At the end of the 2018 MLQ season, only three MLQ franchises had a Head Coach or Assistant Coach on staff that did not identify as a man/male despite 31% of the population of the league being made up of women/female and gender non-conforming, transgender or genderqueer individuals. In the fall of 2018, MLQ Human
From a strong field of bid candidates, two cities were selected in December as finalists to host the 2019 MLQ Championship. Since that announcement, the MLQ team spent all of January following up with the cities, conducting site visits and evaluating the experience each bid could bring to the league and its players. After completing