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Melbourne Argonaut Rower Shines at Australian M...
21 May 2006 - 00h46. | glrfcentral | 224 views
Melbourne Argonaut rower Meredith “Maxi” Williams, competing in a composite crew with rowers from the Allan Mitchell Club, rowed to victory in the women’s Masters B 8+ at the 2006 Australian Masters Rowing Championships.
The boat, representing Victoria, won by 0.3 seconds, and clos...
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Gay Rowers Jeered at state-sanctioned Regatta
20 Nov 2005 - 00h17. | glrfcentral | 223 views
In an unusual display of homophobic behaviour at the Rowing Victoria sanctioned Dimboola Regatta, spectators from a well known Melbourne-based rowing club sledged and jeered a boat from the Melbourne Argonauts Queer Rowing Club. Phrases such as “you have to beat the gays” were allegedly shouted f...
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Melbourne Argonauts Queer Rowing Club Commits t...
13 Jul 2005 - 00h23. | glrfcentral | 209 views
The Melbourne Argonauts are gearing up to compete in the Montreal 2006 1st World Outgames regatta. Twenty rowers have already registered and those numbers are expected to climb as the year progresses. In the lead up to the games, the club is hosting a rowing boot camp in Nagambie 23-25 Sep 2005,...
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Crews Converge for Inaugural Midsumma Gay &...
13 Feb 2005 - 20h58. | sandymitchell | 220 views
Meandering through the city center of Melbourne, the Yarra River provided the aquatic landscape for the inaugural Melbourne Argonauts Queer Rowing Club Midsumma Festival Regatta on Sunday 13 February 2005. Organized to coincide with the Midsumma Gay and Lesbian Festival, the event drew two hundre...
Hordes of women are set to invade the northwest Victorian town of Dimboola in December, as part of the second National Lesbian Rowing Camp. Organised by the Melbourne Argonauts Queer Rowing Association, the event is expected to attract women from across Australia. Argonauts vice president Michell...
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Melbourne isn't the Whole World. There'...
13 Sep 2004 - 20h45. | glrfcentral | 199 views
The Melbourne Argonauts are branching out. Argo promoter Sandy Mitchell recently held exploratory talks with Greg Howell, CEO of Rowing Queensland (RQ), about starting a Gay and Lesbian Rowing Club in Brisbane.
The meeting went very well and Sandy came away with the sound impression that RQ woul...
Melbourne Argonauts Rowing Club host a booth at the 2004 Midsumma Festival. See all the images here.
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Melbourne Argonauts Establish Twice Yearly Rowi...
06 Feb 2004 - 20h51. | glrfcentral | 198 views
After the enormous success of the first National Lesbian Rowing Camp at Nagambie in Victoria, Australia, the Melbourne Argonauts have announced the establishment of biannual rowing camps (twice a year for you erg monsters..) .
According to Annie Smith, “the Women’s Camp definitely achieved it’s...
The first Australian National Lesbian Rowing Camp was held over the weekend of 29 November, 2003, in Dimboola, Victoria. Dimboola is a small town (population of around 1500) in North Western Victoria, approximately half way between Melbourne and Adelaide. The attraction of this sleepy country tow...