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A tennis platform for the LGBTQ+ community

All of LGBTQ+ tennis, one place.

@LOVE brings together all of LGBTQ+ tennis- players, fans, groups, tournaments, and multimedia- on one platform, making it for LGBTQ+ people, everywhere, to learn, play, compete, and connect.

THE MISSION.

Our mission is to make the social, physical, and mental health benefits of tennis more accessible to LGBTQ+ people, and, in so doing, all of tennis more LGBTQ+ inclusive.

STORIES AND SOCIALS.

Check out our IG, Facebook, Substack and Linktree for photos, profiles, articles, and updates from around the LGBTQ+tennis world, local clubs to GLTA tournaments.

PROGRAMMING.

In-person and virtual programs like our Pride tournaments, Out@Tennis exhibit, and Brooklyn and New Jersey programs, focus on increasing access and inclusion.

OUT@TENNIS

Out@Tennis 2024 is a visual journey through the world of LGBTQ+ tennis, from local parks to GLTA tournaments, told through 30+ photos in three separate shows, anchored by the work of player-photographer Sidney Beal III.

On view at the Brooklyn Community Pride Center through January 29, 2025.

Out@Tennis 2025 will be our National Tennis Month celebration in May.

What is the LGBTQ+Tennis Community?

Beginning in the late 1970s, from Dallas and San Diego to London and Sydney, LGBTQ+tennis groups started forming worldwide, marketed through word of mouth, local gay press, and LGBTQ+ centers. They organized leagues and social tennis and soon local and regional tournaments. In 1991, following the robust tennis turnout at the Vancouver Gay Games, the Gay and Lesbian Tennis Alliance (GLTA) was formed to support and sanction tournaments.

Today, LGBTQ+tennis is the world’s most expansive LGBTQ+ sports community, comprising hundreds of thousands of players and fans, dozens of local groups and leagues, 80+ GLTA tournaments, blogs, brands, and podcasts, spanning five continents. Click on photos below from our "Seen@" exhibit to learn more about typical aspects of the GLTA tournament experience.