Get Out Glasgow September News
29th September 2025
The Get Out Glasgow group provides free introductions to sport and physical activity for LGBTIQ+ people in Greater Glasgow.
Over the past month Get Out Glasgow participants have enjoyed a bowls taster session at Hampden Bowling Club.
Our LGBTIQ+ women’s cycle touring participants have also cycled to Cathkin Braes and around the Isle of Arran. Check out their stories below.
Coming Up!
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We’re partnering with Bellahouston Fencing Club for a taster session on Tuesday 14th October from 6-8pm followed by a 4 week course beginning the following week. Register here.
Take Me Somewhere - Still Lives
Take Me Somewhere is an international radical performance festival that has been running in Glasgow since 2018. On Saturday the 25th of October from 1.30-4pm, Get Out Glasgow will attend the performance of the travelling show Still Lives.
Still Lives is a performance-installation series that has worked with queer sportspeople in cities across Australia, Italy and Belgium. For Glasgow, Still Lives enters the charged world of professional wrestling, a scene with deep local roots and fiercely loyal fans. The artists will lean into the city’s appetite for drama and physical theatre, exploring energy and inertia, movement and pause, kayfabe and the suspension (quite literally) of disbelief.
We have a small number of free tickets on offer which will be given out on a first-come-first-served basis. You are also welcome to join us by buying your own ticket (£15 | £10 Concession). If you’d like to join us, please apply here by 9am on Monday 20th October.
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Join us for a walk and museum visit at Kelvingrove Park, Art Gallery and Museum on Sunday 2nd November from 2-5pm. Register here.
Your stories
Connecting with the LGBTIQ+ Community through Sport
We’ve got some gorgeous stories from club members and Get Out Glasgow and Wheels in Motion participants:
A participant in our recent cricket programme shares how since joining Get Out Glasgow last year, they’ve become much more involved in the LGBTIQ+ sporting community:
‘Previous to my connection with Get Out Glasgow/LEAP Sports, I didn’t really connect with the wider LGBT community. Engaging with Get Out Glasgow has opened loads of doors for me. I’ve never been as actively involved in the LGBT community as I am now. It has helped build my confidence to explore other areas of the LGBT community.’
A New Experience of Cycling
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Xuqing attended our cycle touring course and bike maintenance sessions which were part of the
Wheels in Motion LGBTIQ+ Women’s Cycling project:
‘I have never tried the camp, or the cycle tour. This kind of slower pace, more chill, this way of cycling. For the road cycling we are more passionate about the power training, how fit we are, how fast we can go. For the tour it’s a social event, cycling in a larger group, there’s more chance for communication, for discussion.’
Read their blog here.
Touch Rugby and Squash
Maja is part of Glasgow Lions, a touch rugby club. Over the past two years she’s attended curling, bowling and squash with Get Out Glasgow. Here’s some of her comments on the squash course:
‘I thought the coaches were very good. I enjoyed having really good players teach you. It was helpful because there’s so many things you can ask, they can show you, teach you. I learnt how to hold the racket, some rules of where to hit it. I did really enjoy it, I would love to go back.’
Check out her story here.
If you’d be interested in being interviewed for a case study or writing a blog to share your experience of accessing LGBTIQ+ inclusive sport and physical activity check out our top tips and contact robin@leapsports.org with your ideas.
