The ongog global expansn of clive gby clubs is one of the succs stori of LGBTQ+ sports and a major spiratn behd new movie 'In From The Si'. Wrer-director Matt Carter talks exclively to Sports Media LGBT+ about the film's world premiere, tellg gay stori on screen, and his gby passn...
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- DIRECTOR OF ACCLAIMED GAY GBY FILM IN OM THE SI ON MUD, SWEAT AND ‘IDT’ HOMOPHOB
- ACTOR ALEXANR LLN ON GAY GBY FILM IN FROM THE SI: ‘70% OF THE ST WERE OF THE MUNY’
- HOW AMAZON PRIME’S GAY GBY DOCUMENTARY STEELERS PLETELY FLIPS THE DISURSE OF MASTREAM LGBTQ+ STORI
- IRISH FILM ABOUT YOUNG GAY RUGBY PLAYER TO SCREEN AT NEW YORK FILM FTIVAL
- GAY GBY PLAYER TEXAS SHAR HIS PRI VIO TO SPIRE OTHERS TO LOVE THEMSELV
- STEELERS: THE WORLD'S FIRST GAY RUGBY CLUB
- TO GAY GBY, WH LOVE – MATT CARTER ON MAKG ‘IN FROM THE SI’
- A NEW DOCUMENTARY EXPLOR THE LIV AND ROMANC OF GAY RUGBY PLAYERS
- ‘FDG THIS MUNY IS HUGE’: STORY OF WORLD’S FIRST GAY GBY TEAM PTURED ON FILM
- IN FROM THE SI: THE GAY RUGBY DRAMA FLICK COMG TO A SCREEN NEAR YOU
- MOVIE ABOUT GAY RUGBY STAR CHANG LOTN
- FORMER NEW ZEALAND GBY PLAYER CAMPBELL JOHNSTONE BE FIRST ALL BLACK TO E OUT AS GAY
- JOG THE WORLD'S FIRST GAY GBY TEAM CHANGED MY LIFE. SO I MA A FILM ABOUT
- LESTER’S NICK MCCARTHY OUT AS GAY AND THANKS CLUB FOR THEIR SUPPORT
- HEARD OF THE STEELERS? NO, NOT THEM, THE GAY GBY TEAM OM LONDON
DIRECTOR OF ACCLAIMED GAY GBY FILM IN OM THE SI ON MUD, SWEAT AND ‘IDT’ HOMOPHOB
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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.
ACTOR ALEXANR LLN ON GAY GBY FILM IN FROM THE SI: ‘70% OF THE ST WERE OF THE MUNY’
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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.
Why n’t somethg physil be off-lims to gay men? 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.
HOW AMAZON PRIME’S GAY GBY DOCUMENTARY STEELERS PLETELY FLIPS THE DISURSE OF MASTREAM LGBTQ+ STORI
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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?
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.
IRISH FILM ABOUT YOUNG GAY RUGBY PLAYER TO SCREEN AT NEW YORK FILM FTIVAL
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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.
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GAY GBY PLAYER TEXAS SHAR HIS PRI VIO TO SPIRE OTHERS TO LOVE THEMSELV
Steelers: The World's First Gay Rugby Club: Directed by Eammon Ashton-Atkson. Wh Steve Brockman, Simon Dunn, Nic Evans, Simon Jon. Told through the ey of an Atralian televisn reporter who moved to the UK to pe prsn, we learn that sometim you n fd happs where you least expect. We follow the journey of 3 characters the club: the lbian ach fightg misogyny, even the gay world. The semi-pro player who spiraled to a prsn after his g out didn't go as planned. And the prop who disvered he was a drag queen through the club." data-id="ma * film gay rugby player *
Intertgly, this film was directed by gay producer Greg Berlanti (hband of gay soccer player Robbie Rogers) and stars actor John Mahoney who lived the glass closet until his 2017 ath.
It was also one of the only gay films durg s time not foced on homophobia and HIV. The straight-washed trailer above only hts at the gay storyle buried this film’s send half. When Iceland’s bad-boy football star Ottar Thor out as gay, his entire life flat quicker than a punctured soccer ball.
But when he’s given a choice to return to the pro-sports closet or start playg on a smaller gay lol team, Thor has to choose between a glamoro life or an thentic one.
STEELERS: THE WORLD'S FIRST GAY RUGBY CLUB
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The director, Michael Akers, -wrote the screenplay om terviews wh wheelchair-g gay men, and ’s one of the few films existence to al wh gay men and disabili. As Conor’s teammat prsure him to abandon Ned, Ned fds himself creasgly sick of his school’s homophobic snobbery, brgg both boys to a breakg pot that uld end their iendship. Cocky and cunng Jason — played by gay actor Rsell Tovey— seems termed to get unr A’s earnt exterr.
As a "B Squad" of gay athlet tri to overe experience and ph past rivalri to sre an elive w, a secret affair simmers among them. 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.
TO GAY GBY, WH LOVE – MATT CARTER ON MAKG ‘IN FROM THE SI’
A film about the world’s first gay gby team, the Kgs Cross Steelers, is stormg ftivals. It ptur the power of this team, wr Mark Smh * film gay rugby player *
Some guys were bisexual, some were gay, some straight – was a meltg pot of different experienc, and no judgement.
Arts dilemmas, except this time the characters are openly gay and that adds a dimensn.
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.
A NEW DOCUMENTARY EXPLOR THE LIV AND ROMANC OF GAY RUGBY PLAYERS
Former New Zealand gby player Campbell Johnstone beme the first All Black to e out publicly as gay, an terview wh TVNZ's Seven Sharp on Monday. * film gay rugby player *
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. 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.
‘FDG THIS MUNY IS HUGE’: STORY OF WORLD’S FIRST GAY GBY TEAM PTURED ON FILM
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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.
IN FROM THE SI: THE GAY RUGBY DRAMA FLICK COMG TO A SCREEN NEAR YOU
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.
MOVIE ABOUT GAY RUGBY STAR CHANG LOTN
A msage perhaps particularly applible to gay men.
FORMER NEW ZEALAND GBY PLAYER CAMPBELL JOHNSTONE BE FIRST ALL BLACK TO E OUT AS GAY
Handsome Devil, the celebrated Irish movie about a young gay gby player, to screen at Garn State Film Ftival this weekend.
JOG THE WORLD'S FIRST GAY GBY TEAM CHANGED MY LIFE. SO I MA A FILM ABOUT
John Butler’s partly tobgraphil film about a young gay gby player is about to fd a new dience, havg been selected for cln the New Jersey ftival. Ned soon to realise that Conor is gay and beg forced to nceal orr to f .
Sherlock star, Andrew Stt, also stars as a closeted gay teacher, battlg wh his cisn to keep his own inty a secret. Butler, the wrer and director, based the characters on his own experience growg up as a gay gby player.
LESTER’S NICK MCCARTHY OUT AS GAY AND THANKS CLUB FOR THEIR SUPPORT
In an terview wh GCN last year, Butler said, “I am gay, and I am really to sport, and I had difficulty rencilg those two aspects of myself growg up.
© 2018 GCN (Gay Communy News). I say the words a 16-mute vio I did for FLOSports for Pri month, talkg about my journey as a gby player and gay man.
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HEARD OF THE STEELERS? NO, NOT THEM, THE GAY GBY TEAM OM LONDON
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Drivg his ambn forwards was the enjoyment he has found gay gby as a player and a ach over several years.