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The gay and lesbian sports community has been bombarded by requests from media production companies for LGBT athletes and sports teams interested in being on camera for a TV show, a movie, or a documentary series.
Promoting your club or your team can be a great way to spread the word about rowing in the community and to develop new rowers. Your club may embrace the project with open arms or they may direct that the filming only focus on the rowers involved.
The key thing to understand is that the entertainment business is all about projects, pitches, and audience appeal. Those with the money, namely studios and networks, are inundated with pitches from production companies on a new idea or storyline. Conversely, a network may put out the word that they are looking for gay sports stories. Either way, the stories inevitably involve conflict, drama, and adversity. Keep that in mind from a club perspective. The publicity you garner may not always be favorable. Your focus may be rowing. Their focus is typically on the human drama element.
Normally, the studios and networks do not actually make the movie or documentary. They hire an independent production company, and there are more of them than all the Starbucks outlets combined. To be “greenlighted” as they say in the industry, a production company either has to have content (which the production company initially funds and tries to sell) or they have to have people “tied” to a project in order to get it funded.
So when you receive an email that says:
“XYZ - the new LGBT network from MEMEME Networks is looking for LGBT athletes blah blah blah,....Are you:
trying to create your own LGBT team?
already part of a competitive sports league?
about to try your hand at a new sport?
playing on a team with your partner or an ex-lover?
competing against your partner in a sport?
training for some 20xx event?
Remember that this is one of many production companies looking for people and organizations to help sell their project. All they care about is getting their project funded because then they become the “hot ticket” in the biz by name dropping their project as being “picked up” by XYZ network. So a word of warning. They may initially say yes, we want to film you, and then if the project is picked up, you, your team, or your club may be cut based on budgets, the studios, or the production company. Universally, a club or a team will not get any money for the project.
You may hope to show the boat rowing, coming together, training for a regatta, whatever the initial idea. They may cut out major parts of the filming to focus on hot bods, beautiful faces, fights, or most of all, disappointment and failure. The real story and what they show can be two very different things.
Finally, after all is said and done, and after you, your boat, your team, or your club has put enormous amounts of time and effort to help the production company with the documentary or reality series, they may decide to shelve the deal, or delay its screening. Or even worse, schedule the screening for some nonprime time slot that serves only as filler, like a Saturday morning.
We’re not saying you shouldn’t go for the chance to promote rowing but do it with your eyes wide open.
Oh yeah, let’s do lunch. Call me. Love ya!
GLRF offers unlimited opportunities to build community and connect with other rowers and members of the rowing community. Our internal social network features a robust group feature called, All Oars Groups.
Groups are great for creating community amongst a number of rowing clubs in a large city, for connecting athletes like juniors, university crews, or adaptive rowers, for regattas, and even for lgbt communities, boats, or squads in a large rowing club.
You can also use the All Oars Groups feature to create a virtual rowing club. With news, a forum, and messaging, you have almost everything you need to get up and running, and at zero cost. Yes, any GLRF member can create a group for free.
Any member can create their own group or join an existing group, depending on the level of privacy. Every group offers these key features to help connect members;
Self service group creation and administration
Staff levels: owner, administrators, and moderators
Three levels of privacy: public, private, and hidden
Individualized subdomains for listing on Facebook, gay and lesbian directories, and external websites
Group customization, featuring personalized banners and logos
Invite capability
Mass messaging to all group members
A dedicated forum that can have its own level of visibility to members and/or guests
‘Like’ topic notification
Ability to add links from the GLRF Share A Link list
A wall for quick posts
Image gallery for sharing images and videos
Group calendar features
RSS feeds for each group, including separate feeds for news articles and forum topics
Categories for quick search in a group directory
Take a look at the current group listing.
Gay and Lesbian rowers are involved in the entire spectrum of clubs and boathouses. Most of us row in clubs and boathouses without any specific affiliation or sexual orientation.
Some rowers have formed a specific club (with their own equipment) and row out of a common boathouse. That isn’t very unusual. A lot of boathouses have several tenant clubs with their own equipment. A good example is the DC Strokes Club. They row out of the Anacostia Boathouse.
Another type of club is one that pays fees to use the boathouse equipment. Still another example is a club that rows exclusively among themselves but all the members belong to the overall rowing club.
With some clubs, the rowers belong to the overall boathouse and have a social sub-club that puts together a boat for regattas and creates a basis for a social “community.” In Boston and Berlin, gay and lesbian rowers have formed what can best be described as regional groups, that provide an umbrella organization for all rowers that belong to various clubs in the metropolitan area.
Finally, there are the scullers who store their boats in the boathouse and row without a second thought to anyone or anything.
The bottom line is that we are there to row.
Why do gays and lesbians need a gay club? Just basic human needs - community, safety, sense of belonging, acceptance, things that never cross the mind of straight people.
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