CDG Brasil at LGBT business fair

Erico Santos of CDG Braseil reports on their experience at the LGBT business fair in Sao Paulo. He says that they made great contacts for support from the business community, particularly for events planned like their GGX bid and the second edition of the their National Diversity Games which will be hosted in Sao Paulo in 2013.

10 August 2012 / CDG Brasil at national LGBT business fair

Out for Sport taster week

Out For Sport Week: Monday 13th to Sun 19th August

Out For Sport and London’s LGBT sports clubs invite you to try a new sport!

18 of London’s LGBT sports clubs have got together to organise a week of ‘Sports Taster Sessions’ for London’s LGBT community to try out new sports. We want to showcase London’s vibrant and inclusive LGBT sports community, and show that we have something to offer everyone, regardless of age or ability.

For information about each sport taster session, please go to:
Out For Sport’s website http://www.outforsport.com/ (check out the menu of events under the ‘Out For Sport Week 2012’ tab under the Out For Sport logo)
Out For Sport’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OutForSport (click on the events link under the Out For Sport Week timeline image)

For some sports, spaces are limited due to venue capacity and health and safety, so participants are asked to register their interest in advance.

It’s not just about taking part in sport though, there is a social element too!

Tuesday 14 August 2012
20:00– Sailing Social – The Phoenix Artist Club, WC2H 8BU

Wednesday 15 August 2012
18:30 – 20:30 – Women’s Football with Hackney Women’s FC, Clissold Park,N4 2EY
Park entrance on Green Lanes near bus stop Kings Cresent Estate (Stop PJ)
18:00 – 20:00 – Men’s/ Mixed Football with Leftfooters FC, Regent’s Park (North East corner, by Gloucester Gate)
20:30– Out For Sport’s Women’s Social - Oak Bar, 79 Green Lanes, London, N16 9BU

Thursday 16 August 2012
18:45 – 21:00 – Women’s Basketball with London Cruisers, Bethnal Green Academy, Gosset Street, London, E2 6NW

Friday 17 August 2012
19:45 – 21:00 – Water Polo – London Orca, Porchester Baths, Queensway, W2 5HS. Please register in advance onwww.outtoswim.org, click on “Water Polo” page, then click on “contact us”. We will respond to confirm your attendance.

Saturday 18 August 2012
09:45 – 11:00 – Running with London’s Frontrunners in Hyde Park. Meet at Sport & Leisure, Imperial College London, St Mary’s Campus, Norfolk Place, London, W2 1PG. Please click on the link to register to run by 10am on the day before the run http://www.londonfrontrunners.org/index.php/contact-us/saturday-access
12:00 – 13:30 – Kickboxing with KB Kickboxing, Piccadilly. Please register in advance: dalia@kbfitness.co.uk.

13:00 – 14:00 Ballroom and Latin (Dancesport), Studio LaDanza
,89 Holloway Road
London
N7 8LT

13:45 – 15:00 –Duplicate Bridge with West London Gay Bridge Group, Victoria Pub, Paddington. Please have a working knowledge of Bridge. This session is to teach duplicate, not bridge.
 To register, please email chris@cdtenor.freeserve.co.ukbefore 12th August

15:30 – 17:30 – Self Defence and Martial Artswith Ishigaki Ju Jitsu Club, Oasis Sports Centre, 32 Endell Street, WC2H 9AG London

15:45 – 18:00 – Squash with OutPlay Squash, Finsbury Leisure Centre, Old Street, Norman Street, London , EC1V 3PU. Please email outplay.ciws@ymail.com giving us your name and the session you would like to attend (4pm or 5pm).

18:30 – 20:00 – Swimming Taster Session – Out To Swim, Queen Mother Sports Centre, 223 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London, SW1V 1EL. Please register by ‘liking’ Out For Sport on facebook, find the ‘Out To Swim – Swimming Taster Session” and click ‘join’.

18:30– Onwards – Out For Sport Night Out – Shadow Lounge, Soho. Everyone welcome!
Sunday 19 August 2012

10:00 – 12:30 – Hockey with London Royals Hockey Club, John Orwell Sports Centre
Tench Street, Wapping, E1W 2QD. To register, click ‘join’ on the London Royals Taster Session in the events section of the Out For Sport facebook page

12:45 – 15:30 – Men’s/Mixed Football with London Titans FC (11 Aside). Old Deer Park, Richmond. Please register your interest by emailing enquiries@londontitans.com

12:00– 16:00 – Alternative Olympics and ‘bring your own’ picnic - Clapham Common Please register your interest by ‘liking’ Out For Sport on facebook, find the ‘London Royals Alternative Olympics’ and click‘join’

13:00 – 16:00 –Volleyball with London Spikers Volleyball Club, Hyde Park (closest tube is Marble Arch)

14.00 – 17:00 – Men’s/Mixed Football with Leftfooters FC, Regent’s Park (North East corner, by Gloucester Gate)

15:00 – 20:00 - Roller Derby with London Roller Girls - Bridge Park Community Leisure Centre - NW10 0RG. Come at 3pm for an information session with Q&A, then watch the teams practice (3 hours), then head off to the Pub!

17:30 – 19:45 –Synchronised Swimming, Out To Swim Angels, Queen Mother Sports Centre, 223 Vauxhall Bridge Road, SW1V 1EL London. Please use the contact form here to send us your name and contact details. http://www.outtoswim.org/index.php?option=com_contact&view=contact&catid=12&id=8

Welcome Philadelphia Falcons

The Philadelphia Falcons Soccer Club, a member of Team Philadelphia and IGLFA, has just joined the Federation of Gay Games as an associate member.

Welcome Falcons!

Welcome Cheer San Francisco!

We are pleased to welcome Cheer SF as a member of the Federation of Gay Games.

San Francisco cheerleaders have been part of every Gay Games. As we expand the cheer program for the Gay Games, after the successful experiment in Cologne, we are delighted to have a cheerleading group join us!

Out for Sport taster week and Night Out

As Out for Sport's "Join In Local Sport" taster week concludes, enjoy the Out for Sport London Night Out

15 September 2012 / Team DC's Night OUT with United pro soccer

News from Team DC:



United Night OUT
Saturday, September 15 at 7 PM vs. the New England Revolution

Pro soccer at RFK Stadium in one of the United's final home games that could have important playoff implications!  The third annual United Night OUT is hosted by the Federal Triangles Soccer Club.  More about them can be found at www.federaltriangles.org.  Stay tuned for pricing and ticket information.

Welcome to the FGG's latest member, NCAFFL "Cleveland Rockers"

The Federation of Gay Games is delighted to announce its latest member, the North Coast Athletics Flag Football League, aka "Cleveland Rockers":


The NORTH COAST ATHLETICS FLAG FOOTBALL LEAGUE (NCAFFL) / CLEVELAND ROCKERS seeks to promote the positive social and athletic enjoyment of American Flag Football. The CLEVELAND ROCKERS are a group of men and women who enjoy American football in all aspects: watching, cheering, and playing. We come together to play to promote the best of camaraderie. Our focus is to provide a positive, social, welcoming environment through the team characteristic inherent to American football while capturing the athletic and competitive nature of flag football.

We play weekend games in the Fall and the Spring and all are welcome to join and play, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, or skill level. The NCAFFL sends a representative team, the CLEVELAND ROCKERS, to various national and regional GLBT/S tournaments including SynergyFest in Cleveland the last weekend of April, the annual Spring Pride Bowl in Chicago during Pride Weekend, and the Gay Bowl hosted by the National Gay Flag Football League (NGFFL) during Columbus Day Weekend.

KZN LGBT Recreation leads Durban church aerobics marathon... and prays for and end to homophobic crime

On 14 July 2012, the Apostles Church in Durban organized an aerobics marathon at the Durban Ice Rink. Among those taking part were members of FGG member organization KZN LGBT Recreation. Petros Duma, deputy chair of KZN LGBT Recreation, works closely with the pastor of the church for the church's sports program. As an experience aerobics instructor, he was in charge of the whole marathon event

Petros took this opportunity to lead the attendees in prayer for an end to the homophobic murders and violence afflicting South Africa. As the motto of KZN LGBT Recreation say: "Education through Sports = Unity".

We take this opportunity to ask you to sing Allout's petition against corrective rape HERE.

14 September 2012 / Team Muenchen Sportfestival and PantereEsports tournaments

Once again tournaments collide, with the weekend of 14-16 September seeing two major tournaments in Munich and Barcelona...

Munich’s gay and lesbians sports club Team Muenchen e.V., invites you to join our Gay and Lesbian Summer Sport Festival 2012. The event will take place on the weekend of September 14-16, 2012.

REGISTER NOW on www.sommersportfestival.de/ssf/ .
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We offer tournaments in badminton, bowling, soccer (7 by 7 and women only!), sport-climbing, sport-shooting, table-tennis, volleyball (men), as well as workshops in aerobic, kickboxing, yoga.

SAVE THE DATE and register now for Sept. 14th to 16th, 2012 - We are looking forward to see you in Munich.

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After the Tennis tournament the weekend of 6-9 September, the weekend of 14-16 September will see the main PanterEsports tournament.

Sports on offer include: Basketball (men/women), Squash, Volleyball (men), Swimming, Soccer (men), Syncronized Swimming, Running.

More info HERE.

Gay Games 9 goes west!

Kevin Brauer (TC), Tom Nobbe (GG9), Tony Smith (TC), Rob Smitherman (GG9), Sonjya Jaquez Lewis (FGG and TC), Dirk Breiding (GG9)

Representatives from Gay Games 9 are in Denver to meet with FGG member Team Colorado and with the board of the International Gay Rodeo Association to finalize plans for rodeo at Gay Games 9.

Welcome to Hot Helsinki!

The FGG is very pleased to welcome a new member, HOT Helsink (hot.fi).

HOT Helsinki was founded in 1997.
The Association seeks to support sexual and gender minorities in training athletes. HOT organizes training opportunities and places where athletes are able to operate openly as themselves.


For the moment, HOT is active in Helsinki and Tampere. The club is still growing, and may expand in future to other cities.


The most popular sports in the club are aerobics, futsal, volleyball, ice hockey and badminton. Other sports include swimming, cycling, roller skating, dancing, skiing, skiing, baseball, bowling, climbing, athletics, yoga, and Shindo. HOT welcomes visiting athletes to join them when in Finland!

HOT's main focus is on recreational sport, but they have also participated in many competitions, including:

EuroGames in Budapest (2012)
EuroGames in Rotterdam (2011)
Gay Games in Cologne (2010)
World Outgames in Copenhagen (2009)
EuroGames in Barcelona (2008)
EuroGames in Antwerp (2007)
World Outgame in Montreal (2006)
Gay Games in Chicago (2006)
EuroGames in Utrecht (2005)
EuroGames in Munich (2004)
EuroGames in Copenhagen (2003)
Gay Games in Sydney (2002)
EuroGames in Hanover (2001)
EuroGames in Zurich (2000)
IGLA championships in Paris (2000) and Toronto (2001)
Gay Games in Amsterdam (1998)

In addition, HOT athletes compete in non-LGBT national and international competitions in volleyball, swimming, hockey, and badminton.

14 September 2012 / Team Muenchen Summer Sports Festival

A message from member organization Team Muenchen:

Munich’s gay and lesbians sports club Team Muenchen e.V., invites you to join our 6th LGBTIQ Summer Sport Festival 2012.

The event will take place on the weekend of September 14-16, 2012

REGISTER NOW on: www.sommersportfestival.de/ssf/

We offer tournaments in

badminton
bowling
soccer (7 by 7 and women only!)
sport-climbing
sport-shooting
table-tennis
volleyball (men)

as well as workshops in

aerobic
kickboxing
yoga


SAVE THE DATE and register now for Sept. 14th to 16th, 2012

We are looking forward to see you in fabulous Munich, Germany.

19 August 2012 / Night OUT at the Mystics women's basketball match

News from Team DC:



Night OUT at the Mystics
Sunday, August 19 at 4 PM vs the Chicago Sky

Women's basketball at the Verizon Center where it will be nice and cool!  Also a great opportunity to bring your kids and let them experience pro basketball up close.  We are working to arrange a great pre and post-game events near the Verizon Center, so stay tuned for that.  You can get your tickets starting tomorrow (Friday) at the link on the Team DC website at www.teamdc.org.  The promo code is nightout.  Groups of 20 or more should contact Brent Minor at brent@teamdc.org.

16 September 2012 / Inaugural Dallas Pride Run

Join Dallas Frontrunners at their inaugural Pride Run

Details can be found HERE.
Date Sunday, Sept 16, 2012
Time 8:30AM
Location Reverchon Park
Distance 5K (USATF Certificated)

Registration Fee:
Early Bird (before Sept 9) $20
Regular (before race day) $25
Race Day $30

GALA Choruses: Have a great festival!

GALA Choruses 2012 Festival opens today in Denver.

The FGG wishes everyone there a great festival, full of music and friendship!

20 July 20121 / Team DC Night OUT at the Kastles tennis match

News from Team DC:


Night OUT at the Kastles
Friday, July 20 at 7 PM vs the Orange County Breakers

Tickets are available NOW online HERE.  There are two prices to choose from:
$13 for reserved Grandstand seats (normally $15)
$28 for reserved Chairback seats (normally $30)

Tennis legend Chris Evert will be on hand before the match to meet and greet fans.  This will be on a first come, first served basis for all attendees.  The Kastles play at the Waterfront Tennis Center at 800 Water Street (easy walk from the Waterfront Metro) and tickets are moving quickly, so don't delay!

Then, join members of the Capital Tennis Association on Sunday, July 22 at 7 PM vs the Kansas City Explorers and featuring Serena Williams!  Tickets for this night start at $77 and you will get reserved Chairback seats up close to see Serena warm up for the Olympics.  As an exclusive part of the CTA Night on July 22, a special Meet and Greet with a Kastles player (other than Serena...sorry!) will be held.

As a special "Doubles" treat, anyone who purchases 4 or more tickets using the Night OUT/CTA link will be entered into a raffle for 2 free seats to the Kastles' finale on July 24. The link for both events is https://sites.google.com/site/kastlesgroup/.  These matches will definitely sell out, so if you want tickets, act now!

Out to Swim in the middle of the Channel!

It's on now! Follow on Facebook HERE.

Out To Swim members will swim from Dover to Calais to raise money for Central London Samaritans 

24 June 2012 | By Joe Morgan in Gay Star News:
 

A gay and lesbian relay team will be swimming the 21 miles of the English Channel for charity this week.
Six members of British club Out To Swim will plunge into the 14 degree waters off the coast of England, swimming one by one for an hour at a time, before reaching Calais in France.

They will be doing this task in the aim of raising money for the Central London Samaritans, a charity that provides confidential emotional support for anyone experiencing feelings of distress or despair, which can lead to suicide.

All experienced swimmers, the six gay men and women have trained for months to be able to withstand the ice cold temperatures and marathon distance.

Keep reading HERE.

7 July 2012 / Team up to fight AIDS with the Washington Nationals

News from Team DC:

Team Up to Fight AIDS with the Washington Nationals
Saturday, July 7

To help recognize the return of the AIDS Memorial Quilt to Washington, Whitman-Walker Health is working with the Quilt organizers to bring panels of the Quilt to Nationals Park when the Nationals take on the Colorado Rockies on Saturday, July 7 at 4:05 PM. You can get your tickets online HERE. Each ticket sold will include a $5 donation to the AIDS Memorial Quilt and Whitman-Walker Health. We urge you to purchase your tickets TODAY to ensure that the Quilt can be displayed!

13 June 2013 / IGLFA Euro Cup 2013 to be hosted in 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.

Euro Cup 2013 is a featured partner event: thanks for your support for Gay Games 9!

euro2013dublin.com
www.dublindevilsfc.com