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ITALIA IN CAMPO CONTRO L’OMOFOBIA
Italia in campo contro l’omofobia
AWARDS 2023
2nd edition
Giorgio Minisini
“The most LGBTI+ Inclusive Athlete” category
Italia in campo contro l’omofobia
AWARDS 2023
2nd edition
Juventus
“The most LGBTI+ Inclusive Sporting Club” category
Italia in campo contro l’omofobia
AWARDS 2023
2nd edition
Alessandra Di Stefano
“The most LGBTI+ Inclusive Sporting Journalist” category
Italia in campo contro l’omofobia
AWARDS 2023
2nd edition
Lazio e Libertà APS
“The most LGBTI+ Inclusive Cheering Section” category
Italia in campo contro l’omofobia
AWARDS 2023
2n edition
Runaway Milano ASD
“The most LGBTI+ Inclusive Outdoor Sporting Agency” category
In May 2023, Arcigay launched the second, renewed edition of the “Italia in campo contro l’omofobia AWARDS”, the first-ever Arcigay’s nation-wide sports-related award aiming at contrasting all forms of hatred and discrimination in the sporting environment, by recognising, acknowledging and rewarding the importance of visibility and representation of the LGBTI+ community in the sports sector.
According to Arcigay’s vision and mission, along with families and schools, sports is the social sphere where individuals get shaped to respect and enhance differences the most. In 2023, the North Face, leading outdoor performance clothing and gear brand, which has been cooperating with Arcigay for years in order to promote the advancement of civil rights in Italy, formally partnered with Arcigay for the second edition of “Italia in campo contro l’omofobia AWARDS”, furtherly promoting the transformative and inclusive power of sports efficiently combatting all forms of hatred and discrimination.
The second edition of “Italia in campo contro l’omofobia AWARDS” began on May 10th 2023 and ended on July 1st 2023.
The categories to be awarded increased from 4 to 5:
The most LGBTI+ Inclusive Athlete
The most LGBTI+ Inclusive Sporting Club
The most LGBTI+ Inclusive Cheering Section
The most LGBTI+ Inclusive Sporting Journalist
The most LGBTI+ Inclusive Outdoor Sporting Agency
The award selection committee comprises both a technical jury of LGBTI+ sports experts and a popular jury, being the overall jury composed of both the members of the “Sports Group” of Arcigay and the representatives of 35 Italian LGBTI+ Sports teams/groups.
The selection committee convened on Saturday June 3rd 2023, on the occasion of the DOLOMITI PRIDE in Trento.
Jointly to the commission’s vote, single individuals could express their online preferences on the website www.arcigaysport.it from June 4th to June 18th 2023.
The closing award ceremony for AWARDS 2023 took place at the NAPOLI PRIDE on July 1st 2023.
Applications were open from May 10th 2023 to May 31st 2023. Applications in all categories are evaluated on a range of criteria, including the nature and scope of initiatives, ownership and level of commitment, their impact, quality and sustainability of initiatives and the direct involvement of people exposed to anti-LGBTI+ discrimination in policy-making. Written applications for the five above-mentioned categories are to be submitted to the official e-mail address of the Sports Groups of Arcigay, sport@arcigay.it. The applicants are expected to substantially prove the high-standard quality of the activities the applicants themselves previously implemented to the direct benefit of the social inclusion and both individual and collective well-being of LGBTI+ people in their corresponding sporting context of reference. Each applicant is supposed to submit a formal candidacy detailedly describing each sport-related public LGBTI-inclusive declaration, position statement and initiatives respectively released and carried out throughout the preceding year.
Winners 2022
Italia in campo contro l’omofobia
AWARDS
1st edition
Claudio Marchisio
“The most LGBTI+ Inclusive Athlete” category
https://www.facebook.com/Arcigay/videos/1102855306932948
Juventus
“The most LGBTI+ Inclusive Sporting Club” category
https://www.facebook.com/Arcigay/videos/790364465459859
Francesca Fagnani
“The most LGBTI+ Inclusive Sporting Journalist” category
https://www.facebook.com/Arcigay/videos/1170438887138810
Pazzi di Rugby
“The most LGBTI+ Inclusive Cheering Section” category
https://www.facebook.com/Arcigay/videos/788896835813072
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The Vision of the “Sports Group” of Arcigay
Sports, having both the potential and responsibility to promote education, respect, inclusion and companionship, is one of the social settings where individuals get educated about respect and the value of diversity the most.
Unfortunately, in Italy, in sports it’s still nowadays difficult to come out and freely live one’s sexual orientation or gender identity, regardless of the type of sport being practiced.
Homophobia, transphobia, and any form of hatred that manifests in sporting events or sports facilities must be fought against, and it’s time for sports organizations to take a visible step forward on the above-mentioned issues. Sport is a tool to spread positive and educational messages.
Arcigay aims to provide a safe space where people may find information about LGBTI-inclusive teams and sports initiatives, to promote the establishment and exchange of LGBTI-inclusive sports-related best practices.
Arcigay opted for the designing of an Arcigay Sport Map and the opening of an Instagram profile Arcigaysport in order to give a voice to all LGBTI+ athletes in Italy and beyond, as well as to sports fans, sports executives, coaches, referees, spectators, and enthusiasts of LGBTI+ sports throughout the country.
If you are part of a team or a sporting group, if you want to build a team, if you are in need of any information about Arcigay’s sports-related projects, contact Marco Arlati,
the first-ever “Sports Affairs Coordinator” of Arcigay, Marco Arlati and elected member of the national Executive Board of Arcigay.
Phone: +39 3478664745 Email: sport@arcigay.it
The Mission of the “Sports Group” of Arcigay
-Combating homophobia and transphobia in sports at all levels, beginning with the submission of a formal request to several CONI (Italian National Olympic Committee) federations to commit themselves against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity;
-Echoing the benefits of an inclusive sports culture within the LGBTI+ community, giving space and importance to all sports initiatives that have emerged in Italy in recent years and facilitating the rising of further ones;
-Providing cooperative third parties with full support to address and solve the massive issue of insults in stadiums and arenas, insults that are at the very root of anti-LGBTI+ hatred in sport and undermine the values that sport itself upholds;
-Promoting coming out in sports;
-Establishing collaborations and synergies at major sporting events in Italy, adopting strategic tools for promoting well-being and the country’s civil and social growth, leveraging the potential of sports for the promotion of civil rights and the fight against all forms of discrimination;
-Developing and promoting diversity management and equality tools and standards within companies and organizations that believe in the potential inclusiveness of all sports, by investing and taking on the role of sponsors and/or owners.
On May 4, 2016, the 244th National Council of the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) amended its statute to insert an ad-hoc provision aiming at combatting discrimination based on sexual orientation in sports. However, more than two years later, none of the sports federations affiliated with CONI has embodied that specific provision into its corresponding statute.
Arcigay calls on the CONI federations to adopt a specific statutory provision prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity.