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Contents:
- MEET THE GAY-IENDLY LEEDS GBY TEAM BREAKG NEW GROUND
- LIST | 5 GAY RUGBY STARS WHO ARE OUT AND PROUD
- WORLD'S FIRST GAY GBY CLUB THAT BEAT THE BIGOTS BY TACKLG HOMOPHOBIA GETS S OWN FILM
- HEARD OF THE STEELERS? NO, NOT THEM, THE GAY GBY TEAM OM LONDON
- LESTER’S NICK MCCARTHY OUT AS GAY AND THANKS CLUB FOR THEIR SUPPORT
MEET THE GAY-IENDLY LEEDS GBY TEAM BREAKG NEW GROUND
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What started as a get together Roundhay Park has grown to a club that has over 70 members and has gone on to reprent not jt Leeds, but Yorkshire at IGR Internatnal Gay Rugby world tournament, The Bgham Cup Amsterdam June 2018. NewsAn clive gby team aimed at gay and bisexual men has enjoyed 'overwhelmg' support sce formg Hunters were only set up November, but now have a squad of over 30 players and are preparg for their first gby unn team tra at Roundhay Park and want to offer experienced players the chance to try the sport a iendly and supportive environment, whatever their sexual project was set up by Rob Wilson, who works on clive sports iativ for Leeds Cy squad tra at Roundhay Park"We n different social events to enurage people to get volved sports, and there were que a lot of people g up to me and sayg they wanted to take part gby.
LIST | 5 GAY RUGBY STARS WHO ARE OUT AND PROUD
Tory Lord Hayward is ed to puzzled looks when people learn that he is founr and chairman of Kgs Cross Steelers - a gay gby team - who tell their story a new film. * gay rugby team leeds *
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WORLD'S FIRST GAY GBY CLUB THAT BEAT THE BIGOTS BY TACKLG HOMOPHOBIA GETS S OWN FILM
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HEARD OF THE STEELERS? NO, NOT THEM, THE GAY GBY TEAM OM LONDON
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LESTER’S NICK MCCARTHY OUT AS GAY AND THANKS CLUB FOR THEIR SUPPORT
The Welshman is also a TV personaly and a voted activist for the LGBT e, wng “Gay Sports Personaly of the De” at the Stonewall awards ceremony London back 2015. World's first gay gby club that beat the bigots by tacklg homophobia gets s own film 25 years after beg found by Tory peer Lord HaywardKg's Cross Steelers were first set up 1995 at the world's first gay gby clubThe team was found by Tory Lord Hayward, who is also s chairmanA documentary lled 'Steelers' is set to screen at the Glasgow film ftival A team member - a TV news reporter – said he was spired to make the film after Atralian gby player Israel Fol said 2019 that ‘hell awas’ homosexuals Updated: 08:32 BST, 20 Febary 2021. When the world’s first gay gby club was set up 1995, Rob Hayward had a stock reply to wags who asked if his team played pk shirts.
For a llectn of gay men we agreed remarkably quickly on our lours – midnight blue and emerald green! ’Tory Lord Hayward is ed to puzzled looks when people learn that he is founr and chairman of Kgs Cross Steelers – a gay gby team – who tell their story a new film.