Gay and Lbian Rowg Feratn | Pri Sports

Contents:

• GAY ATHLETE FOUND HIS NICHE AND HIS HBAND THROUGH ROWG
• UNRSTANDG THE TYP OF GAY ROWG CLUBS
• GAY AND LBIAN ROWG FERATN
• A GAY ROWER’S VIRAL POST ABOUT HOMOPHOBIA SHOWS POWER OF G OUT
• GAY CHIGO

GAY ATHLETE FOUND HIS NICHE AND HIS HBAND THROUGH ROWG

The team began 1991 wh eight gay nners lookg for a cross-trag activy, some old rented equipment, and a lot of enthiasm. The Gay + Lbian Rowg Feratn is a worldwi onle, clive muny for lgbtq+ outdoor and door rowers, xi, ach, and race officials.

Calendar featur 14 members of Warwick Universy Rowg Society all aged between 18 and 21The black and whe imag - the group's fifth chary lendar - feature the buff boys olickg by the River Avon Team are hopg to repeat 2012 succs which saw lendar sell out days wh orrs g om 40 untriFunds om the lendar and other products will go towards Edutnal Actn Challengg Homophobia (EACH)Behd-the-scen vio ptur the energy and mararie of the sportg group Updated: 18:16 BST, 30 October 2013 Advertisement A male universy rowg club is raisg sh for an anti-homophobia chary - by posg naked a mp tongue--cheek buff stunts om Warwick Universy Rowg Society dched their life jackets to strip nu for the artistic photo shoot. ' AUGUST: Calendar aniser Lrie Hulse said: 'Gettg naked wasn't a problem really, we're all good iends, ' The team are hopg to repeat on last year’s naked lendar which saw sold out days wh orrs g om over 40 hunky rowers have already built up an imprsive celebry fan base cludg Stephen Fry, John Barrowman, Boy Gee, Gok Wan and Derren this year the mcular athlet have cid to e their lendar to raise money for a chary which challeng homophobic bullyg om the lendar and other products will go towards Edutnal Actn Challengg Homophobia (EACH) registered chary is workg wh the rowers to velop a programme lled Sport Alli that will see them gog to schools and makg viral aim to help enurage young people who are beg bullied about their sexual inty to ll a natnal helple and speak out about the abe they suffer.

OCTOBER (l) and NOVEMBER (r): This year the mcle-bound athlet have cid to e their lendar to raise money for a chary which challeng homophobic bullyg schools Rower Lrie add: 'Supporters wrote to explag their experienc of homophobia and why the stance we were takg meant so much. 'The Warwick Rowers e tongue--cheek vios and photographs to challenge this, and dog so I thk they are takg nstctive and posive stand agast homophobia. 'Former Warwick rower, two-time Olympian and World medallist Tom Solbury, also appld the team for tacklg bullyg and homophobia said: 'I rowed for Warwick, and am lighted to see my old club dog such great work for chary and for young people.

UNRSTANDG THE TYP OF GAY ROWG CLUBS

I have a much different life than what I thought was possible for growg up whout any gay fluenc or role mols. And sce I didn’t have a lot of iends growg up, I assumed that much of what was available did not apply to me bee I am gay. To this day I am still cur why was important to announce to strangers I was gay when walkg to a classroom, a locker room or a dg room.

Whout knowg a sgle thg about beg gay and never havg met an openly gay man, I feared beg gay om as long as I n remember. My experienc told me that was bad to be gay. By the time I graduated llege, HIV transmissn had h s height wh the gay muny.

Still, I had never met an openly gay man or talked to anyone about HIV or AIDS. If I was gay, then the thought of sex translated to a ath sentence. And if I was gay, I knew I uld blend and hi my achievements.

GAY AND LBIAN ROWG FERATN

We all took re of each other, looked out for one other, and supported each other ways I thought were not for me bee I was gay. And was then when I first sheepishly showed up at gay night club on a random Saturday night and danced all night the middle of the dance floor wh my ey closed.

As a new gay man, I uld not draw om the same experienc nor make the same jok and still protect my inty. Gay and Lbian rowers are volved the entire spectm of clubs and boatho.

” In Boston and Berl, gay and lbian rowers have formed what n bt be scribed as regnal groups, that provi an umbrella anizatn for all rowers that belong to var clubs the metropolan area.

A GAY ROWER’S VIRAL POST ABOUT HOMOPHOBIA SHOWS POWER OF G OUT

Why do gays and lbians need a gay club? Rowgntact the clubA group to nnect gay and lbian rowers the London area.

What started as Outriggers, an rmal club formed to create a team for the 1998 Amsterdam Gay Gam transned to Orn Rowg Club. Simon Haerck, a gay rower Belgium, saw his post about homophobia sports go viral and spired him to do more. Simon Haerck, left, lnched a mpaign wh his straight rowg teammat to ll attentn to homophobia sports.

GAY CHIGO

That is why I started a social media mpaign — #samportdifferentsexualy — to ll out homophobia sports and enurage tolerance and acceptance.

I me out as gay when I was 23, after five years of hidg . Send me a msage that he has always been aaid of his ach, who he thought was homophobic.

Inspired by our talk, he told his ach the next day that he was gay. The attentn got proved to me that a lot of people agree that homophobia sports is still a big issue. Then turns out that the much-anticipated Berl girls' team has been replaced by a team [queerSchlag] of athletic, clich�-burstg young gay men.