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The Runner

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Posted by Buda Pest on Jul. 4, 2012
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"The Runner - Challenge Homophobia In Sport" is a short video made by  25 young people, who participated in the study session "Youth Sport speaks out on TabooPhobia" during this year's "Eurogames" in Budapets, with the end product a youth socialmedia campaign to challenge homophobia. If you like the video you can check us out on www.facebook.com/equalityinsports, twitter.com/equalityinsport and equalityinsports.blogspot.com! Winning is hard enough, don't make it even harder!

Stand out from the crowd, challenge homopbobia in Sport. Thank you!

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