Activism

AFL Pride Game Reclaims the Football Field for the LGBTQ Community

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“Pride is the opposite of shame.”

What might seem like just a useful reminder to you or I is so much more to one Australian football team. According to a media release on the St. Kilda Saints' website, the saying is also one main reason why they’re helping to make history by taking part in the Australian Football League’s (AFL) first ever Pride Game. “Finnis said the Saints were committed to this game because ‘pride’ is the opposite of ‘shame’ and that St Kilda firmly believes that communities can only thrive when all people belong," reads part of the release. It has taken the AFL awhile to reach this point.

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Some Heroes Wear Capes, Others Wear Tank Tops: One Man’s Story of Surviving the Pulse Nightclub Shooting

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Amit Kalantri once said that, “Someone needs to fight, someone needs to sacrifice, someone needs to inspire, someone needs to be a hero.”

The night of the shooting at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida; 24-year-old club-goer, Joe Galligan, stepped up to the plate and did all of the above.  

Galligan, originally from Yonkers, NY; moved to Orlando, Florida for graduate school. He was accepted to a PhD program in Industrial & Organizational Psychology; and in May 2015, he took his Masters degree in the same thing. He completed his undergraduate studies at University at Albany—double majoring in Psychology and Sociology, and minoring in Education. Galligan’s interest in serving his community and helping those around him began long before that night at Pulse.