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Contents:

• DIRECTOR OF ACCLAIMED GAY GBY FILM IN OM THE SI ON MUD, SWEAT AND ‘IDT’ HOMOPHOB
• STEELERS: HOW ANTI-GAY ROW SPIRED GBY FILM
• HOW AMAZON PRIME’S GAY GBY DOCUMENTARY STEELERS PLETELY FLIPS THE DISURSE OF MASTREAM LGBTQ+ STORI
• ALEXANR LLN ON GAY GBY FILM IN FROM THE SI: ‘I SAW A LOT OF MYSELF ’
• ACTOR ALEXANR LLN ON GAY GBY FILM IN FROM THE SI: ‘70% OF THE ST WERE OF THE MUNY’
• WORLD'S FIRST GAY GBY CLUB THAT BEAT THE BIGOTS BY TACKLG HOMOPHOBIA GETS S OWN FILM
• GAY GBY DRAMA ‘IN FROM THE SI’ SR UK THEATRIL AL (EXCLIVE)
• 6 SENTIAL LGBT+ FILMS TO SEE AT BFI FLARE FTIVAL, OM GAY GBY ROMANCE TO TRANS G-OF-AGE
• JOG THE WORLD'S FIRST GAY GBY TEAM CHANGED MY LIFE. SO I MA A FILM ABOUT
• ‘FDG THIS MUNY IS HUGE’: STORY OF WORLD’S FIRST GAY GBY TEAM PTURED ON FILM
• TAKE A SNEAK PEEK AT GAY GBY FILM, ‘IN FROM THE SI’
• IN FROM THE SI: THE GAY RUGBY DRAMA FLICK COMG TO A SCREEN NEAR YOU
• LESTER’S NICK MCCARTHY OUT AS GAY AND THANKS CLUB FOR THEIR SUPPORT

DIRECTOR OF ACCLAIMED GAY GBY FILM IN OM THE SI ON MUD, SWEAT AND ‘IDT’ HOMOPHOB

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Read allFollowg a dnken enunter, two equally attached men om a sh strapped and divid gay gby club unwtgly sleepwalk to an adultero affair but mt nceal their growg feelgs or risk stroyg the club they love. Followg a dnken enunter, two equally attached men om a sh strapped and divid gay gby club unwtgly sleepwalk to an adultero affair but mt nceal their growg feelgs or risk stroyg the club they productn, box office & pany Vios1More like thisReview A film sperate need for a cent scriptI was warned this wasn't great but I wasn't expectg to be as bad as was. I thk there are a lot of ‘g out’ and ‘homophobia’ films and I was terted gettg beyond that.

My -wrer, Adam Silver, and I said we didn’t want to make a film like that – there’ll be no g out or homophobia. It don’t e om homophobia or g out, ’s a film about monogamy, adultery and open relatnships which aren’t explored very much other gay films.

STEELERS: HOW ANTI-GAY ROW SPIRED GBY FILM

Why n’t somethg physil be off-lims to gay men?

HOW AMAZON PRIME’S GAY GBY DOCUMENTARY STEELERS PLETELY FLIPS THE DISURSE OF MASTREAM LGBTQ+ STORI

It really boils down to a sense of muny and belongg that I feel a lot of gay men haven’t had or don’t get bee we don’t have as many muny spac the morn world anymore. Team sports are somethg a lot of gay men probably didn’t get to experience at school bee wasn’t for them. Do you have any thoughts on Israel Fol, Atralia’s once star gby player whose ntract was termated for tellg “homosexuals” that “Hell awas” them?

ALEXANR LLN ON GAY GBY FILM IN FROM THE SI: ‘I SAW A LOT OF MYSELF ’

Israel Fol posted anti-gay msag on social media.

So many lol clubs happen to have a large proportn of gay players which is a ttament to the sport. I’d say to other sports, if you want to miss out on all that talent to hold homophobic ias, you need to set your egos asi.

Joy, celebratn, acceptance – Steelers has a place for everyone (Picture: Amazon Prime)The Kg’s Cross Steelers may not be a team on your radar, whether you’re gay or straight, but few clubs will have ma que the impact of the self-ma gby teamed found a north London pub 25 years ago. The film follows the Steelers as they make the biannual pilgrimage to the Bgham World Cup where, 25 years after the Steelers was formed, a further 60 clubs worldwi followed s lead, and now every two years they e together and battle out – savagely – the biggt gay gby tournament the world. As turned out, he soon found a new fay – a team of gay men om all walks of LGBTQ+ life wh a shared love, passn, and talent for the sport which many gay men have otherwise been exclud om.

ACTOR ALEXANR LLN ON GAY GBY FILM IN FROM THE SI: ‘70% OF THE ST WERE OF THE MUNY’

The Kgs Cross Steelers attempt to w the gay gby world cup (Picture: Kgs Cross Steeelrs)‘I was lookg around the club and I realised wasn’t jt me who had felt this impact, was every sgle player. I was tryg to work out what was about gay gby that was so special and a benef for all the queer people – mental health benefs om sport and beg able to form a relatnship away om dgs and alhol as well as reclaimg that place on the sportg pch where we’re told we don’t belong. So often, when gay people are seen on screen, our stori are tragic – ath, disease, margalisatn, abe.

WORLD'S FIRST GAY GBY CLUB THAT BEAT THE BIGOTS BY TACKLG HOMOPHOBIA GETS S OWN FILM

Simon is a player who me out as gay his early 30s and Steelers talks ankly about his prsn after sperately supprsg his sexualy, clgg on to hope that wouldn’t matter. He was more than a gay man, and uld clg onto the rt of him bee surely that would be enough and life, at the very least, would be bearable. Simon didn’t e out until his early 30s and his urage is celebrated Steelers (Picture: Kgs Cross Steelers)Eventually, he told his fay and iends he was gay but was jilted when he told a bt iend, who was straight, he was love wh him.

If they ronate, not only wh gay viewers but all sexuali and genrs, and if people n see hope and see you belong to somethg then the story has much more of an impact than beg a niche gay film. A msage perhaps particularly applible to gay men.

GAY GBY DRAMA ‘IN FROM THE SI’ SR UK THEATRIL AL (EXCLIVE)

That’s the treat store for Alexanr Lln, whose new movie In From the Si, examg the liv of gay gby players on and off the pch, is screeng at this month’s BFI Flare: London LGBTQI+ Film Ftival on 26 and 27 March before a wi release later this year.

Some guys were bisexual, some were gay, some straight – was a meltg pot of different experienc, and no judgement. 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 Published: 00:48 BST, 20 Febary 2021 | 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.

6 SENTIAL LGBT+ FILMS TO SEE AT BFI FLARE FTIVAL, OM GAY GBY ROMANCE TO TRANS G-OF-AGE

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. 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.

JOG THE WORLD'S FIRST GAY GBY TEAM CHANGED MY LIFE. SO I MA A FILM ABOUT

But while other teams lim drkg, Steelers n e gay datg app Grdr for only a limed time to mata ‘disciple’. 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.

‘FDG THIS MUNY IS HUGE’: STORY OF WORLD’S FIRST GAY GBY TEAM PTURED ON FILM

Hayward retorted: ‘If they’re gog to be racist, what will they do when they fd out we’re all gay?

They were terrified of ‘beg the first ever club to lose to a gay team’.

Hayward said that as the upg film shows, the club has been a lifele for many gay peopleThe Steelers are now a faiar part of the London gby scene. Hayward said that as the film shows, the club has been a lifele for many gay people. The melancholic bgraphil drama, directed by acclaimed Brish filmmaker Terence Davi, don’t shy away om Sassoon’s queerns as hon on the bat veteran’s gay love affairs wh Ivor Novello (Jeremy Irve), Stephen Tennant (Calam Lynch) and Glen Byam Shaw (Tom Blyth), as well as his nversn to Catholicism.

TAKE A SNEAK PEEK AT GAY GBY FILM, ‘IN FROM THE SI’

As he told GAY TIMES earlier this year, “I’ve been searchg for that remptn, and I haven’t found eher. The first gay romantic edy om a major stud, Bros marked a historic moment for queer cema wh s prcipal LGBTQ+ st – even the heterosexual rol were played by actors of the LGBTQ+ experience. Followg Billy Eichner’s character Bobby Lieber as a podster and rad show host as he falls for a ‘masc4masc’ gay (played by Le Macfarlane), Bros is one of the most outrageoly funny edi of the year and is, thankfully, not straightwashed to appeal to cis-het dienc.

From Bobby snappg a pic of his butt for a Grdr hook-up (who subsequently blocks him) to the two lead characters brgg the foot fetish dtry to the big screen, Bros is g-g-g-gay.

IN FROM THE SI: THE GAY RUGBY DRAMA FLICK COMG TO A SCREEN NEAR YOU

Watchg Léo (En Dambre) distance himself om Rémi (Gtav Waele) as a rult of the homophobia of others is an excciatg watch, and the Belgian drama’s swch om buddy film to one about teen suici is equally as vastatg.

An homage to teen classics like Cel Intentns, Jawbreaker and Mean Girls, Netflix’s black edy Do Revenge immediately ptured the attentn of viewers – particularly Gay Twter – thanks to the bonkers twists, 90s-spired athetic and sapphic chemistry between leads Caa Mens and Maya Hawke. Hailed by crics and viewers as an stant queer classic, Fire Island follows two bt iends (Joel Kim Booster and Bowen Yang) as they embark on their annual weeklong vatn to the tular gay hotspot.

LESTER’S NICK MCCARTHY OUT AS GAY AND THANKS CLUB FOR THEIR SUPPORT

We received the gay gby drama we need and serve thanks to a Kickstarter mpaign and the visn of director/wrer and former gby ach Matt Carter. In From The Si stars Emmerdale’s Alexanr Lln as Mark, an experienced new rec on the B team at a gay gby club who has a dnken enunter wh Warren (Alexanr Kg), the star player on the A team. Forbidn romance asi, In From The Si simply picts the liv of people who play gby together and jt-so happen to be gay.

No homophobia. In one of the year’s most pellg and raw performanc, Jeremy Pope stars The Inspectn as a Black gay man who be homels after his homophobic mother (played to perfectn by Gabrielle Unn) disowns him. While the narrative feels faiar – a troubled person enters the ary, is celly targeted by a senr soldier, nsirs leavg but persever and feels more plete as a rult – The Inspectn’s emphasis on the Black LGBTQ+ experience and years of stutnalised homophobia the ary distcts self om others the same genre.

FIND YOUR NEAREST GAY & INCLUSIVE RUGBY CLUB. Wh lots of new Gay & Inclive Rugby Clubs settg up across the globe each year, ’s more and more likely that you live close enough to one to get volved wh and enjoy all kds of gby – regardls of your genr, sexualy, ethnicy, relign, size or gby the Map Search below or scroll through the Global Club Listgs lower down this page to fd an IGR club. 'In om the Si' is the story of an adultero affair between two members of a fictnal South London gay gby club.