"Sports Heroes: Paving the Way for Queer Youth" was a community event organized by Supporting Our Youth and held on Monday June 21st 1999, featuring famous and inspirational Canadian sports figures. Five professional and/or elite athletes were brought together to participate in a community panel facilitated by Professor Brian Pronger from the University of Toronto Physical Education Department.

The participants in this forum were:
Betty Baxter - Olympic Volleyball Captain,
Mark Tewksbury - Olympic Swimming Gold Medalist,
Mark Leduc - Olympic Boxing Silver Medalist,
Savoy Howe - Provincial Women's Boxing Champion.

Sports Heroes was designed to stimulate, educate and encourage broad community dialogue about lesbian, gay and bisexual youth and sports. More specifically, the forum served to address the issue of homophobia in mainstream sports and to encourage the adult lesbian and gay community to begin to make space for queer youth in their sports leagues. The thought-provoking and powerful evening generated extraordinary amounts of media attention, bringing the issue of sports and homophobia out into the open.