Brisbane Htlers RUFC - Internatnal Gay Rugby

Contents:

• MEET THE ASIE GAY RUGBY TEAMS COMPETG IN THE 2022 BGHAM CUP IN CANADA
• BRISBANE GBY TEAM WS GAY EQUIVALENT OF BLEDISLOE CUP
• 'GAY RUGBY', BY SIMON COPLAND
• INTRODUCG THE ALAI UNIVERSY SHARKS, SOUTH ATRALIA’S FIRST GAY AND CLIVE GBY TEAM
• RUGBY ATRALIA STRIK ALLIANCE WH ATRALIA'S GAY AND CLIVE RUGBY CLUBS
• COMMENT: UNED BY GBY, BUT A LONG ROAD AHEAD TO END DISCRIMATNTHE BGHAM CUP, THE “WORLD CUP OF GAY GBY” IS A STEP THE RIGHT DIRECTN BUT MORE NEEDS TO BE DONE TO UNTER HYPER-MASCULE AND HETERONORMATIVE ATTUS TO SPORT.ATRALIA'S FIRST GAY GBY TEAM, THE SYDNEY CONVICTS ( BLUE) PLAYG ANOTHER GBY UNN TEAM. (AAP)THIS WEEKEND, PETORS WILL E TO SYDNEY TO PETE THE BGHAM CUP - THE MEN’S RUGBY UNN GAY WORLD CUP.SPORT IS ONE OF THE MOST QUEERPHOBIC PLAC OUR SOCIETY. A RECENT SURVEY SHOWED THAT A HUGE MAJORY OF PARTICIPANTS - BOTH GAY AND STRAIGHT - HAD HEARD OR EXPERIENCED HOMOPHOBIC SULTS SPORTG PETNS. THIS WAS EPOMISED RECENTLY WHEN A CHANNEL 7 MENTATOR LLED AN AFL PLAYER A ‘BIG POOFTER’ ON LIVE TELEVISN.WH THIS NTEXT MD, THE BGHAM CUP IS AN EXTREMELY IMPORTANT EVENT FOR ATRALIA. IT’S ALSO ONE THAT HAS PUNCHED WELL ABOVE S WEIGHT. IN THE LEAD UP TO THE CUP, THE AFL, NRL, ARU, CRICKET ATRALIA AND THE FOOTBALL FERATN OF ATRALIAN ANNOUNCED THE TABLISHMENT OF A JOT ANTI-HOMOPHOBIA AND CLN AMEWORK FOR ATRALIAN SPORTS. THIS IS THE MOST PREHENSIVE ANTI-HOMOPHOBIC POLICY ATRALIAN SPORTG HISTORY AND ONE THAT WILL HOPEFULLY HAVE SIGNIFINT IMPACTS ON THE WAY SEXUALY IS TREATED WH OUR S. WHILE THIS POLICY IS SENTIAL, ’S IMPORTANT WE DON’T DOWNPLAY THE IMPORTANCE OF THE CUP SELF. MANY MIGHT SEE AN ULTIMATE GOAL WHERE HOMOPHOBIA IS ERADITED OM OUR MASTREAM PETNS SO QUEER SPORTG EVENTS NO LONGER NEED TO EXIST, BUT THAT WOULD BE A MISTAKE.  I JOED THE GAY-IENDLY GBY TEAM THE BRISBANE HTLERS LAST YEAR - SICK OF HOMOPHOBIA, BOTH OVERT AND SUAL - THE OTHER TEAMS I HAD BEEN PART OF. WHILST THE HTLERS GAVE ME A NEW MUNY, THEY HAVE ALSO DRAMATILLY CHANGED MY IAS OF SPORT.WHEN WE THK OF SPORT THERE ARE PARTICULAR STEREOTYP THAT GO WH . IN PARTICULAR, OUR MASTREAM SPORTS ARE SEEN AS HYPER-MASCULE. IT’S THE SAME FOR BOTH MEN, AND WOMEN - YOU’VE GOT TO BE A BLOKEY MAN OR A BUTCH WOMAN TO BE ABLE TO PETE (AND IF YOU’RE NOT A BUTCH WOMAN YOUR ONLY ROLE IS TO BE OBJECTIFIED BY MEN). SPORT IS A WORLD THAT PLAC MASCULY AS THE IAL TRA FOR THE PETOR - AND EXPECTS EVERYONE TO F THAT MOULD.BUT THE HTLERS THAT ISN’T THE SE. IT’S NOT JT THAT HOMOPHOBIA ISN’T AN ISSUE - THE STEREOTYP DISAPPEAR AS WELL. OUR GAY MEN N BE BUTCH AND OUR STRAIGHT MEN N BE MP AND NO ONE QUTNS . THIS REPRENTS THE SORT OF GOAL WE SHOULD BE AIMG FOR. IT’S NOT JT ABOUT ELIMATG HOMOPHOBIA, BUT ALLOWG PEOPLE TO BE EE THEIR PERSONALY. THAT’S NOT TO SAY THAT BGHAM IS THE BE ALL AND END ALL. DPE HOSTG A WOMEN’S EXHIBN MATCH THIS YEAR, BGHAM IS STILL ALL-MALE - LEAVG WOMEN OUT OF THE PICTURE. DISCSN ABOUT ISSU RELATED TO TRANS* AND TERSEX PARTICIPANTS HAS ALSO LARGELY BEEN MISSG.“SPORT IS A WORLD THAT PLAC MASCULY AS THE IAL TRA FOR THE PETOR - AND EXPECTS EVERYONE TO F THAT MOULD.”BUT BGHAM - AND OTHER TOURNAMENTS LIKE THE ‘OUTGAM’ - REPRENT SOMETHG VERY IMPORTANT. THEY REPRENT THE POTENTIAL CREATN OF NEW SPORTG STUTNS THAT OUR EXISTG ON SHOULD BE EMULATG - ON THAT EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE BASED SEXUAL POLICS REMOVE SEXUALY OM THE EQUATN. ON THAT DON’T JT CHALLENGE HOMOPHOBIA SPORT, BUT ALSO THE ACCEPTED NORM OF HETEROSEXUALY - AND ALL OF THE STEREOTYP AND PREJUDIC THAT E WH THAT.UNFORTUNATELY, WHILE THE NEW ANTI-HOMOPHOBIA POLICI OUR MA S ARE REALLY IMPORTANT, I QUTN WHETHER THEY N GO THIS FAR. I WORRY THEY ULD END UP FORCG QUEER PEOPLE TO THE STRAIGHT SPORTG MOULD - ONE THAT IS STILL HYPER-MASCULE AND STILL EXTREMELY SEXIST. INSTEAD OF GIVG MORE PEOPLE ACCS TO THE ‘NORM’, I FEEL WE SHOULD GET RID OF THE THE IA OR THE NORM THE FIRST PLACE.  A LOT OF PROGRS HAS BEEN MA CHALLENGG HOMOPHOBIA SPORT THIS YEAR. BUT A LOT MORE N BE DONE. LOOKG TOWARDS TOURNAMENTS LIKE THE BGHAM CUP IS A GREAT PLACE TO START.SIMON COPLAND IS A EELANCE WRER AND CLIMATE MPAIGNER. HE IS A REGULAR LUMNIST FOR THE SYDNEY STAR OBSERVER AND BLOGS AT THE MOONBAT.SHARE4 M READPUBLISHED 27 AUGT 2014 11:55AMUPDATED 27 AUGT 2014 12:02PMBY SIMON COPLANDSHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOU
• INTERNATNAL GAY RUGBY

MEET THE ASIE GAY RUGBY TEAMS COMPETG IN THE 2022 BGHAM CUP IN CANADA

The Brisbane Htlers is Brisbane’s premier gay & clive gby unn team and is lookg for players and anyone who wants to be volved. The Brisbane Htlers began 2004 as Brisbane’s premier gay & clive gby team. Febary 7, 2022 @ 6:30 pm AEST The Brisbane Htlers is Brisbane’s premier gay & clive gby unn team and is lookg for players and anyone who wants to be volved.

**The Brisbane Htlers began 2004 as Brisbane’s premier gay & clive gby team. Norths is home to several associated clubs and teams cludg the Norths Junr Rugby Club, the Btards Eagl for over 35 year old players, GgerCloud Foundatn's Modified Rugby Program for young people wh Autism or learng and perceptual disabili, Wavell Heights OzTag and the Brisbane Htlers, Brisbane’s premier gay & clive gby unn team who are currently ranked 4th  the world at the 2022 Bgham Cup. I play for the Brisbane htlers – Brisbane’s gay and clive gby team.

We are a social gby club playg a lol Brisbane petn as well as biennial domtic and ternatnal gay gby ps (Purchas and Bgham Cups). Everyone is wele whether gay, straight or otherwise, all skills levels cludg absolute begners.

BRISBANE GBY TEAM WS GAY EQUIVALENT OF BLEDISLOE CUP

The 10th Bgham Cup, known as the Gay Rugby World Cup, is schled to start later this week Ottawa, Canada. Atralia’s favoure gay gby team, Sydney Convicts are the current holrs of the Bgham Cup. A post shared by Melbourne Chargers (@melbournechargers)The other Atralian gay gby teams that are participatg the tournament clu the Melbourne Chargers, the Brisbane Htlers and the Perth Rams.

44pmBrisbane’s bt gay gby players have beaten a New Zealand gay gby club on their way to claim what is known as the gay equivalent of the Bledisloe Cup this weekend. However, the Purchas Cup fal on Saturday, gay gby club the Brisbane Htlers feated the Sydney Convicts 22-10, after earlier beatg the New Zealand Falns.

Brisbane Htlers w gay gby's equivalent of the Bledisloe Cup, the Purchas Cup Purchas Cup is the annual trans-Tasman gay gby champnship and teams om Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and New Zealand pete to take the trophy each clubs are the Melbourne Chargers – the reigng gay gby world champns – the Sydney Convicts Rugby Club, the Brisbane Htlers and the New Zealand Falns gby football acceptg the Purchas Cup on Saturday night, Brisbane Htlers pta JB Co said the gay gby petn was now very strong and all Purchas Cup players wanted the standard to keep improvg. ”The 2017 Purchas Cup tournament was supported by Victorian Rugby Unn and the Melbourne Unirns gby Atralian Rugby Unn signed a memorandum of unrstandg 2014 to m to eraditn of homophobia sport alongsi Cricket Atralia, the Football Feratn of Atralia, AFL and tournament is named after Andrew “Fuzz” Purchas OAM, who is the -founr of the Sydney Convicts Atralia-New Zealand Purchas Cup is ed a precursor for selectn the biennial gay gby unn team, which pet the Bgham Cup.

'GAY RUGBY', BY SIMON COPLAND

A Brisbane Htlers player mak a break the Purchas Cup Dale NapierThe cup honours Amerin gay gby star Mark Bgham, who one of the passengers who fought back agast hijackers on board Ameri’s Uned flight 93 the September 11, 2001, a gay man and regular gby player, Bgham played for San Francis Fog and also helped set up the Gotham Knights New York, the Bgham Cup webse Bgham and all on the flight tragilly lost their liv when the plane crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, is wily regnised that through the actns of those brave dividuals on board, the plane did not ntue on to s tend 2016, the Melbourne Charg won the Bgham Cup next tournament will be held Amsterdam 2018. I play Brisbane’s only gay-iendly gby unn team, the Brisbane Htlers.

INTRODUCG THE ALAI UNIVERSY SHARKS, SOUTH ATRALIA’S FIRST GAY AND CLIVE GBY TEAM

” Lookg back, I’m pretty sure what I meant is “basketball is full of homophob. It was my turn of the phase that many gay guys go through, where one aims for the perfectly sculpted body (I have fally accepted my fate of beg known as a ‘cub’—a young, hairy and solidly-built guy).

Although, whilst I n’t remember any experienc of open homophobia, the heteronormativy—the assumptn of straightns—was always prent. Movg to Queensland after spendg all my life Canberra that issue beme much more proment; playg a men’s Frisbee team up north, I noticed more open homophobia. The homophobia was jt cintal, not vic.

I’d always been terted gby, and after readg about the Sydney Convicts—Sydney’s gay-iendly team—I thought I’d see if Brisbane had an equivalent. The Brisbane Htlers reformed 2012 after a hiat, and after playg our first real game the 2012 Purchas Cup—an annual gay gby tournament—we entered a Brisbane petn and set ourselv for the season.

RUGBY ATRALIA STRIK ALLIANCE WH ATRALIA'S GAY AND CLIVE RUGBY CLUBS

Our team—a mixture of gays and straights—played a total of fourteen gam, wng two and losg twelve, and then went on to e send behd the Sydney Convicts the 2013 Purchas Cup.

If you were to try and fd the realm where homophobia is most persistent Wtern culture today, sport would have to be pretty high up the list. In both profsnal and amatr leagu, homophobia remas a ser issue. In 2010, former AFL player Jason Akermanis ed a storm when he wrote an opn piece llg on any gay AFL players to stay the closet.

The piece me after persistent mours (on that ntue today) that gay players the league were beg gently enuraged to e out (none have yet). Akermanis argued that an out gay player would still make others unfortable, and uld “break the fabric of the club. Last year St Kilda AFL player Stephen Milne was fed $3, 000 for llg a Collgwood player a “fuckg homo”.

COMMENT: UNED BY GBY, BUT A LONG ROAD AHEAD TO END DISCRIMATNTHE BGHAM CUP, THE “WORLD CUP OF GAY GBY” IS A STEP THE RIGHT DIRECTN BUT MORE NEEDS TO BE DONE TO UNTER HYPER-MASCULE AND HETERONORMATIVE ATTUS TO SPORT.ATRALIA'S FIRST GAY GBY TEAM, THE SYDNEY CONVICTS ( BLUE) PLAYG ANOTHER GBY UNN TEAM. (AAP)THIS WEEKEND, PETORS WILL E TO SYDNEY TO PETE THE BGHAM CUP - THE MEN’S RUGBY UNN GAY WORLD CUP.SPORT IS ONE OF THE MOST QUEERPHOBIC PLAC OUR SOCIETY. A RECENT SURVEY SHOWED THAT A HUGE MAJORY OF PARTICIPANTS - BOTH GAY AND STRAIGHT - HAD HEARD OR EXPERIENCED HOMOPHOBIC SULTS SPORTG PETNS. THIS WAS EPOMISED RECENTLY WHEN A CHANNEL 7 MENTATOR LLED AN AFL PLAYER A ‘BIG POOFTER’ ON LIVE TELEVISN.WH THIS NTEXT MD, THE BGHAM CUP IS AN EXTREMELY IMPORTANT EVENT FOR ATRALIA. IT’S ALSO ONE THAT HAS PUNCHED WELL ABOVE S WEIGHT. IN THE LEAD UP TO THE CUP, THE AFL, NRL, ARU, CRICKET ATRALIA AND THE FOOTBALL FERATN OF ATRALIAN ANNOUNCED THE TABLISHMENT OF A JOT ANTI-HOMOPHOBIA AND CLN AMEWORK FOR ATRALIAN SPORTS. THIS IS THE MOST PREHENSIVE ANTI-HOMOPHOBIC POLICY ATRALIAN SPORTG HISTORY AND ONE THAT WILL HOPEFULLY HAVE SIGNIFINT IMPACTS ON THE WAY SEXUALY IS TREATED WH OUR S. WHILE THIS POLICY IS SENTIAL, ’S IMPORTANT WE DON’T DOWNPLAY THE IMPORTANCE OF THE CUP SELF. MANY MIGHT SEE AN ULTIMATE GOAL WHERE HOMOPHOBIA IS ERADITED OM OUR MASTREAM PETNS SO QUEER SPORTG EVENTS NO LONGER NEED TO EXIST, BUT THAT WOULD BE A MISTAKE.  I JOED THE GAY-IENDLY GBY TEAM THE BRISBANE HTLERS LAST YEAR - SICK OF HOMOPHOBIA, BOTH OVERT AND SUAL - THE OTHER TEAMS I HAD BEEN PART OF. WHILST THE HTLERS GAVE ME A NEW MUNY, THEY HAVE ALSO DRAMATILLY CHANGED MY IAS OF SPORT.WHEN WE THK OF SPORT THERE ARE PARTICULAR STEREOTYP THAT GO WH . IN PARTICULAR, OUR MASTREAM SPORTS ARE SEEN AS HYPER-MASCULE. IT’S THE SAME FOR BOTH MEN, AND WOMEN - YOU’VE GOT TO BE A BLOKEY MAN OR A BUTCH WOMAN TO BE ABLE TO PETE (AND IF YOU’RE NOT A BUTCH WOMAN YOUR ONLY ROLE IS TO BE OBJECTIFIED BY MEN). SPORT IS A WORLD THAT PLAC MASCULY AS THE IAL TRA FOR THE PETOR - AND EXPECTS EVERYONE TO F THAT MOULD.BUT THE HTLERS THAT ISN’T THE SE. IT’S NOT JT THAT HOMOPHOBIA ISN’T AN ISSUE - THE STEREOTYP DISAPPEAR AS WELL. OUR GAY MEN N BE BUTCH AND OUR STRAIGHT MEN N BE MP AND NO ONE QUTNS . THIS REPRENTS THE SORT OF GOAL WE SHOULD BE AIMG FOR. IT’S NOT JT ABOUT ELIMATG HOMOPHOBIA, BUT ALLOWG PEOPLE TO BE EE THEIR PERSONALY. THAT’S NOT TO SAY THAT BGHAM IS THE BE ALL AND END ALL. DPE HOSTG A WOMEN’S EXHIBN MATCH THIS YEAR, BGHAM IS STILL ALL-MALE - LEAVG WOMEN OUT OF THE PICTURE. DISCSN ABOUT ISSU RELATED TO TRANS* AND TERSEX PARTICIPANTS HAS ALSO LARGELY BEEN MISSG.“SPORT IS A WORLD THAT PLAC MASCULY AS THE IAL TRA FOR THE PETOR - AND EXPECTS EVERYONE TO F THAT MOULD.”BUT BGHAM - AND OTHER TOURNAMENTS LIKE THE ‘OUTGAM’ - REPRENT SOMETHG VERY IMPORTANT. THEY REPRENT THE POTENTIAL CREATN OF NEW SPORTG STUTNS THAT OUR EXISTG ON SHOULD BE EMULATG - ON THAT EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE BASED SEXUAL POLICS REMOVE SEXUALY OM THE EQUATN. ON THAT DON’T JT CHALLENGE HOMOPHOBIA SPORT, BUT ALSO THE ACCEPTED NORM OF HETEROSEXUALY - AND ALL OF THE STEREOTYP AND PREJUDIC THAT E WH THAT.UNFORTUNATELY, WHILE THE NEW ANTI-HOMOPHOBIA POLICI OUR MA S ARE REALLY IMPORTANT, I QUTN WHETHER THEY N GO THIS FAR. I WORRY THEY ULD END UP FORCG QUEER PEOPLE TO THE STRAIGHT SPORTG MOULD - ONE THAT IS STILL HYPER-MASCULE AND STILL EXTREMELY SEXIST. INSTEAD OF GIVG MORE PEOPLE ACCS TO THE ‘NORM’, I FEEL WE SHOULD GET RID OF THE THE IA OR THE NORM THE FIRST PLACE.  A LOT OF PROGRS HAS BEEN MA CHALLENGG HOMOPHOBIA SPORT THIS YEAR. BUT A LOT MORE N BE DONE. LOOKG TOWARDS TOURNAMENTS LIKE THE BGHAM CUP IS A GREAT PLACE TO START.SIMON COPLAND IS A EELANCE WRER AND CLIMATE MPAIGNER. HE IS A REGULAR LUMNIST FOR THE SYDNEY STAR OBSERVER AND BLOGS AT THE MOONBAT.SHARE4 M READPUBLISHED 27 AUGT 2014 11:55AMUPDATED 27 AUGT 2014 12:02PMBY SIMON COPLANDSHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOU

Reports about Coll’s outg often foced on historil homophobic stereotyp – talkg about straight players beg “fortable” the locker room wh a gay player, as if that was the biggt issue at play. When Qatar—a place where homosexualy is illegal—was award hostg duti of the 2022 Football World Cup, the advice FIFA Print Sepp Blatter provid to gay and lbian people if they wanted to attend was to “rea om sexual activy. ” The Internatnal Olympic Commtee has been no better, havg done basilly nothg rponse to anti-gay laws recently troduced Rsia, which is due to host the 2014 Wter Olympics.

Dpe the relatively low numbers of profsnal women’s sports players who are publicly out, there is an assumptn that all women who are petive sport are gay. “There are often backlash wh women’s sports to the stereotyp that all female athlet are gay.

Lren Lapp, a gold medalist softball player for the US, has talked ndidly for years about her fears of g out bee of the negative stereotypg around gay people generally and her fears of feedg the ia that all women who play sports are necsarily lbians. Often, teams or leagu retreat to what Haton has scribed as ‘an almost hypersexualized versn of femy’ orr to ‘rail homophobic assumptns’ by glommg onto sexist on.

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This was evint 2009, when the Florida State women’s basketball team created a media mpaign that featured their athlet fancy drs, heels, and makp (sce beg seen as ‘butch’ by playg sports feeds stereotypil ias about gay women our society).

In 2010, the report Come out to Play surveyed 307 gay, lbian, bisexual, and trans* sportspeople Victoria. She said, “While GLBT people are likely to experience homophobic discrimatn sport, is important to note that you don’t have to be gay, lbian or transgenr to experience … Straight people perceived as gay are jt as open to discrimatn and homophobia. You n see why 2010, Dave Zir, the sports edor at The Natn the Uned Stat, lled the men’s locker room “the fal ontier of homophobia our society.