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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
An clive gby team aimed at gay and bisexual men has enjoyed 'overwhelmg' support sce formg Leeds. * gay rugby team leeds *
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. "Rob timat that the majory of the squad intify as gay or bisexual, although there are also several heterosexual squad tra at Roundhay Park"Some of them had played at school, but had never really found a group they felt part of later on. Historilly, some people have had negative experienc around sport and PE, such as homophobic bullyg.
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 *
"The team also acts as a social opportuny for young gay men away om the bar scene. At the unis, there may be gay and straight guys who want to play gby away om the stunt scene, and who maybe aren't keen on the drkg culture. "Future plans clu enterg a league, playg ternatnal gay gby petns and arrangg more lol iendli.
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WORLD'S FIRST GAY GBY CLUB THAT BEAT THE BIGOTS BY TACKLG HOMOPHOBIA GETS S OWN FILM
Kgs Cross Steelers, named after the NFL si om Ptsburgh, is the first gay gby club the world, and a new documentary film, Steelers, follows their journey om trma to triumph. * gay rugby team leeds *
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. The club was found 1995 as the first gay Rugby club by Tory Lord, Robert HaywardBack the 1980s at the height of the Aids panmic, he sat silent rage on the Commons backbench as fellow Conservative MPs dulged anti-gay rhetoric.
HEARD OF THE STEELERS? NO, NOT THEM, THE GAY GBY TEAM OM LONDON
He felt ‘eply unfortable’, not least bee he was stgglg to e to terms wh his own electns expert who has advised Boris Johnson, Thera May and David Cameron, Hayward didn’t clare he was gay until a few years after he left the Commons was around the time he got volved wh the gby film featur players such as Drew McDowell, whose off-pch alter ego is drag queen ‘Drewalic’ member Eammon Ashton-Atkson – a TV news reporter – said he was spired to make the film after Atralian gby player Israel Fol said 2019 that ‘hell awas’ homosexuals. And Hayward, 71, said opponents also shout homophobic tnts on the pch.
LESTER’S NICK MCCARTHY OUT AS GAY AND THANKS CLUB FOR THEIR SUPPORT
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Pictured: Players for the Kg's Cross Steelers actn agast a rival team Club member Eammon Ashton-Atkson – a TV news reporter – said he was spired to make the film after Atralian gby player Israel Fol said 2019 that ‘hell awas’ homosexuals.