Gay and Lesbian International Sport Association

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The Gay and Lesbian International Sport Association (GLISA) was an international gay and lesbian, culture and human rights association. Their last update was issued in March 2016,^[1] and the website has been offline since October 2017.^[2] The focus of GLISA was developing gay and lesbian sport worldwide. This was engineered through sanctioning world and continental games, creating a global calendar of LGBT events, fostering the creation of new LGBT federations, clubs and teams, supporting existing LGBT sport organizations, working in partnership with other sport organization to pursue this mandate, and providing the financial framework to support GLISA's global efforts.

The Gay and Lesbian International Sport Association was a democratically governed, international association of LGBT sport and human rights organizations. Modeled after existing multi-sport organizations, GLISA’s members were international sporting federations, human rights organizations, continental associations representing sport teams and clubs from the major regions of the world, host cities of GLISA’s World Outgames, and other organizations that support the mandate of GLISA.

GLISA aimed to expand LGBT rights by requiring that a human rights conference be included at every event sanctioned as an Outgames. The first World Outgames in Montreal, Canada, produced the Declaration of Montreal.

The organization cancelled the 2016 Asia Pacific Outgames, 2016 North American Outgames and 2017 World Outgames. According to some LGBTQ+ activists, GLISA had failed to achieve its vision and had damaged the greater LGBTQ+ Sports Community.^[3] These activists called on GLISA and the Outgames brand to formally dismantle and dissolve.^[4]