QueerSportSplit
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Queer Sport Split (short: QSS) is a non-profit charity organization based in Split, Croatia, with a focus on sport, culture and leisure of LGBTIQ+ community. It is also working in non-formal education and research on discrimination and emancipation in the sport field. It was started in 2008 and registered as of 2011 and is the longest running and active LGBTIQ+ organization in Split.[1][2]
Local Activities
QSS is organizing periodic activities like: excursions and hiking, bocce, recreational swimming and socializing programs like 'Sport i pivo', 'PlesnjaQ' and 'Domaćinstvo'for LGBTIQ+ community. Counceling, screenings and presentations are also organized with a goal to inform and inspire participants. QSS helps in organizing Split Pride and takes part in running of LGBT Center Split.[3][4][5]
It does communal art in public space,[6] periodically hosts and works with international artists like Maria Molteni who writes:[7][8] 'Since 2011, Queer Sport Split has organized gatherings and interventions with “soft activism”: activism that intervenes in the public space of the city through crocheting and knitting. The first such intervention was during the planning of Split Pride in 2012, where knit flags pointed to the right of all citizens to public space, rights which the LGBTIQ population was denied by the local government. In 2014, Queer Sport Split held the Marathon On Needles, a public knit-in, to promote access to public space, guerrilla activism, and social participation.'
In last few years it has been prominent in organizing activities in popularising ballroom culture and vogue dance in cooperation with CLUBTURE. [9] [10] [11]
International Activities
It is internationally involved since 2012 as co-organiser of international konference Contesting/Contexting SPORT 2012, together with EPAS (sport body of Council of Europe), EGLSF (European Gay and Lesbian Federation) and qSPORT - Zagreb.
It contributes to prominent international exhibitions[12][13] and good practice publications.[14]
In 2018 it was leading internation Erasmus+ research project 'Beyond Binaries' with five other LGBTIQ+ sport and rekreation organizations, in collaboration with institutions, networks and initiativesactive 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.'[15]
As of 2019 it is part of Rainbow Youth for Sporting Equity - a research and education project led by LEAP Sports Scotland and European University Sport Assotiation[16] and CEE You SPORT led by EGLSF.[17]
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