The german Bundesliga club Schalke 04 supported a poster campaign by the Schalker fan club association: 'Out of Schalke - Gays and lesbians are in every stadium'. Moreover they displayed the poster from the video cube during a soccer game and did an interview in the break to promote the campaign. de.farenet.org/news_article.asp?intNewsID=818
UEFA, the Union of European Football Associations, and the governing body of football in Europe, launched a good practice guide called 'Tackling racism in club football'. It includes 2 pages on homophobia and sexism. Together with our partners from FARE Tanja Walther, the EGLSF FARE representative, worked on the inclusion of homophobia to this guide. UEFA obviously wants to keep this at a low profile: The focus is on racism. Other forms of discrimination are only mentioned. Download the guide Unite Against Racism - Tackling racism in club football (FARE and UEFA, 2006).
UEFA launched a good practice guide called 'Tackling racism in club football'. It includes 2 pages on homophobia and sexism. Together with our partners from FARE Tanja Walther, the EGLSF FARE representative, worked on the inclusion of homophobia to this guide. UEFA obviously wants to keep this at a low profile: The focus is on racism. Other forms of discrimination are only mentioned. Go to www.farenet.org to download the guide. www.uefa.com/uefa/keytopics/kind=2/index.html
On Sunday October 24, 2006 a group of about 30 dancers, teachers, judges and competition organisers involved in same-sex dancing from 9 different European countries had an informal meeting in Budapest. The meeting was the third following earlier meetings in Cologne and Montreal. They spoke about the desire to form a network or organisation for European and non-European same-sex dancers. After a long discussion it was decided to found an organisation for European same-sex dancers, with an open mind to include non-European dancers. For a worldwide advocacy for same-sex dancers, there is already an organisation with which the founders of [...]
On Sunday October 24, 2006 a group of about 30 dancers, teachers, judges and competition organisers involved in same-sex dancing had an informal meeting in Budapest. They are from 9 different European countries. The meeting was the third following earlier meetings in Cologne and Montreal. They spoke about the desire to form a network or organisation for European and non-European same-sex dancers. After a long discussion it was decided to found an organisation for European same-sex dancers, with an open mind to include non-European dancers. For a worldwide advocacy for same-sex dancers, there already exists another organisation with which they [...]