We would like to invite you to join
Rally
Rally is a brand new social app built by and for the LGBTQIA+ community.
Our goal is amplify the work of local queer sports teams, businesses and individual
and help to foster a healthy, safe space for everyone in our community
to practise sports and fitness.
We would like to invite you to join our exciting new platform for our LGBTQ+ community
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Our Mission
Our dream is to make Rally the best place to go when looking to practise sports or fitness with other members of the LGBTQIA+ community. To open the doors to safe spaces for queer and trans people to play sports. To connect with like-minded individuals. To help build healthy friendships between all the different types of members of our community, away from the nightclub scene.
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Built for the community
We’ve built a platform specifically to support, uplift and amplify the work that local teams, businesses and professionals are doing to contribute to our awesome community. For non-profits we want to help you reach more people, and for businesses and professionals we want to help you make more money.
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Our agreement
We’re inviting you to be one of the first teams on our platform. We’ll help you to setup a profile, with some photos and events, and ask you to report any problems you have during the first few months. In exchange, we promise to do everything we can to promote your work, and won’t ever ask you to pay anything for that.
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Join us
We really believe Rally could be the exact social community that our community needs. And it all starts here. If you would like to form part of this adventure that we are on, which will hopefully take us around the world, we would love to invite you to join us.
What’s the plan?
We have a lot of work to do to make Rally a success. Here is our schedule to make it happen:
April 2023
Launch group chats for teams to communicate with local users
May 2023
Allow users to create events and invite other users to join them
August 2023
Add features to allow teams to manage their members and event payments
November 2023
Launch the Android app
FAQs
You probably have a bunch of questions, so here are some of the most common we get asked. And for anything else, just drop us a line: duncan@rally.lgbt
What can Rally do for my team?
Right now, we are here to promote your work to the local community. That means you can post info, links, photos and events (individual or recurring), and anyone that is interested can link through to your website, instagram or wherever you want.
And what about in the future?
Our goal is to make LGBTQ+ sports even more accessible to everyone in our community, so that means listening to the needs you and your team has, and building them into the app. Maybe those are membership features, community-building features, or just promotion and marketing. But we’ll work that out as we grow, based on your needs.
How much does it cost to appear on Rally?
Nothing. We have built Rally to support and amplify the work of the LGBTQ+ sports community. It would not make sense for us to ask our users or or teams to pay be on the app. Our goal is to entirely fund this platform from sponsorship from brands who are LGBTQ+ allies, and we commit to put back into the community as much as we can.
Who can use the Rally app?
Rally is open to everybody - whether you identify as a member of the LGBTQ+ community or are a straight ally. Our focus is on creating an accessible and inclusive space for members of our community and their their friends to practise sports.
Which teams can join Rally?
Whilst we launch Rally, we are only allowing teams, businesses and professionals who directly target the LGBTQ+ community to apply. This may change later, but for now we ask that you have a visible, direct reference to the LGBTQ+ community, inclusion or diversity on your website or social media accounts.
What kinds of teams are allowed to apply?
We are looking for teams, businesses and professionals that are focussed on sports, physical activity, and fitness. Whether you are a rugby team, a local gym, a HIIT workout crew, a personal trainer, bowling club, cycling group, football supporters group, mountain guide, sports umbrella organisation, whatever… we want to hear from you.
What is Rally’s inclusion policy for marginalised members of the community?
You are free to specify exactly who your teams is targetted at - whether that is everybody (regardless of their age, physical ability, sexual orientation, religion, race or gender) or specifically for a subset of our community (for example teams for BIPOC, only women+, older members of the community etc.). We fully support positive discrimination to provide safe spaces marginalised members of our community, however we will not support teams or events which negatively discriminate (i.e. excluding trans and non-binary people or excluding people because of their religion or race).
How will Rally protect the community from people who do not match its core value?
Rally has a reporting mechanism which means any content (users, teams, events, photos, comments, message) can be reported to us, and specific users and teams can be blocked by any user. We will investigate all reports, and automatically and permanently block any users which have actively gone against our core principals.
Are you in?
If you’re interested, we’d love to invite you to take part. Drop us some details here, with no compromise whatsoever, and when we’re ready we’ll send you a link to the app where you can signup, create your team, and help us to build the world’s greatest (and only) platform for LGBTQIA+ sports and fitness.