for his deceased father, and his longing for one of the guys on the crew team, Honor. The play runs 03 Feb -...

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Vancouver Great Eight profiled in media

07 Jul 2006 - 17h34. | glrfcentral | 85 views


Vancouver Rowing Club Great Eight. Photo credit: Jonathan Taggart
Vancouver Rowing Club's racing squad known as the The Great Eight has been training to compete at the 2006 Montreal Outgames.  Xtra! reporter André Beaucage spent some time with the team and learned about how training for the Outgames as part of a rowing team has helped some of...

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2006 Montreal 1st World Outgames to offer sport...

30 May 2006 - 01h28. | glrfcentral | 125 views

The Organizing Committee of the 1st World Outgames has announced a sports-only registration fee option for all sports. Participants may elect to register for any sport for CA$75. The registration fee entitles an athlete the ability to participate and compete in one sport, receive a participa...

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Chicago’s new ‘Qrew Chicago ‘ rowing team are M...

03 Feb 2006 - 00h07. | glrfcentral | 93 views

They are twelve men intent on winning their races at the 2006 Montreal World Outgames.  They are the Qrew Chicago rowing team.  Having set in motion a demanding training schedule of erg time and 4 days a week of on-the-water practice, this team is determined to bring home the...

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New York City’s Crew New York begin Montreal pr...

01 Dec 2005 - 03h28. | glrfcentral | 77 views

Their last day on the Harlem River was Wednesday, 23 Nov 2005. Reports were that it was a VERY cold row but that last one is always bittersweet for rowers. You never quite want it to end.  However, members of Crew New York already have a goal for next season: winning at the Montreal Wor...

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Crew New York mourns the loss of a fellow rower...

24 Oct 2005 - 03h32. | glrfcentral | 74 views

Members of Crew New York remain dazed and in shock at the loss of a fellow rower during a boating accident on the Harlem River early Monday morning.  Four rowers from the Peter Jay Sharp Rowing Club,  rowing in a straight four, were executing a u-turn just downriver from the 1...

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DC Strokes membership votes for Montreal

01 Oct 2005 - 03h58. | glrfcentral | 74 views

The DC Strokes Rowing Club voted to participate as a team in the 1st World Outgames Regatta.  The decision came after several months of internal discussions among the membership. In the end, the deciding factor was the rowing facilities at the Montreal Olympic Rowing Basin.  T...

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Club d’Aviron Odawagan hosts booth at Montreal...

03 Sep 2005 - 01h31. | glrfcentral | 103 views


Photo courtesy of P. Colas
The sun shone brilliantly as 45,000 visitors descended on Montreal’s Gay Village for a celebration of sport. Labeled Rendezvous dans Le Village, the sports festival offered a preview of the 1st World Outgames with animated demonstration sports from Equipe Montreal (Team Montreal) and several spor...

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GLRF featured in St. Catharines Standard

08 Aug 2005 - 16h58. | glrfcentral | 101 views


Rowers happily pose for a booth photo in exchange for some free GLRF rainbow socks.  Photo credit: GLRF photo
The local media took notice when GLRF hosted its first booth on Henley Island at the 2005 Royal Canadian Henley.  The regatta is commonly acknowledged to be the largest rowing regatta in North America. The sports editor for the St. Catharines Standard stopped in for a chat with GLRF Exe...

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