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  • Convicts on top again Convicts on top again

    The Sydney Convicts rugby club entered a team into the Eastern Suburbs Touch Rugby competition during preseason to help stay in form and prepare for the Bingham Cup in June. But ... Read more

    Tue March 16th, 2010 - No Comments

  • Swingers on the green Swingers on the green

    The Gay and Lesbian Golf Swingers holds regular social rounds and is always looking for people wanting to join. If you would like to participate one Sunday each month at ... Read more

    Tue March 16th, 2010 - No Comments

  • Staying fit and social Staying fit and social

    I was born in 1946 and grew up in the Riverina. My main ongoing sports were tennis and golf (which I was quite good at). I excelled in running and ... Read more

    Tue March 16th, 2010 - No Comments

  • Bats ready to fly Bats ready to fly

    The Flying Bats’ 2010 soccer season will start in April. The all-girl club has five teams participating in the North West Sydney Women’s Football Association. “What I love most about the ... Read more

    Tue March 16th, 2010 - No Comments

  • Celebrating GLBT sport Celebrating GLBT sport

    Team Sydney has declared the 2010 Mardi Gras Sports Festival and Fair Day Sports Village a success. The Sports Festival featured 18 events highlighting the skills, diversity and team spirit of ... Read more

    Tue March 9th, 2010 - No Comments

  • Gross. Really, really gross Gross. Really, really gross

    I have a problem. I work in the fitness industry. I have fat staff who are to be role models to young people in schools and the community, demonstrating how ... Read more

    Tue March 9th, 2010 - 1 Comment

  • Bowling for charity Bowling for charity

    As part of last month’s Mardi Gras Sports Festival, Unbiased Bowling held its annual Lawn Bowls Barefoot Social Day to raise money for charity. Over 115 people attended the event, including ... Read more

    Tue March 9th, 2010 - No Comments

  • Get your butt into gear Get your butt into gear

    So New Year has come and gone and those resolutions made at midnight seem so far away. You’re back at work and it’s consuming all your energy. The personal trainer ... Read more

    Tue March 9th, 2010 - No Comments

  • Fighting sports homophobia Fighting sports homophobia

    French Canadian anti-prejudice organisation Fondation Émergence last week launched its annual global campaign to fight homophobia in sport. The Speaking About Silence campaign will reach its highpoint on the International ... Read more

    Tue March 2nd, 2010 - No Comments

  • Gay fighters prepare for Cologne Gay fighters prepare for Cologne

    The Gay and Lesbian Martial Arts Club (GLMA) will send a team of six to compete in the Cologne Gay Games this August. GLMA and Same-Sex Salsa founder Penny Gulliver said ... Read more

    Tue March 2nd, 2010 - No Comments

  • Temporary meditiation space found Temporary meditiation space found

    Last month’s torrential rain damaged the roof of Club Swans, so the Sydney Gay Meditation Group is meeting at Meditation Space until the venue is repaired. The group meets every ... Read more

    Tue March 2nd, 2010 - No Comments

  • More sailing this weekend More sailing this weekend

    The Australian Sailing and Cruising Club’s (ASCC) Mardi Gras Regatta attracted an abundance of interstate competitors at the weekend. Sydney’s Scott Davis and his crew won the spinnaker division series and ... Read more

    Tue February 23rd, 2010 - No Comments

  • Freezone spikes the opposition Freezone spikes the opposition

    Fourteen teams took to the courts at the Olympic Park’s Indoor Sports Centre to compete in the Freezone Volleyball Mardi Gras Tournament at the weekend. Team Big W won A Division, ... Read more

    Tue February 23rd, 2010 - No Comments

  • Open training for Stingers Open training for Stingers

    The Sydney Stingers Water Polo Club will hold an open training session at the Ryde Aquatic Centre this Saturday, February 27. Starting at 9.45am, the event will introduce potential members ... Read more

    Tue February 23rd, 2010 - No Comments

  • A smashing success A smashing success

    Last weekend, more than 120 players flocked to Tennis Sydney’s Mardi Gras Championships to celebrate its 21st year. Held over three days at the Illawarra Tennis Centre, the tournament held 145 ... Read more

    Tue February 23rd, 2010 - 2 Comments

  • Gay Games running ahead Gay Games running ahead

    The Winter Olympics is not the only world sporting event this year; just as Vancouver extinguishes its flame, the eighth quadrennial Gay Games, in Cologne, Germany, is poised to set ... Read more

    Tue February 23rd, 2010 - No Comments

  • Hockey players think pink Hockey players think pink

    The Bentstix Hockey Club members had their sticks swinging at the annual Pink Hockey Championships at the weekend. Held at the St George Hockey Centre, three teams battled it out in ... Read more

    Tue February 23rd, 2010 - No Comments

  • Weir dismisses ‘Aussie gentlemen’ Weir dismisses ‘Aussie gentlemen’

    While the Sydney Star Observer awaits official comment from Channel 9, US figure skating champion Johnny Weir has dismissed comments made by Winter Olympic commentators Eddie McGuire and Mick Molloy ... Read more

    Sat February 20th, 2010 - 16 Comments

  • Channel Nine faces claims of homophobia again Channel Nine faces claims of homophobia again

    Channel Nine is facing a flurry of complaints over its coverage of the Winter Olympics, following a series of homophobic comments made by Eddie McGuire and Mick Molloy. Commentating on the ... Read more

    Thu February 18th, 2010 - 34 Comments

  • Mitcham signs up for Cologne Mitcham signs up for Cologne

    If Australia’s Gay Games team needed any inspiration when it heads to Cologne later this year it needs look no further than its own camp. Australia’s most recognisable gay athlete and ... Read more

    Wed February 17th, 2010 - 4 Comments

  • Sydney Stingers get fundraising Sydney Stingers get fundraising

    Sydney’s gay and lesbian water polo club, the Sydney Stingers, is seeking community support to help them send a team to the Cologne Gay Games in August. “The Stingers have been ... Read more

    Tue February 16th, 2010 - No Comments

  • Vancouver gets gay village Vancouver gets gay village

    For the first time at an Olympic Games, the Olympic villages for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics will contain not just one, but two gay and lesbian pavilions. The Vancouver games ... Read more

    Tue February 16th, 2010 - 5 Comments

  • A frock race A frock race

    The Little Black Dress Run will come to Centennial Park this Saturday, February 20, to help raise funds for the Sydney Children’s Hospital’s Camp Good Time for children living with ... Read more

    Tue February 16th, 2010 - No Comments

  • Cruising the harbour Cruising the harbour

    The Australian Sailing and Cruising Club (ASCC) will hold its annual Mardi Gras Regatta this Saturday, February 20. The club hires six-metre long Elliott dinghies and holds a series of short ... Read more

    Tue February 16th, 2010 - No Comments

  • A bent hockey day A bent hockey day

    The Bentstix Hockey Club will hold its annual Pink Hockey Championships on Saturday, February 20, at the St George Hockey Centre, Kyeemagh. Now in its fifth year, the social day starts ... Read more

    Tue February 16th, 2010 - No Comments

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