The GLRF Stream

The 2025 Rainbow Logo Challenge is an opportunity for rowing clubs, programmes, organizations, and business to signal their support for the LGBTQ rowing community by incorporating rainbow colors in their social media and website logos. The challenge is held in conjunction with a given country’s recognized Pride month. This is a time when the LGBTQ+ community celebrates their diversity and affirms their pride in who they are. The presence of rainbow logos in social media has a profound impact within the rowing community. Every social view of a rainbow logo, be it on Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter, and Threads, sends a message to the broader community that an organization values and supports the LGBTQ+ community. Even more importantly, when an individual sees a rainbow logo, he/she/they instantly feel a sense of reassurance and welcome in that place of business or organization. Challenge participation involves modifying an organization’s website and social media logos to include rainbow colors and featuring those logos for the entire month. We are excited to unveil the new Rainbow Logo Challenge page where both members and guests can submit their challenge entries. An entry involves an organization name; the country and it’s recognized pride month. In recognition of the global rowing community, we encourage entries to feature the local language spelling of the pride month. Every entry must feature at least one website or social media site with a rainbow logo. To showcase the presence of the rainbow logos, we kindly ask you to only add those sites that feature the rainbow-infused logo. All entries will be featured on the Rainbow Logo Challenge page. Although the Challenge extends throughout a country’s Pride month, the displayed entries serve as a year-long testament to the LGBTQ+ rowing community that they are welcome and accepted. An organization’s participation also makes a statement that inclusion and acceptance are important core values. The Gay + Lesbian Rowing Federation challenges rowing national governing bodies, rowing clubs and programmes, and rowing related businesses to step up. This isn’t about politics. It is about putting rowers, coxies, coaches, and race/regatta officials first, individuals who participate in the rowing community every day.

GLRF OnTheWater members can use the search bar in the header to search for a regatta name. All GLRF members can use the 'Filter By' button to search by tags and by country. The tag list is extensive and includes tags like stonewall, eurogames, gaygames, outgames, The 'Filter By' button allows a user to search by one or more countries as well as tags to develop a curated listings list.

Currently, Seat Search entries will be retained to show the functionality. In the future, Seat Search entries may be removed following the end of the listing date. Truthfully, an expired Seat Search entry has no function.

If a listing has various content added to the listing, it will be retained. Examples could be images or files, members going, and comments. A listing that has been added but has no content for up to three months after the ending date of the listing will be removed.

Any GLRF member can add a listing. Theoretically, a GLRF Poland member could add the Head of Yarra, an Australian head race held every November. Because the listing is designed to be collaborative, other GLRF members can make edits to any listings in case there the information needs to be updated or clarified. Visitors can peruse any Regattas+ listing but only GLRF members can add a listing, add comments, follow the listing, indicate if they are going, add images, and add a Seat Search.

Regattas+ combines what was previously just a calendar event or a group in the GLRF groups section into a LGBTQ community hub that wraps around any regatta, ergatta, or camp/clinic. A Regattas+ listing creates a virtual meet up for GLRF members participating and/or attending the competition.