As the AFLW's Pride Round gets underway, the league's stars explain why it is important, and why there is still a long way to go.
Brittany Bonnici and Brianna Davey after a Pride Round match last year. Davey plays her 50th game tonight in Collingwood 's pride match.The first pride match in the AFLW was in 2018, when the Western Bulldogs played Carlton, before a dedicated round was introduced in 2021.
"I do think if there was sort of more awareness back when I was thinking about my sexuality, and sort of battling with it a little bit, that would have made that a little bit easier." "Simply by including LGBTQ people in those clubs, in their W teams, what we're seeing is that clubs are being forced to reckon with the parts of their culture that were exclusionary to women or exclusionary to LGBTIQ people," Conway said."You know, because they are also workplaces for those players.
In community sport, a recent survey by Swinburne University of Technology found more than half of LGBTQ people witnessed some form of gay, bi, or transphobia, while 40 per cent reported first-hand experience of discrimination. "And so for as long as it is something that is considered unusual to be LGBTQ, that is how long we will need pride celebrations."Along with the celebrations — every club notably has a special Pride guernsey they don each season — the education element is equally important.
"For probably the older generation, just educating people on Pride Round as they're doing it ," Gay said.
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