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BLAGSS celebrates 21 year anniversary in 2018

This year BLAGSS celebrate its 21 year anniversary with a number of events throughout the year, starting with the annual Ten Pin Bowling Extravaganza on Wednesday, February 28.

BLAGSS (Brighton Lesbian and Gay Sports Society) have been providing sporting and social opportunities in Brighton & Hove for the past 21 years.

As winter turns to spring and new year’s resolutions are broken our thoughts turn to trying to get fit, losing a kilo or two and starting something new. With over 400 members and up to fifteen different sports happening every week, there are plenty of opportunities to pick up a sport you used to play, try a new sport, make new friends and most importantly get fit.

Sports on offer include: badminton, tennis, petanque, running, table tennis, golf, football, squash and walking, with netball and croquet to be added in the spring.

With many members new to Brighton and Hove, BLAGSS is an ideal organisation within which you can make new friends.

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B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival: Work & Volunteer Fair

As part of The B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival in February, the Rainbow Fund supports the LGBT Work & Volunteer Fair.

The fair, part of LGBT History Month, will take place in the Phil Starr Pavilion in Victoria Gardens on Thursday, February 22, from 10am-4pm.

Are you looking for work? Do you want to volunteer or get involved in your local LGBT+ communities?

There will be over twenty local community organisations, businesses and recruiting companies attending who will be offering job search, benefit guidance, engagement workshops, drop in support, CV support and help in overcoming the hurdles to employment.

Volunteer Fair in Phil Starr Pavilion at 2017 B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival
Volunteer Fair in Phil Starr Pavilion at 2017 B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival

To book a stall for your organisation, email: events@brightonlgbtfestival.com

The B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival celebrates LGBT History Month, is organised by the volunteers of the Brighton & Hove LGBT Community Safety Forum and takes place at the Phil Starr Pavilion – a multi functional, fully accessible, heated performance, conference and community space with a licensed bar which is located on Victoria Gardens, Brighton, BN1 1WN

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How can we include transgender and intersex athletes?

Inclusion of transgender and intersex people in athletics to be discussed at a free event at the University of Brighton.

Professor Yannis Pitsiladis
Professor Yannis Pitsiladis

Joanna Harper, a medical physicist and transgender athlete from the USA, and Professor Yannis Pitsiladis, the University’s Professor of Sport and Exercise Science, will discuss claims of unfairness levelled at transgender competitors who are considered to have an advantage over those born female.

Ms Harper, based at Providence Portland Medical Centre in Oregon, and Professor Pitsiladis, who researches the detection of drugs in sport, will present a roadmap to guide the implementation of rules for the inclusion for transgender and intersex athletes.

Joanna Harper
Joanna Harper

Both argue: “In the attempt to separate athletes into male and female categories, one should only look at those sex and/or gender based qualities that are important for athletic performance.”

They propose that evidence-based scientific research should be the foundation for making decisions on participation in sex-segregated sports and suggest that the concept of an athletic gender should be established in order to facilitate this segregation.

Professor Pitsiladis said the discussion addresses an increasingly important subject: “Sporting bodies remain entangled in debate over how to include transgender and intersex athletes with high levels of bio-available testosterone in competition with cisgender athletes. The recent ruling by the highest court in Germany in favour of the introduction of a third gender category for individuals who do not identify as either male or female or are born with an ambiguous sexual anatomy has brought this important matter to a fore.

“At this event, Joanna and I hope to present a roadmap towards a fair, objective and scientifically meaningful integration of transgender and intersex athletes into elite sport and in a manner that is consistent with the Olympic Charter.”


Event: Beyond Fairness

Where: Sallis Benney Theatre, 58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton BN2 0JY

When: Tuesday, March 20

Time: 6.30pm

Cost: Free entry

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