This Saturday 8th May, Pride Cup and VicHealth are celebrating eight years of the Yarra Valley Pride Cup, a catalyst for LGBTQIA+ inclusion in Australian sport. The Yarra Valley Pride Cup was founded in 2013, after player and future Young Victorian of the Year Jason Ball came out as gay to his team. What began […]
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4 May 2021 /
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New research analysing the effective of Pride Cups in sporting codes has found that it significantly reduces the amount of homophobic language being used, but researchers have also found anti-LGBTI attitudes remain prevalent in community sport. Individuals at nearly half of Australian sporting clubs involved in a new Monash University and VicHealth study still believe […]
Tags: Erik Denison, Homophobia, jason ball, Justen O’Connor, Karen Lambert, Nadia Bevan, Ruth Jeanes, Sandro Demaio, Sport
7 Aug 2020 |
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The Australian Football League have received a mixed response after they refused the nomination of a transgender athlete from playing in the women’s league ahead of this week’s 2018 draft. The AFL revealed on Tuesday that the ACT’s Hannah Mouncey would not be eligible to play in the AFLW 2018 after deliberation. In a statement, […]
Tags: AFL, aflw, Cate McGregor, Catherine McGregor, Football, Footy, Hannah Mouncey, jason ball, Sport
18 Oct 2017 |
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The AFL have officially announced the launch of the league’s very first Pride Game earlier this week to promote LGBTIQ inclusivity and raise awareness of queer issues among fans and players of the great Australian pastime. Though the Sydney Swans played an off season match in support of the LGBTIQ community with Fremantle last year, […]
Tags: AFL, andrew ireland, Footy, inclusivity, jason ball, matt finnis, saints, Sport, st kilda, sydney swans
21 Jul 2016 |
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Jason Ball, The Greens candidate for the seat of Higgins in Victoria, has responded to a homophobic slur appearing on his campaign posters. The mental health advocate, who was the first Aussie Rules player to share that he was gay, posted a message to his Facebook account. “I post this picture not to give the […]
Tags: Bisexual, Election, election2016, fag, gay, Goldstein, graffiti, Higgins, Homophobia, Intersex, jason ball, lesbain, LGBT, LGBTI, LGBTIQ, Liberal, Melbourne, The Greens, Tim Wilson, trans*, transgender, Victoria
17 Jun 2016 |
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Jonathan Pavetto, agricultural economist and member of the LGBT community, has been chosen by the Liberal Party to run for the Queensland seat of Kennedy in the upcoming federal election. Pavetto told the Cairns Post that he expects it to be a tough fight to win Kennedy where Katter has enjoyed much popularity. “The party […]
Tags: ALP, Bob Katter, election 2016, Greens, jason ball, jonathan pavetto, karl katter, kelly o'dwyer, kennedy, Liberal, LNP, Queensland
30 Mar 2016 |
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The AFL have announced the game’s first pride match for next season, reasserting the football codes support for marriage equality in Australia. The Sydney Swans and St Kilda will go head-to-head in a match celebrating diversity in the sport and make a statement against discrimination. The Age reports that the St Kilda Saints have been lobbying […]
Tags: AFL, jason ball, Pride, saints, st kilda, swans, Sydney
30 Oct 2015 |
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