Game On!

Welcome to Game On JOY 94.9’s Home of Sport every Wednesday from 6-7pm where you’ll hear where you can get your game on! This show is all about showcasing where sport is safe, inclusive, welcoming and fun for the Rainbow community! It was an absolute pleasure to welcome Jackie Rosario Diversity & Inclusion Coordinator and Stuart Murphy President of the Red Tag Fly Fishers to the JOY Sport Studio to share the joys of fly fishing! Catch a rainbow and head along to their Come and Try day on Saturday 17 May at Yarra Bend to recognise IDAHOBIT day – International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia! The event is free, it’s fun and it’s a welcoming introduction to the world of fly fishing, with hands-on activities like casting, fly tying, and checking out all the gear. There’ll be prizes, giveaways and a light lunch too! Give it a go – you might get hooked! (Starts 1min 50secs) IDAHOBIT Day is such a important day  – a day dedicated to raising awareness and taking action against discrimination and violence experienced by the LGBTQIA+ community. The date marks the anniversary of the World Health Organization’s decision in 1990 to remove homosexuality from its list of mental disorders. We talk pride in netball with David Capron – a nonbinary netball player who was featured on the front page of the Herald Sun on ANZAC Day with the headline Netbrawl. David enacted the Netball Victoria community sport policy and has played for both the men’s and women’s teams causing a kerfuffle. We delve into how participation in sport is evolving and changing. (Starts 15mins 15 secs) Have you ever wanted to try out a new sport but been too shy or second guessed yourself? Dean Murphy, author, Mindset Coach, Springboard Diving Coach and JOY 94.9 Life Member joined Game On in the JOY Sport Studio after 6.30pm with Tips for Turning Up – Overcoming nerves for newbies! 5,4,3,2,1 let’s go! Give Dean a follow on TikTok for more life tips! (Starts 25mins) A big thank you to our wonderful guests for their support of an inclusive and supportive sporting culture and mindset, and encouraging everyone in the Rainbow community to get their game on! And thank you for being a part of Team Game On! The post We get our game on with the Red Tag Fly Fishers, netballer David Capron and Mindset Coach Dean Murphy appeared first on Game On!.

Welcome to Game On JOY 94.9’s Home of Sport every Wednesday from 6-7pm where you’ll hear where you can get your game on! This show is all about showcasing where sport is safe, inclusive, welcoming and fun for the Rainbow community! A shout out to all the sporty lesbians! This week is Lesbian Visibility Week running from the 21 to the 27 April! We are joined by Paul Heptonstall, General Manager Wellbeing and Education of the NRL and the Rugby League Players Association who took out the Ally of the Year Award at the 2025 Pride in Sport awards! Paul outlines inclusion initiatives in rugby league, the locker room as a safe space for players to be their authentic self, and the journey to achieving the commitment of the code to welcoming everyone regardless of race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic. (Starts at  three minutes) We talk Pride in Fencing with Avery Holderness-Roddam, Participation Manager – The Australian Fencing Federation. Newly appointed Avery shares his journey in fencing as a trans man and encourages us to head along to an inclusive event on this Saturday – Come Out and Fence: Intro to Fencing for LGBTQI+ People – at the State Fencing Centre in North Melbourne from 3.00-5.30pm. (Starts at 18 minutes) We talk with Keir Forde, Director of Stakeholder Engagement Emerald City Kickball about this fun new sport in Melbourne! With over 80 members already, six teams and a waitlist what are you waiting for? Head along to the massive showdown event on this Sunday and join in the mission to empower and better connect the LGBTQIA+ community through fun, accessible safe spaces and team sports! (Starts at 32 minutes) A big thank you to our wonderful guests for their support of an inclusive and supportive sporting culture and mindset, and encouraging everyone in the Rainbow community to get their game on! And thank you for being a part of Team Game On! The post We get our game on with Paul Heptonstall (NRL), Avery Holderness-Roddam (Fencing), Keir Forde (ECKickball) appeared first on Game On!.

Welcome to Game On JOY 94.9’s Home of Sport every Wednesday from 6-7pm where you’ll hear where you can get your game on! This show is all about showcasing where sport is safe, inclusive, welcoming and fun for the Rainbow community! On the show we speak with Pride In Sport award nominee – Ben Dew, Inclusion, Equity and Diversity Pathways and Events Specialist with Tennis Australia who is in the LGBTQ+ Ally of the Year Awards category about inclusion in tennis. Ben talks us through where Tennis Australia has demonstrated sustainable committed to increasing opportunities and accessibility to tennis for LGBTQ+ people. And after 6,30 we replay an interview on an earlier show with Zander Murray, the first male Scottish senior player to come out as gay. Zander shares his struggle with his sexuality and hiding his authentic self at the same time as forging a career as a professional footballer and being a top goal scorer. If you are ever in Scotland, you can check out his jersey which he wore when he came out – it’s now proudly on display as an artefact in the Scottish Football Museum. It’s there so that school kids visiting can see that today there is a place for the LGBTIQA+ community to be out, loud and proud in elite male sport! We also hear from Keir Ford, Committee member Emerald City Kickball and James Goldsworthy aka The Silver Stone about why you should join the Kickballers every Sunday afternoon for a kick in the park with friends! A big thank you to our wonderful guests for their support of an inclusive and supportive sporting culture and mindset, and encouraging everyone in the Rainbow community to get their game on! And thank you for being a part of Team Game On! The post We get our game on with Ben Dew, Tennis Australia and Zander Murray, LGBTIQA+ advocate appeared first on Game On!.

Welcome to Game On JOY 94.9’s Home of Sport every Wednesday from 6-7pm where you’ll hear where you can get your game on! This show is all about showcasing where sport is safe, inclusive, welcoming and fun for the Rainbow community! Gindi Wauchope, Head Coach at The School of Historical Fencing, joins the show to share the unique sport of historical fencing and why it could be the perfect sport for you! (Starts 2mins 30secs)  We head to Adelaide to speak with Daniel Lawlor, Manager Sport Development, Adelaide University Sport and Fitness about pride across the University, the exciting LGBTIQA+ sporting clubs in South Australia and an exciting event on Saturday from 8-12pm as part of the Australian Pride In Sport Festival! Daniel also gives us a review of Australian basketball superstar Isaac Humphries’ Adelaide Fringe Festival show More of Me giving his performance away from the basketball court and on the musical stage a rating out of 10!  (Starts 12mins) We speak with Julie Charlton, OAM, Founder, CEO and Head Coach JC2 Athletics, Para-athlete and Finalist in the Pride In Sport LGBT Role Model award category about the intersectionality between sport and gender identity, what being  role model means to Julie and how spina bifida has enriched her life! (Starts 22mins 29 secs) And a shout out from Shane Crawford former AFL superstar with the Hawthorn Football Club and now Get behind it! Ambassador about the importance of getting tested, the free National Bowel Cancer Screening program and how easy it is to stay healthy and safe! (Starts 29mins 36secs) A big thank you to our wonderful guests for their support of an inclusive and supportive sporting culture and mindset, and encouraging everyone in the Rainbow community to get their game on! And thank you for being a part of Team Game On! The post We get our game on with Gindi Wauchope (Historical Fencing), Daniel Lawlor (Adelaide University pride), Julie Charlton OAM Para-athlete and Disability Advocate appeared first on Game On!.

Welcome to Game On JOY 94.9’s Home of Sport every Wednesday from 6-7pm where you’ll hear where you can get your game on! This show is all about showcasing where sport is safe, inclusive, welcoming and fun for the Rainbow community! We welcome Beau Newell, National Program Manager Pride In Sport, to Game On with an insightful update on what is happening in Rainbow sport globally and also across Australia as part of the exciting inaugural Pride In Sport Festival. (Starts 2 minutes 30 seconds) We chat competitive pinball with Lita Neptune – one of the awesome hosts of Joy 94.9’s Geeks OUT and learn all about this fantastic sport! Lita will be heading to Brisbane to compete in the Brisbane Pinball and Arcade Collective 2025 The Clubhouse July 16-20 – the 10th Annual Brisbane Pinball Masters! (Starts 12 minutes) And we are joined in the JOY Sport Studio by Marina Jansen, Melbourne Frontrunners member, and Dr Ruth McNair – an expert in lesbian and bisexuals women’s health – to hear about the Melbourne Frontrunners Queer Women’s Health Night sponsored by Thorne Harbour Health on Tuesday April 8 in Abbotsford. We discuss health across a lifetime – in  each decade, recommended interventions and current research into women’s health. (Starts 22 minutes 15 seconds) A big thank you to our wonderful guests for their support of an inclusive and supportive sporting culture and mindset, and encouraging everyone in the Rainbow community to get their game on! And thank you for being a part of Team Game On! The post Beau Newell – Pride In Sport, Lita Neptune – Competitive Pinball, Marina Jansen – Melbourne Frontrunners, Dr Ruth McNair – LGBT women’s health specialist appeared first on Game On!.

Welcome to Game On! JOY 94.9’s Home of Sport every Wednesday from 6-7pm where you’ll hear where you can get your game on! This show is all about showcasing where sport is safe, inclusive, welcoming and fun for the Rainbow community! Chris Wells, President of the Melbourne Rovers, an inclusive soccer club shares exciting news about the Club’s involvement with A-Leagues club Melbourne Victory as part of the annual Pride Cup now in its third consecutive year. Melbourne Victory is a club for everyone who calls Melbourne home no matter your sexual orientation, gender, ability, or faith – the game of football should be a place where everyone is celebrated and feels included. That’s the message behind the Pride Cup as part of the league wide Pride Celebration. You can catch all the action this Saturday 29 March at AAMI Park for the double header between Melbourne Victory and Adelaide United! (Starts 2 minutes 12secs) Adam Trapksi, Founder of 3 Hearts Motorsport joins the show to encourage us to get involved  with motorsport sharing his journey with a call out for JOYsters interested in being part The Rainbow Shoelace Project BMW! Keen to be a driver, mechanic, sponsor or pit crew? Reach out to Adam on Facebook The Rainbow Shoelace Project BMW or email adamtrapski@yahoo.com and be part of supporting The Rainbow Shoelace Project the fantastic initiative of teenager Abbie Jane where everyone can  show support to the LGBTIQ+ community by wearing Pride coloured beads on your shoelaces! (Starts 10 minutes) Zander Murray, the first male Scottish senior player to come out as gay, is on the line from Bonnie Scotland talking about coming out and accepting yourself, being a top goal scorer (100 goals!), having his jersey in the Scottish Football Museum, his documentary Out on the Pitch and Dare To Defy, his advocacy work paving the way for others in the world game, and his involvement with the A-Leagues Pride Cup – Original Rivalry game on this Saturday 29 March at AAMI Park. Give Zander a follow on Instagram Zandermurrrayoffical – he’ll be sure to put a smile on your face as he tackles homophobia in football with charm, charisma and a good dose of Scottish banter! (Starts 18 minutes 44 seconds) To close we hear from Melbourne Victory Managing Director – Caroline Carnegie and Head Women’s Coach Jeff Hopkins about the importance of the Pride Cup for the club! A big thank you to our wonderful guests for their support of an inclusive and supportive sporting culture and mindset, and encouraging everyone in the Rainbow community to get their game on! And thank you for being a part of Team Game On! The post Chris Wells – Melbourne Rovers, Adam Trapski – The Rainbow Shoelace Project BMW, Zander Murray – Football LGBTIQA+ Advocate appeared first on Game On!.

Welcome to Game On! JOY 94.9’s Home of Sport every Wednesday from 6-7pm where you’ll hear where you can get your game on! This show is all about showcasing where sport is safe, inclusive, welcoming and fun for the Rainbow community! Helen Adams one of the Co-Founders of Lesbirun joins Game On to talk about how members not only run, walk, stroll and have coffee – they go on to the AFLW games after their Sunday run and have started hiking! Check out their socials for heaps of cool events! (Starts 3minutes) Ally David Keogh, Diversity and Inclusion Officer with the Collaroy Tennis Club on the Northern Beaches shares the exciting details of their awesome free community event promoting inclusivity, celebrating diversity and encouraging LGBTQ+ participation in sports on this Saturday – a tennis event with a carnival atmosphere! The Club has been awarded a grant to participate in the inaugural Australian Pride in Sport Festival.  This will be a fantastic Twilight Event, held at the Club from 4pm on Saturday March 22, organised together with Fusion Pride Northern Beaches. The event is also designed to raise funds for Lifeline Northern Beaches who each year support hundreds in the local community who are experiencing distress. (Starts 10minutes40seconds) Fab Segi and  Desi O’Brien, Committee Members with Melbourne Motorcycle Tourers join Game On in the JOY 94.9 Sport Studio to encourage you to join them on a ride! Melbourne Motorcycle Tourers  is a club for LGBTIQA+ motorcyclists based in Melbourne but welcome riders from all over Victoria. Whether you are looking to ride with friends around the streets of Melbourne, up to Uluru, across to Tasmania, Kangaroo island, Mount Kosciuszko or out for their regular dinner catch ups then this is the club for you! (Starts 21minutes) A big thank you to our guests for their support of an inclusive and supportive sporting culture and mindset, and encouraging everyone in the Rainbow community to get their game on! And thank you for being a part of Team Game On! The post Helen Adams – Lesbirun, David Keogh – Collaroy Tennis Club, Fab Segi and Desi O’Brien – Melbourne Motorcycle Tourers appeared first on Game On!.

Welcome to Game On! JOY 94.9’s Home of Sport every Wednesday from 6-7pm where you’ll hear where you can get your game on! This show is all about showcasing where Welcome to Game On! JOY 94.9’s Home of Sport every Wednesday from 6-7pm where you’ll hear where you can get your game on! This show is all about showcasing where sport is safe, inclusive, welcoming and fun for the Rainbow community! We talk ice-hockey and finding your community with Andrew Doogie MacDougall Podcast Host and Creator of the Pride and Puck Podcast! Andrew shares his love for the sport of ice hockey and how not only has the podcast enriched the lives of others across Australia and around the world but it has in turn enriched his. Give the podcast a follow and check out the episodes over the past two years. (3:22) Ally Natalie Tobin, Captain of the Ninja A-Leagues team Sydney FC the Sky Blues takes some timeout from training to chat about the annual Pride Celebration taking place from March 14 to March 30 across the ALeagues. The Sky Blues will be wearing a Unity Kit for the first time as they take to the field for the Men’s and Women’s matches on Saturday and Sunday this weekend. (14:00) We talk motorsport because of course the Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix is in Melbourne! The first ever free fan festival opened today running until the 16 March at Melbourne Park and the four days of trackside action starts tomorrow at Albert Park with the race on Sunday. Kade Matthews, Racing Pride Ambassador and Proud2Play Community Manager is in the JOY Sport Studio to tell us all about the exciting and unique Pride Hub at the Grand Prix for the second year. (26:26) And Kade is joined by Jessica Alexander the first openly trans woman to win a Motorsport UK governed karting championship by claiming a title at Warden Law circuit! Jessica is a Pro Kart Driver, British Endurance Champion 2023 & 2024, Warden Law Champion 2023 & 2024  and an incredible role model for the LGBTIQA+ community looking to enjoy and thrive in motorsport. Head to the Pride Hub over the four days and make sure to say hi! A big thank you to our guests for their support of an inclusive and supportive sporting culture and mindset, and encouraging everyone in the Rainbow community to get their game on! And thank you for being a part of Team Game On! The post Andrew Doogie MacDougall (Ice-hockey), Natalie Tobin (Sydney FC ), Kade Matthews and Jess Alexander (Racing Pride) appeared first on Game On!.

Welcome to Game On! JOY 94.9’s Home of Sport every Wednesday from 6-7pm where you’ll hear where you can get your game on! This show is all about showcasing where sport is safe, inclusive, welcoming and fun for the Rainbow community! Tanya Hosch, AFL’s Executive General Manager of Inclusion and Social Policy joined the show to share a fantastic initiative in sport and the AFL – a dedicated LGBTQIA+ education module aimed at targeting homophobia in the sport. The module must be completed by all 787 players and 3232 officials before the start of the AFL season with all AFLW players also included for the start of their season later this year. It’s fantastic that the AFL continues to advocate for the LGBTIQA+ community to be welcome in our national game on and off the field while sending the strong message that homophobic language is not welcome in sport. (Starts 2 minutes) We spoke with Beau Newell, National Program Manager Pride In Sport about the positivity of the Pride In Sport Awards with the Finalists about to be announced for the year, inputs into the AFL LGBTQIA+ education module, and the Australian Pride In Sport Festival and all the fun to be had! Take a look at the Calendar of Events for heaps of fun sport sessions running across February until April! (Starts 14 minutes 18 seconds) If you would like to get out and about in nature, Sigrid Pitkin, Committee Member with Climbing QTs joined us to invite you on a hike! The Climbing QTs climbing group has ventured further afield and have started group hikes.  Their first hike was a sell-out! Sigrid has lots of fantastic information about how you can get involved and get hiking with the Hiking QTs! (Starts 24 minutes 33 seconds) And with the AFL Season 2025 about to begin its the perfect time to get onboard and join one of the may AFL LGBTIQA+ supporter groups – like the Ruby Demons – an inclusive supporter group for all LGBTIQ Melbourne fans and anyone who loves the Melbourne Football Club! Katie Purvis, President of the Ruby Demons loves the Dees and you are invited to join the group and enjoy all the thrills and spills across the season with pride! (Starts 32 minutes 49 seconds) A big thank you to our guests for their support of an inclusive and supportive sporting culture and mindset, and encouraging everyone in the Rainbow community to get their game on! And thank you for being a part of Team Game On! The post Tanya Hosch (AFL), Beau Newell (Pride In Sport), Sigrid Pitkin (Hiking QTs), Katie Purvis (Ruby Demons – AFL) appeared first on Game On!.

Welcome to Game On! JOY 94.9’s Home of Sport every Wednesday from 6-7pm across summer where you’ll hear where you can get your game on! This show is all about showcasing where sport is safe, inclusive, welcoming and fun for the Rainbow community! A spot of tennis anyone? We spoke with welcome Jess Chalmers, Committee member for Amazon Women’s Tennis, a safe space for LGBTQIA + Women and all trans, gender diverse and non-binary, about the fun to be had at the Glam Slam, the Gay Games,  the Open Day on the 9th March, and the Compass Singles Tournament as part of the Australian Pride In Sport Festival – Calendar of Events!  Pop Sunday 27th April in your diary and enjoy a vibrant celebration of sport and community for LGBTQIA+ women held on the same weekend as Lesbian Visibility Day! (Starts 6mins) We spoke about sailing in stunning Sydney Harbour with Jorgen Kristoffersen from the Greenwich Flying Squadron Sailing Club about his incredible new event the Sydney Pride Regatta as part of the Pride In Sport Festival! It was such a huge success it is now to be the traditional opening event for Sydney Mardi Gras! (Starts 15:38mins) The Minister for Tourism, Sport and Major Events Steve Dimopoulos jumped on the line to talk sport across Victoria and the excitement of the National Football League (NFL) regular season game coming to the MCG as part of a multi-year commitment from spring 2026! We also spoke Gay Games 2030 and the support of the LGBTIQA+ community in sport. (Starts 26:27mins) And Niko Seneviratne the Director and Founder of Generation Dodgeball encouraged us to get involved with dodgeball but to maybe avoid the movie Dodgeball – A true underdog story!  Check out Niko’s event on Monday 3rd March at the Auburn High School in Hawthorn East – a Drop-In Dodgeball session as part of the Australian Pride In Sport Festival Calendar. (Starts 37:58) Take a squiz at the Calendar of Events for heaps of fun sport sessions running across February until April! A big thank you to our guests for their support of an inclusive and supportive sporting culture and mindset, and encouraging everyone in the Rainbow community to get their game on! And thank you for being a part of Team Game On! The post Jess Chalmers (Tennis), Jorgen Kristoffersen (Sailing), Steve Dimopoulos, Minister for Sport, Niko Seneviratne (Dodgeball) appeared first on Game On!.