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Learning to skate and play roller derby

26th February 2025 by Jacqualyn (Glasgow Roller Derby)

Get Out Glasgow is a project that utilises physical activity to improve mental wellbeing for the LGBTIQ+ adults in Greater Glasgow. In September 2024 we ran a learn to skate session with Glasgow Roller Derby (GRD). Following this, participants could sign-up to GRD’s 16 week new skater intake where they’d learn the fundamentals of roller derby, supported by Get Out Glasgow.

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En garde, ready, bi!

En garde, ready, bi!

25th February 2025 by Lindsay (she/her) (Elgin Duellist Fencing Club)

When you’re a twin, you quite often get asked questions. Which one of you is older? Are you identical? Do you dress the same? Do you do the same things as each other?

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Running 4 Change: A Journey from Despair to Purpose

Running 4 Change: A Journey from Despair to Purpose

18th February 2025 by Brad Whittingham (Running 4 Change)

Please note that this blog contains descriptions of attempted suicide and describes experiences of addiction & recovery, psychosis, and living with HIV/AIDS.

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Queers on Quads

Queers on Quads

6th February 2025 by Dundee Roller Derby

Roller Derby is a grassroots full-contact sport founded on a fundamentally inclusive gender policy. Under the Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby Association’s (WFTA) gender statement, any self-identifying female may play, including cisgender, transgender, gender-expansive and non-binary individuals.

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Blurring Borders: Interview with queer sport artivist, Z.Blace from Croatia

Blurring Borders: Interview with queer sport artivist, Z.Blace from Croatia

21st February 2022 by Z.Blace (qSPORT Zagreb )

"It was about the feminist, queer, leftist idea of solidarity, where we would also welcome straight people and those who were not enthusiastic about or even traumatized by sport systems"

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Blurring Borders: The wider health benefits of exercising with an LGBTQIA+ peer group

Blurring Borders: The wider health benefits of exercising with an LGBTQIA+ peer group

8th February 2022 by Dr David Hunter

"Being part of the club also impacted positively on participants' mental and social wellbeing".

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Blurring Borders: Interview with Slovenian LGBTIQ+ sport activist Andrej Pisl

Blurring Borders: Interview with Slovenian LGBTIQ+ sport activist Andrej Pisl

4th February 2022 by Andrej Pisl (Out in Slovenia)

"Grassroots initiatives are where it all started and where the biggest challenges are addressed"

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The Serpent's Egg

The Serpent's Egg

17th February 2018 by Thiago Bogossian

The Serpent's Egg: LGBTI and Gender Debate Under Attack in Brazil

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