Featured events


7-9 September 2012
Brussels Games
Brussels

Brussels Gay Sports will offer a weekend of fun and fairplay in the capital of Europe, with volleyball, swimming, badminton, and tennis, as well as fitness and hiking.

Learn more HERE.
26-28 October 2012
QueergamesBern
Bern, Switzerland

The success of the first edition of the QueergamesBern proved the need for an LGBT multisport event in Switzerland. This year will be even bigger, with badminton, bowling, running, walking, floorball.

Learn more HERE.
17-20 January 2013
Sin City Shootout
Las Vegas
The 7th Sin City Shootout will feature softball, ice hockey, tennis, wrestling, basketball, dodgeball, bodybuilding and basketball.

Learn more HERE.

13-16 June 2013
IGLFA Euro Cup
Dublin
After this year's edition in Budapest at the EuroGames, the IGLFA Euro Cup heads to Dublin for 2013, hosted by the Dublin Devils and the Dublin Phoenix Tigers.

Learn more HERE.

Showing posts with label agora. Show all posts
Showing posts with label agora. Show all posts

Thursday, January 5, 2012

17 January 2012 / Agora du sport in Paris

For the third year in a row, the FGG will be represented at the Agora du sport, a forum on sport and society that will be organized for the second time this year at the Tenniseum, the tennis museum at Rolland Garros, the site of the French Open.

  • Topics of particular interest this year include:
  • Does sport have values?
  • Is sport a mirror of society?
  • The role of sport in forming young people

FGG VP for External Affairs Marc Naimark and Copresident Emy Ritt will be representing the Federation, where they will meet and exchange with academics, businesspeople, athletes, journalists and officials present at the event.

Some recently published photos from last year's Agora:





Wednesday, June 8, 2011

En français / Pétition pour le sport féminin à la télé française

Lors de l'Agora du sport 2011 il y a quelques mois, nous avons eu le "plaisir" d'entendre un ancien responsable du service sports d'une grande chaîne nationale prétendre que s'il n'y avait pas plus de reportages sur le sport féminin dans la presse française, c'est que les sportives françaises n'étaient tout simplement pas assez bonnes... Vivement alors cette pétition de Femmes Solidaires !

Signez la pétition ICI (en bas de la page).

Le droit à la pratique sportive est constitutif des grands combats féministes, car il participe du droit fondamental des femmes à disposer de leur corps. Ceux qui, de par le monde veulent écarter les femmes des terrains de sport sont ceux qui veulent les bâillonner, tentant de les reléguer à un statut subalterne dans la société.

Aujourd’hui, le sport masculin tient une place importante voire exclusive dans les retransmissions télévisuelles. A travers cette campagne intitulée « Pas de filles hors-jeu ! », nous souhaitons affirmer qu’il doit en être autrement. Les manifestations sportives féminines doivent être justement représentées à la télévision, c’est-à-dire de façon paritaire avec les manifestations sportives masculines. La retransmission des événements sportifs est régie par un décret du 24 décembre 2004. Celui-ci énumère les 21 évènements d’importance majeure que les téléspecteurs-trices sont en droit de pouvoir regarder à la télévision. Les évènements sportifs féminins y sont largement sous représentés (7 évènements sur les 21). La Coupe du Monde de football féminin n’y figure même pas. Or celle-ci existe depuis 1991 et la prochaine se tiendra du 26 juin au 17 juillet en Allemagne.

En vertu de l’article 1er du préambule de la constitution de 1958, nous rappelons que : « La loi favorise l’égal accès des femmes et des hommes aux mandats électoraux et fonctions électives, ainsi qu’aux responsabilités professionnelles et sociales. » Par conséquent, nous demandons au Ministre de la culture et de la communication de proposer la modification du décret du 24 décembre 2004* afin qu’il intègre dans les évènements sportifs d’importance majeure les évènements suivants :

Les matchs de l’équipe de France féminine de football inscrits au calendrier de la FIFA. Le match d’ouverture, les ½ finales et finales de la Coupe du Monde de football féminin.

Enfin, la modification de ce décret permettrait au groupe France Télévision d’assumer ses missions de service public en programmant ces matchs à des heures de grande écoute, ce, dès la prochaine Coupe du Monde de football féminin.

*Décret n°2004-1392 du 22 décembre 2004 pris pour l’application de l’article 20-2 de la loi n°86-1067 du 30 septembre 1986 relative à la liberté de communication, au sujet de la diffusion des événements d’importance majeure

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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

FGG participates in Agora du sport

A quote from gay tennis player Bill Tilden is featured in the Museum: "Tennis is more than a sport: it's an art, like the ballet"

The annual Agora du sport conference was held last week at the French National Tennis Museum at the Roland Garros tennis center. The conference was an opportunity to share experiences on a variety of themes. Among the subjects, a session on women in sport, where one of the rare women to head a male sports club (the handball club of Ivry, near Paris), spoke of her pessimism as to the evolution of sports institutions that remain boys clubs. Other speakers, such as French tennis star Nathalie Dauchy, spoke of the impact the lack of media attention has on women's sports. FGG representatives spoke of the custom in LGBT sport of having male and female tandems for key positions, a solution which interested many, but seems difficult to reconcile with current French law (which nonetheless favors in theory gender parity).

One of the participants made a call for action in favor of women's sport at an international level, calling on the International Olympic Committee to enforce its policies and protecting athletes from the intrusion of religion in sport, citing the example of the Iranian girls' team participating in the recent Youth Olympics, who were allowed to compete with their heads covered, contrary to established principles and rules.

Friday, October 15, 2010

ESSEC/Agora du sport panel on sport and business

Earlier this month, FGG sports officer Marc Naimark attended a panel discussion organized by French business school ESSEC and the Agora du sport on the theme of sport and business.

Those speaking on the panel included Vincent Prolongeau, CEO of Pepsico France and president of progressive business organization Entreprise et Progrès, Bernard Laporte, former junior minister for sport, Didier Besseyre, president of both the French and European Federations for Company Sport, Antoine Mindjimba, a manager at Ernst & Young and a former professional hockey player, as well as Professor Thierry Lardinoit and Magali Tezenas du Montcel from the ESSEC.

Among the themes covered was that of sport as a tool for inclusion, raised by Vincent Prolongeau, and an opposition between competitive sport, which was described as exclusionary, and participatory sport and physical activity, which was more desirable within companies. Marc countered that there were many competitive sporting events that respect the principle of sport for all and inclusion, including, of course, the Gay Games (or for that matter, the events organized by the organizations represented by Didier Besseyre).

Contacts made should prove useful for the FGG and/or the FSGL. The main Agora du sport will take place at the Rolland Garros tennis center this January.

Saturday, January 23, 2010

FGG at the "Agora du Sport"


The Federation of Gay Games, represented by co-president Emy Ritt and Sports Committee co-chair Marc Naimark, was invited to take part in a round table held on 22 January on the theme of "Racism and discrimination in sport" as part of the third annual Agora du Sport.

The session, held at the University of Paris X Nanterre campus, was chaired by football champion Lilian Thuram. Thuram, who holds the record for selections to the French national team, including the team that won the 1998 World Cup, is a member of the national council for integration, and has founded the Lilian Thuram Foundation for Education against Racism.