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There are many great gay profsnal gby players and personali. The players have bee a bean of light bee they overme the stereotyp.

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VANUVER'S FIRST GAY AND CLIVE GBY TEAM IS BACK

Canada's first gay and clive gby unn club first found 2001. After beg dormant for a number of years, the Rogu are back. * gay rugby canada *

The Bgham Cup, also known as the Mark Kendall Bgham Memorial Tournament, is the biennial world champnships of gay and clive gby. That same year the Wolv also beme a member of the Internatnal Gay Rugby, an anizatn signed to elimate discrimatn of sexual orientatns or intifitn the sport by providg members of the 2SLGBTQ+ muny a chance to play gby an clive gby club. Brish ColumbiaThe Vanuver Rogu, first active 2002 to 2008, is back wh the hope of creatg a safe environment for people of different sexual orientatns and genr inti to enjoy the ntact Vanuver Rogu is recg players for a tournament next summerThe Vanuver Rogu gay and clive gby unn club, first found 2001, was revived early this year.

(Ty Mart)Brennan Bastyovanszky, 42, has played gby sce childhood and lov the sport — except for what he scrib as the prevalence of homophobic language wh mastream clubs.

‘IT WAS A SUCCS BEFORE WE STEPPED ON THE PCH’: HOW OTTAWA’S BGHAM CUP LIVERED FOR THE GAY AND CLIVE GBY MUNY

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So early this year, he helped revive the Vanuver Rogu, a gby club clive to players of all sexual orientatns and genr club secretary says he has heard a lot of homophobic language om teammat durg his 25 years as a gby player  B. And the queer muny would have reprentatn the Bgham Cup, the world champnships of gay and clive gby, which will take place Ottawa next year. "There were even ocsns when I was nonted, physilly threatened by people on my own team, " said Bastyovanszky, who later joed the Sydney Convicts, which scrib self as the first gay and clive gby unn club Atralia.

INCLIVE RUGBY: HOW CANADA'S GAY RUGBY CLUBS OPEN THE SPORT TO ALL

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Bastyovanszky revived the team after returng to Vanuver earlier this realized that the Bgham Cup, the biennial world champnships of gay and clive gby, was beg held Ottawa next Augt — and there wasn't a team reprentg the provce.

"Canada a 'laggard' on homophobia sports, studi showOpnUnlike European sport, anti-gay sentiment still ns ep North Amerin leagu: Michael CorenLISTEN︱Brennan Bastyovanszky on why he revived the Vanuver Rogu gby club:Wh fil om The Early Edn. (Bgham Cup/Amanda Tom)The world's largt amatr gby tournament has s openg ceremoni Ottawa Wednday, wh more than 1, 700 players om 20 untri sets this biennial tournament — the Bgham Cup — apart om others, is the fact has bee a world cup of gay and clive is the tourney's 10th anniversary, and is beg held Canada for the first time.

In 2018, the Ottawa Wolv, Ottawa's only gay and clive team, flew to Amsterdam to prent our bid to get the hostg rights and after that we set about the bs of puttg the tournament on. "We're gog to gather the top sport rearchers, amics, legal mds and also lears om the sport Canada and we have ternatnal atten om everywhere to addrs and tackle transphobia and homophobia the sport, " Laberge said.

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Organised by Internatnal Gay Rugby (IGR) and now among the largt amatr gby unn tournaments the world, the event’s two- history has seen pch up glamoro lotns rangg om London and New York Cy to Sydney and Amsterdam.

ALL GAY GBY CLUB TAK THE ADVANTAGE

This year, the petn was held Ottawa, which self boasts a vibrant LGBTQ+ muny and is also home to the Ottawa Wolv, one of the only gay and clive gby clubs Canada that lays claim to both a men’s and women’s si. Bgham himself played for San Francis Fog, the first gay and clive gby club on Ameri’s wt ast, and helped to tablish New York’s Gotham Knights.

DISMANTLG STEREOTYP: 10 INSPIRG GAY RUGBY PLAYERS AND PERSONALI

Acrdg to Amanda Mark, one of Bgham’s clost iends who travelled to Ottawa om Atralia for this year’s tournament and is also puttg her name to a women’s equivalent of the petn, he would have been “really thrilled” to see what the event has bee and how ntu to challenge stereotyp around what means to be gay.

GAY GBY'S BGHAM CUP TOURNAMENT TO BE HELD OTTAWA 2020

The Bgham Cup might be a hub of acceptance and clivy but the same nnot always be said of sport at large, where sual homophobia remas an issue at both a grassroots and profsnal level. Speakg about his own experience, Laberge says that upon realisg he was gay as a teenager he no longer felt team sports was an environment where he “uld be or belong”.

OTTAWA WOLV TO HOST TERNATNAL GAY GBY TOURNAMENT 2020

There also would have been global attentn on the Universy of Ottawa’s Ftx Hall, which durg Bgham Cup week hosted an ternatnal summ on transphobia and homophobia sport, a pertent subject at a time when anisatns such as World Rugby and the Internatnal Rugby League (IRL) have troduced transgenr guil that some wh the LGBT muny have cricised for beg discrimatory.

At a time when homophobia and hypermasculy still n rampant throughout men’s sports, clive gby clubs are settg a shg example of how teams n enurage participatn among those who have tradnally been unr-reprented across the game.

Inclive clubs are muny lears, workg to elimate anti-lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer/qutng (LGBTQ) sentiment at the grassroots level, and provi opportuni for members of the LGBTQ muny to pete sports through tolerant and acceptg teams.

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