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GLRF membership crosses 600 count threshold

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An English junior rower’s registration pushed the GLRF membership over the 600 mark today. The UK GLRF membership continues to grow with over 50 members now registered from England.
 
The lucky rower was surprised and pleased to hear that he had won a free shirt and looked forward to tricking it out for wear at his boathouse.
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GLRF launched its 2007 regatta booth promotion season by hosting a booth at the 2007 San Diego Crew Classic. The event draws upwards of 3500 competitors and draws a spectator crowd of 15,000. This year, GLRF will host its largest booth ever, as it showcases rowing information, GLRF gear, promotes regattas, and sells subscriptions to Rowing News.
 
The 2007 season looks to be very successful with booths planned for 8 regattas on two continents.
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GLRF Executive Director Brian Todd traveled to Barcelona on 27 Feb to preview the rowing facilities and options available to rowers and for a regatta planned for the Eurogames 2008. The trip coincided with the upcoming annual general assembly of the European Gay and Lesbian Sports Federation (EGLSF) scheduled to convene 02 - 04 Mar in Madrid. EGSLF sponsors the Eurogames events and is comprised of individual and regional multi-sport organizations.
 
GLRF toured Barcelona, took both the bus and train to the proposed rowing facility in Castelldelfels, and met with the sports director of the Eurogames 2008 organizing committee as well as the director of the rowing basin. We visited the boathouse at the basin as well as the Royal Maritime Yacht Club in the old harbor of Barcelona where we were able to speak at length with the rowing division director. A report on the rowing facilities and options will be presented to the GLRF European rowing community later in the year.
 
GLRF then traveled to Madrid to attend the annual meeting of EGLSF. Our presence at the EGLSF annual general assembly helps to highlight the community connectivity effect that GLRF can bring to rowers who row in their own clubs but desire to belong to a gay and lesbian city multi-sports team. GLRF can provide the local connected community without creating a need to form a separate club. During the weekend, we met with some of executive committee members of Panteres Grogues, the sponsor sports club for Eurogames 2008 , as well as members of the organizing committee of Eurogames 2008, and briefed them on our findings and observations.
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A new gay-themed rowing play by Anton Dudley, Honor and The River, has opened to rave reviews in New Jersey. The play focuses on a teenage boy’s isolation at a boarding school, the sadness for his deceased father, and his longing for one of the guys on the crew team, Honor. The play runs 03 Feb - 25 Feb 2007, at the Luna Stage in Montclair. Read the review.
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GLRF opts out of Federation of Gay Games

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After four years of service as an organizational director of the Federation of Gay Games (FGG), the GLRF Board of Directors voted to resign it’s organizational membership affiliation with the FGG. The Board felt that GLRF resources and time could be better spent on the promotion of rowing in the gay and lesbian community, and the focused support for gay-friendly and gay-sponsored regattas. Read the letter:GLRForgDepart_FGG.pdf
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On the occasion of the 15th Asian Games, a rower from Doha registered with GLRF, expanding the worldwide community presence to 23 countries. The registration also marked the first membership in the GLRF African (Afrique) continental area. There are now six continental areas represented within GLRF: North America, South America, Europe, Oceania, Asia, and Africa.
 
Rowing has a long tradition in the North African region. World Rowing recently reported the resurgence of rowing in Iraq. A review of the Qatar Rowing and Sailing Federation website indicates a strong commitment to develop rowing in the area and announced the arrival of new boats earlier this year.
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Yahoo group ‘glrowers’ vanishes

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GLRF member @crewhead01 of the Pittsburgh Crewheads, and creator of the first online gay rowers list-serve, reported that Yahoo had deleted his email as well as the Yahoo group, ‘glrowers.’ He indicated that the action came as a complete surprise and he was not give any explanation or advance notice.
 
Lewis was responsible for establishing the first online list-serve for gay and lesbian rowers in 1996. It was the main resource for many rowers hoping to row in Amsterdam at the Gay Games in 1998.
 
In 2001, Lewis converted the list-serve to the Yahoo groups format to more simply administer the growing list of rowers. After the launch of GLRF in 2003, the glrowers Yahoo group acted as an adjunct to GLRF, providing an additional discussion area for website visitors to quickly read and post rowing information.
 
Yahoo gave no explanation for its actions. There is speculation that an individual or an organization had filed a complaint. That usually is all it takes to get a group removed.
 
GLRF is currently working on some new features that will provide the same functionality of the glrowers Yahoo group, including multiple levels of notification for posts to the various Global Rower country pages.
 
A huge thank you to Lewis for his many years of support to the gay and lesbian rowing community!
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Switzerland joins the GLRF worldwide community

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The Swiss have arrived! A rower from Zurich registered with GLRF, and immediately asked if he was the only one. Several rowers from Switzerland competed at the Montreal Outgames and there was interest in including rowing at the EuroGames 2000 in Zurich. So we have to believe that there are many gay and lesbian rowers hitting the water everyday in various parts of Schweiz, or is it Suisse, or is it Svizzera? This new addition to the GLRF worldwide community helps to solidify the membership base in Western Europe, with eight countries now represented.
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Hungarian rower registers with GLRF

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Whether or not the GLRF visit to Budapest in March had any effect, we won’t really know but the end result is the same - Hungarian rowers joined GLRF! Hailing from the Csepel Rowing Club in Budapest, this new rower says there are lots of gay rowers and they are best, since they always win the state championships. Excellent, let’s hope he can encourage these others to join GLRF!
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GLRF thanks community of Crystal Lake

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The 2006 Chicago Gay Games was not without controversy, what with dual gay multi-sport events being hosted just one month apart in Chicago and Montreal, in July and August (Chicago Gay Games and Montreal Outgames).
 
However, rowing became the greatest source of controversy when the Chicago Gay Games organizers acted on the recommendation of GLRF to host the rowing event at Crystal Lake. The decision created a firestorm of controversy leading up to the regatta, with local Christian conservatives loudly protesting the decision at public city meetings. The resulting media story went nationwide as the Chicago sports organizers repeatedly attempted to reassure local residents that the City of Crystal Lake would not turn into some naked scene of debauchery and that children swimming in the lake would not be "infected" or "turned."
 
On the day of the event, additional police were on hand to separate local protesters as athletes, spectators, and volunteers arrived to participate.
 
GLRF published an open letter to the community following the regatta, thanking residents, the Crystal Lake Rowing Club, and all the public agencies who worked to support the event. Read it here: GLRF_thks_Crystal_Lake.pdf

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