[18][MOVIE] WARWICK ROWERS 2019

The Warwick Rowers calendar began in 2009 as a fun way to help fund a university rowing programme. Since then, it has grown into an international campaign for LGBT rights and gender equality.

The phenomenal support for the calendar from the LGBT+ community led to the foundation of Sport Allies, a registered charity to make sport an active part of combatting homophobia and promoting gender equality. Sport Allies is funded by sales of Warwick Rowers products, including films, calendars, books, art, clothes and subscriptions.

Now, all our profits go to funding Sport Allies.

Sport Allies has identified that sport – and specifically team sport – is too often where narrow gender stereotypes are reinforced, squeezing many of us into boxes that we do not fit.

The Warwick Rowers project is about rejecting those stereotypes. We want to show what healthy masculinity looks like: men who are happy to be vulnerable, happy to be naked for you, regardless of your sexuality or gender, and happy to get close to each other.

Whoever you are, this calendar is for you. It’s for everyone.