Gay running

Supporting our club helps us with the purchasing of water for Saturdays, subsidizing club events, volunteering and the upkeep of newsletter and website requirements. At the end of March, 2022, he came in 5th at the Philly Love Run Half Marathon, and in October 2022, came in 12th place at the Hartford Marathon.

“I'm very thankful for running, for having a built-in support network of people that I knew would accept me no matter what, but also having something that encouraged me to believe that I could be whatever I wanted to be, to believe that I had daily representation of what it was like to be courageous.”

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It was during the Runners Alliance virtual workshop “Running Proud,” that Llano first learned his coming out story had inspired Bracy.

In 2020, CeCé initially qualified for the Olympic trials in June but was deemed ineligible due to one of the various pieces of legislation targeting transgender women in sports. At the World Championships in 2019, she sported rainbows on her shoes in Qatar, where homosexuality is criminalized, showing how powerful representation in sports can be.

Addie Bracy transitioned to ultra trail running in 2016 after a long career on the track and the road and won her first trail race at the US Mountain Running Championships in 2016.

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“It's really important to acknowledge that members of the LGBTQ+ community and other marginalized people have not always felt welcomed as runners," Dreher says.

For so long, the experiences of LGBTQ+ people have been dismissed, but it’s time for everyone to look inward and find ways to become a better ally.

He’s not afraid to be himself in the outdoors and advocates that the outdoors is for everyone.

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During the 2016 track season, the burden of keeping her sexuality a secret took a toll on Bracy, and her performances on the track suffered. In 2021, she was named the number 10 ultra runner of the year by Ultra Running Mag.

Currently, she is co-hosting the Out Trails LGBTQ+ Running Retreat in October 2022 with Ryan Montgomery.

Jordan McMeans is a distance runner that is also very active on Tik-Tok.

The couple realized they wanted to connect the two communities in an effort to support and empower LGBTQ+ runners and invite members of the LGBTQ+ community to embrace running. This month, we want to highlight some LGBTQ+ runners we think you should know!At Run The Edge, our mission statement is "Everyone Included. You may have seen him on Tik-Tok (or IRL) at the top of a mountain covered in glitter, holding a pride flag, or even shotgunning a beer.

“There’s a difference between not discriminating and being actively inclusive, and we want to encourage the action part.”

In the last year and a half, Bracy and Conner have created a network of OUTrun chapters that host group runs and advocate for LGBTQ+ communities around the country.

But after she came out to her support network and publicly in a blog post, Bracy’s life changed forever.

We do welcome and appreciate individual donations in any amount. “They have faced discrimination and unfriendly race environments, and many have fewer opportunities for sponsorship. One of his goals with his career and this challenge is to bring more people of color and people from the LGBTQ+ community into the sport, hoping his representation and visibility within the sport can encourage other people in the community to get involved.

Mikey Mitchell is an ultra-runner that has a unique way of doing things.

His first ultra run was the Leadville, CO 100 in 2021 and his second was the Quad Rock 50-miler in Fort Collins, CO, where he came in third place. Weeks later, she won her first-ever trail race at the 2016 U.S. Mountain Running Championships.

Moderated by Beth Dreher, the executive editor of Good Housekeeping, the October 27 webinar featured the experiences of LGBTQ+ runners in a discussion between Llano, Chris Mosier, and Runners Alliance ambassadors Bracy and Latoya Shauntay Snell.