Latest Fundraising Campaign: The Changing Room
This breathtaking collection of forty-seven frank and often funny poems by long-time Warwick Rowers photographer Angus Malcolm will make you laugh and may make you cry. Drawing on personal experiences from sixteen years of our original fundraising calendar project, these poems ultimately offer to a very personal insight into why we believe sport and masculinity can play a healthier role in everyone’s future. Find out more
Watch three amazing films we created in conjunction with Sky Sports and London Film School.
Our Impact:
Supporting Better Delivery
Creating practical tools and resources to support people who are delivering sports-related training or education to young people.
Empowering Young People
Bringing simple but vital and effective messaging to a global audience
Homophobia and Inequality in Sports:
The Stats
Approximately 6% of the UK population is gay and yet
homophobia in sport remains a serious issue in the UK
2004 Treasury Report of the Civil Partnerships Act.
70% of British gay males under the age of 22 who play team sport are either completely or partially closeted from their teammates. Reasons for this included a fear of bullying, a fear of being rejected by teammates and a concern about discrimination from officials.
Out on the Fields survey 2015
73% of youth in one study do not believe that youth sports are a ‘supportive and safe’ place for lesbian, gay and bisexual participants.
Out on the Fields survey 2015
More than 55% of young LGBT+ people had been directly bullied in school.
stonewall report
Report
Strategy for change.
Sport Allies is a registered charity with a mission to promote sport - especially team sport - as an inclusive and supportive route to personal growth for everyone. We also want to see sport play a more prominent role in promoting inclusion generally, with a specific focus on gender and non-heteronormative sexualities.
Our vision is a world where sport leads the way in promoting diversity, and you can read more about how we are achieving this vision through our Strategy for Change Report.
“One of the essential conditions for the effective exercise of human rights is that everyone should be free to develop and preserve his or her physical, intellectual, and moral powers and that access to physical education and sport should consequently be assured and guaranteed for all human beings ”
— UNESCO International Charter of Physical Education and Sport
Homophobia is not just an LGBT issue.
We have come to understand that homophobia is more about gender identity than sexuality, and affects all of us.
Our culture has set ideas about what masculinity is, and who is allowed to have it. The more we look, the more evidence we find to show that ‘difference’ in relation to masculinity is at the root of homophobia.
Homophobia, gender equality and healthier masculinity are all related. They are issues that affect people of all genders and sexualities, and we must all work together to create a healthier environment where everyone can thrive.
