This issue we are putting the ‘out’ in outdoor swimming and speaking to LGBTQ+ swimmers (myself included) about their acceptance in the outdoor community and the importance of LGBTQ+ sports clubs and events in encouraging more people to get active in the outdoors. Throughout this issue we meet some wonderful humans who are helping make outdoor swimming, and the outdoors in general, a more diverse community: the lido volunteers working towards making their pools more accessible to disabled swimmers; the transgender swimmer swimming every day of the year; and the writer aiming to get more women accessing the outdoors.