EuroGames Stockholm 2015

EuroGames 2015, Stockholm – EuroGames Stockholm is a sports, cultural and political event which will take place between 5th to 9th of August 2015. The event encourage participation from everyone — regardless of sexual orientation, race, gender, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, political beliefs, athletic or artistic ability, age, physical challenge or health status. The goal is to offer a safe environment for LGBTQ competitors and participants. With an aim to attract over 5.000 participants and more than 200.000 visitors EuroGames Stockholm invites people not only from Sweden but from all over the world. Stockholm, Sweden.

EuroGames Stockholm 2015

EuroGames 2015 allows Stockholm, known worldwide as an open and welcoming destination, an opportunity to state as an example and act as an international role model for LGBTQ rights. There are still severe problems for LGBTQ people around the world in politics, culture and sport where EuroGames fulfil its mission as an open for all event. Nationally we also have the possibility to highlight the existing problems for transgender participation as well as inform and prevent the fact that many young LGBTQ people quit or never even begin with organised sport.

Jakob Jansson, President of EuroGames Stockholm

EuroGames was founded in 1992 by EGLSF with the propose to:

1.Offer a high-quality sport event to the LGBTQ community

2.Fight against discrimination on grounds of sexual preference in sports

3.Stimulate integration emancipation of lesbians and gays in sports

4.Support the coming out of gay and lesbian in sports

5.Support the founding of new gay, lesbian, straight and mixed groups

The European Gay and Lesbian Sport Federation (EGLSF) is a sporting body for homosexuals in Europe. The Federation was founded in 1989 by two LGBTQ sport clubs from Germany and The Netherlands inspired by the first Gay Games in San Francisco, United States. Its headquarters are in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Today, EGLSF has more than a hundred LGBT sport clubs from all over Europe as members, representing more than 10.000 European athletes. Since 1992, the EGLSF celebrates a huge European gay sport event once a year: the EuroGames, the European Gay & Lesbian Championships.

EGLSF continuously appoints a hosting city for EuroGames, which is one of the largest LGBTQ events in the world. In this occasion Stockholm was selected as a host city to celebrate EuroGames 2015. Previous host cities have been Barcelona, Paris, Berlin and Antwerp.

Currently the event contains a series of pragrammes with in sport, culture and politics and it is open to everyone who wants to participate, regardless of sexual orientation, race, gender, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, political beliefs, athletic or artistic ability, age, physical challenge or health status.

For more information about the EGLSF visit:

www.eglsf.info

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