The 1st Annual Esera Tuaolo’s Inclusion Party presented by Adidas was a massive success. Mahalo!
See all the photos from the 2018 Inclusion Party Here
Artists That Performed in 2018
Team Blake of Season 13 of NBC’s The Voice
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Rebecca Brunner
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Adam Cunningham
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Anna Catherine DeHart
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Dennis Drummond
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Kristie Hoopes
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Mitchell Lee
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Red Marlow
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Keisha Renee
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Ryan Scripps
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Natalie Stovall
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DJ Blowtorch
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DJ Mad Mardigan
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ESERA TUAOLO’S INCLUSION PARTY
LOCATION
The Pourhouse Downtown
10 S 5th St
Minneapolis, MN 55402
DATE
Wednesday / January 31, 2018
7:00pm–2:00am
TICKETS
Tickets are no longer available for this event.
EVENT SUMMARY
Esera Tuaolo’s Super Bowl Inclusion Party brings the LGBT and NFL communities closer together and raises financial, educational, and networking support for diversity and anti-bullying organizations. Come have fun, dance, and see some great performances while you support a great cause.
Doors open at 7 p.m. Limited tickets available for the meet and greet with Esera and entertainers from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. Performances by some of your favorite season 13 The Voice singers from 9:30 to 10:30 p.m. DJs will play music throughout the night. Entertainment specifics are subject to change.
Hate is Wrong’s purpose is to foster diversity in sports and anti-bullying among youth. It carries out this purpose in three ways. It helps deliver inclusion-based education across the country, throws the Super Bowl Inclusion Party, and seeks to implement anti-bullying family luaus in school districts across the country.
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PURPOSE
Esera Tuaolo hosts the Inclusion Party during Super Bowl week in Minneapolis. The purpose of the party is to foster diversity and inclusion—especially LGBT inclusion—in the National Football League (“NFL”) and, through the popularity of the NFL, to foster diversity and inclusion in the society as a whole.
1. LGBT Diversity in the NFL
LGBT diversity in the NFL has remained extraordinarily low. The NFL was founded in 1920. During almost a century of its existence, there have been only seven known gay NFL players. David Kopay was the first to come out as gay, followed by Jerry Smith, Ray McDonald, Esera Tuaolo, Roy Simmons, Kwame Harris, and Ryan O’Callaghan. Four additional players came out as gay, but were released before playing a single regular season game. They are Wade Davis, Dorien Bryant, Brad Thorson, and Michael Sam.
Undoubtedly, these are not the only gay players. They are merely the players who eventually became open with their sexuality. Many more exist, and many currently play while feeling forced to hide who they truly are.
The source of the above state of LGBT diversity in the NFL is no surprise: discrimination, namely, false assumptions about the NFL environment and the LGBT communities. People implicitly assume, without much thinking, that the NFL requires the utmost stereotypical masculinity, brute force, and callous strength. In contrast, people implicitly assume, without much thinking, that a gay, bisexual, or lesbian person is weak, fragile, and easily subdued. Years of exposure to such stereotypes, which continue to be publicly perpetuated today, support the implicit assumption that the NFL and the LGBT communities are like water and oil.
2. Esera Tuaolo’s Super Bowl Inclusion Party
The Super Bowl Inclusion Party is a yearly event administered in the city hosting the Super Bowl. It is the only event of its kind, and its inaugural party will be held on January 31, 2018, surrounding the 2018 Super Bowl.
The Super Bowl Inclusion Party has the three objectives. First, it seeks to eliminate the above explicit and implicit bias by bringing the NFL and the LGBT communities closer together. Second, the party will support the idea that inclusion comes from changing the whole NFL environment, not just relying on gay or bisexual players to do all the work. The party will bring together people of all identities—coaches, players, team owners, fans, and the like of all sexualities and genders—to publicly show support for inclusion. As the party grows in size and popularity, the change in and around the NFL will, too. Finally, the party seeks to cultivate a hate-free zone on which gay athletes can rely, whether closeted or open with their sexuality. Players will have a whole organization and many readily identifiable allies for support.
A significant portion of the money obtained through the party is donated to diversity centers and anti-bullying organizations within the host city. The Super Bowl Inclusion Party, then, is a traveling campaign of inclusion, moving yearly to each city hosting the Super Bowl and raising for inclusion-based organizations within that city much-needed financial, educational, and networking support.