Equality in sports

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Updates

Hi and thanks for following our blog! We're happy to say that through our Facebook page "Equality in Sports" we have reached more than 68 000 people and we have had on our Youtube channel more than 1 000 views on our movie "The Runner"! Thanks a lot for helping out reaching those numbers! Hopefully we have challenged peoples mind, making them stand out from the crowd next time they experience homophobia (in sport).
24 people follow us on Twitter, and you should too if you don't follow us all ready - see twitter.com/equalityinsport.

As we're constantly trying to improve our marketing, we would really appreciate your feedback on how you think we could make it even more clear what our mission is, challenge homophobia in sport!

And keep checking back, soon we will post some great blog-badges for your to download free of charge!

Till then, keep safe and strong!

Monday, July 2, 2012

Background for the movie

Some of you may wonder why this short movie was created, and by whom. Both questions are easy and hard to answer at the same time, for different reasons.

Why it was made, because it is needed. The society need to be challenged when it comes to homophobia and discrimination based on gender and sexual orientation. "Research confirms 48% of the EU´s population (Eurobarometer 263 “Discrimination in the European Union”) believes that homosexuality is still a taboo and as stated in the Norwegian NOC´s Sport Policy Document 2007-2011 homophobia is an extremely difficult topic to tackle: “lesbians, gays and bisexuals are – differing from many other minorities – an invisible group. And that is therefore an extra challenge to contribute to dissemination of knowledge and information in order for this group to be fully accepted within sports.”" (copied from ENGSO Youth). These facts confirms that the topic needs to be addressed.

Whom it was made by; easy answer, young European citizens from different countries, engaged in youthwork and sport. The hard answer is not hard because it's difficult to answer, but because some of those people might meet big difficulties for supporting the cause of challenging homophobia in sports, in their own countries. Therefore we cannot give their full names out, but we would very much like to thank them for the great job they did, shooting, editing and promoting the video and the campaign.