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User:Yupik/Queer Sport Split

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Queer Sport Split
Društvo za promicanje queer kulture kroz sport i rekreaciju
AbbreviationQSS
Formation2011[1]
TypeNon-profit organization
Registration no.17004244[1]
PurposeCharitable
HeadquartersSplit[1]
WebsiteQSS.hr

Queer Sport Split or QSS is a Croatian non-governmental, non-profit organization that organizes sport recreation, cultural, and leisure activities for the LGBTIQ+ community in Split and the surrounding Dalmatian region. QSS is the first openly and publicly registered LGBTIQ+ organization in Split and Dalmatia.[2][3][4]

History edit

Queer Sport Split started as an informal initiative in 2006. Since 2008, it has formally organized regular activities. It was the first such initiative and one of only two organizations in Croatia to do so, the other being qSPORT in Zagreb. It was setup with the intention of empowering and strengthening the LGBTIQ+ community by promoting sports and recreational activities in Croatia's second largest city of Split and the region surrounding it.[2]

QSS was officially registered as an organization in 2011[1], just before the first Split Pride, which was attacked by approximately 10,000 anti-gay protesters bombarding the participants with rocks, bricks, and bottles, injuring dozens.[5][6] Due to this violence and fears of being a target of homophobic and trans-phobic attacks, the initiative and organization was not public in its early years.[7][8]

In recent years it has been involved in and even leading research projects both locally and internationally.

Local activities and relevance edit

 
Beyond Binaries team members at Pride event in Edinburgh in 2019

QSS is organizing: excursions and hiking, bocce, swimming and socializing in programs like 'Sport i pivo', 'PlesnjaQ' and 'Domaćinstvo', as well as counseling, screenings and presentations - with the goal of informing and inspiring, both recreation and socializing of LGBTIQ+ community. QSS helps in organizing Split Pride, takes part in platform of LGBT Center Split.[8][9][10]

In the last few years, it has been prominent in organizing activities in popularizing ballroom culture and vogue dance in cooperation with CLUBTURE. [11] [12] [13]

International activities and networks edit

It is internationally active since 2012 as co-organiser of international conference 'Contesting/Contexting SPORT 2012', together with EPAS (sport body of Council of Europe), EGLSF (European Gay and Lesbian Federation) and qSPORT - Zagreb.

In 2018, it was leading an European Erasmus+ research project 'Beyond Binaries' with four other LGBTIQ+ sport and recreation organizations, in collaboration with institutions, networks and initiatives active in the field of research and sport organizing:

'The project aims to create understanding for the highly limiting societal effects that the gender segregation unfolds, especially for and by examining the experiences of members of the LGBTQI+ community.'[14]

As of 2019, it is part of the 'Rainbow Youth for Sporting Equity' research and education project led by LEAP Sports Scotland and European University Sport Assotiation[15] and 'CEEyouSPORT' led by the European Gay and Lesbian Federation.[16]

 
Beyond Binaries field work with synchro team Subversive Sirens[17]at GayGames in Paris, 2018

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d "Queer Sport Split". poslovna.hr. Retrieved February 18, 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Naša istina o našem homofobnom gradu: Ovaj grad se neće vratiti u tišinu dok ne izborimo svoja prava" (in Croatian). Jutarnji list. June 10, 2012. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
  3. ^ Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Working Group (January 2015). "Croatia: Country report for use in Canadian refugee claims based on persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity" (PDF). The International Human Rights Program at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law. Retrieved February 18, 2021.
  4. ^ Zagreb Pride (2018). "Documentation Report on the Republic of Croatia 07/2018" (PDF). Monitoring Implementation of the Council of Europe Recommendation to the Member States on Measures to Combat Discrimination on Grounds of Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity CM/REC(2010)5. TGEU. Retrieved February 18, 2021.
  5. ^ "Kroatian Pride-paraati kärjistyi kivien heittelyksi". Iltalehti (in Finnish). June 12, 2011. Retrieved February 18, 2021.
  6. ^ Bowen, Andrew (June 18, 2011). "Croatian capital hosts peaceful gay pride parade after earlier violence". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved February 18, 2021.
  7. ^ Amnesty International (June 2012). "Inadequate Protection: Homophobic and Transphobic Hate Crimes in Croatia" (PDF). ILGA Europe. Retrieved February 18, 2021.
  8. ^ a b "Slobodna Dalmacija - LGBT centar Split: Gašenjem udruge Rišpet nije dovedeno u pitanje organiziranje gay parade". slobodnadalmacija.hr (in Croatian). 2019-10-18. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
  9. ^ "Slobodna Dalmacija - Split je konačno dobio 'pošteni' queer party, a heteroseksualci su totalno dobrodošli!". slobodnadalmacija.hr (in Croatian). 2017-01-19. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
  10. ^ Moss, Kevin (2014). Ayoub, Phillip M.; Paternotte, David (eds.). LGBT Activism and the Making of Europe: A Rainbow Europe?. Gender and Politics series. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp. 212–232. doi:10.1057/9781137391766_10. ISBN 978-1-137-39176-6.
  11. ^ "Clubture". www.clubture.org. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
  12. ^ "Split is voguing + FOTO – LGBT Centar Split" (in Croatian). Retrieved 2021-02-11.
  13. ^ MJ. "Strike a pose: Okušajte se u kategorijama new way i vogue femme". ezadar.net.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 2021-02-11.
  14. ^ "About this project | BEYOND BINARIES Erasmus+ project (B2 E+)". b2.queersport.info. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
  15. ^ "RYSE partners meet in Split | EUSA". www.eusa.eu. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
  16. ^ Patrikainen, Erika (2019-09-16). "EGLSF Project "CEEYOUSPORT"". EGLSF.info. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
  17. ^ "Subversive Sirens". www.wikidata.org. Retrieved 2021-02-12.

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