www.creatingchange.orgEquality Coach Alliance membership hits 1,000Equality Coaching Alliance, an online support network for LGBTQ+ sports coaches, administrators, and staff, recently hit the 1,000-member mark, founder Roger Brigham announced.Brigham, a longtime wrestling coach and sports columnist for the Bay Area Reporter, started the organization nine years ago as an outreach initiative of the Federation of Gay Games.
At the time, Brigham knew less than a handful of LGBT coaches who were out at work. (Brigham's Jock Talk column is on hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic.)Brigham formed the idea for the group while he was volunteering on the FGG's external affairs committee.