Playing for Pride 2025
Playing for Pride brings together both individuals and organizations to support Athlete Ally's mission of making sports inclusive for the LGBTQI+ community. Join the roster of one of our five official teams participating in the effort!
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Playing for Pride 2025 Challenge
PLAY. OUT. LOUD. Athlete Ally's Playing for Pride is our premier fundraising campaign. This campaign allows users to participate in a metrics-based fundraising campaign that raises money for Athlete Ally and tracks a fitness goal. You pledge an amount of $ for every time you complete your metric-based activity. For example, $5 for every mile run in the month of June. We encourage you to challenge yourself and be creative. You can donate a set amount per mile you run, for every pushup you do, or anything else! Select a specific metric from the dropdown menu that most closely aligns with what you will be tracking.
How it works
To join the 2025 Playing for Pride roster, join one of our 5 official teams by clicking "Join" at the top of the page or from the relevant link below! Teams this year include:
1. Professional Athlete Roster - current and former pro athletes! Join this team to be included alongside a growing list of current and former professional athletes Playing for Pride and demonstrating their support for our mission.
2. Corporate & Community Partners - are you part of a community organization or corporate ERG that wants to Play for Pride? Join this team and see how you match up against other partners!
3.) College Chapters & College Athletes - members of Athlete Ally's college chapter network and other college athletes can join this team to participate alongside their peer athletes and chapters from across the country!
4.) General Supporters - if you are an everyday athlete, fan, or general supporter of Athlete Ally's work, join this team to officially join the efforts. We're building the world's largest team of allies and want you to be a part of it!
5.) Teams & Leagues - demonstrate your full team or league's support of Playing for Pride by joining this team's growing list of organizations.
Playing for Pride History & 2025 Campaign Proceeds
In 2017, pro soccer player Austin da Luz saw the LGBTQI+ community in his state come under attack, and started Playing for Pride as a way for professional soccer players to show their support for LGBTQI+ inclusion in and through sport. Austin reached out to Athlete Ally in 2018 to take the reigns and help grow the impact. In the years since, Playing for Pride has mobilized athletes across sports, teams, leagues, sport reporters and fans to support LGBTQI+ inclusion in and through sport.
2025 Campaign Proceeds
This funding will go to Athlete Ally. We are the leading non profit at the intersection of LGBTQIA+ rights and sports. We believe now is the time for queer athletes and allies to PLAY OUT LOUD and show your bold support of the LGBTQIA+ community. Every dollar you raise will help us invest in young student athletes to allow them to fully be themselves and compete in the sports they love. The money we raise will also help us to work with our Athlete ambassador at the college and pro level to message and implement the values of collective allyship into the sports landscape. We are building the worlds biggest team and you are on it.
