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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

Cast & crewUser reviews2022Unrated2h 14mFollowg 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 feelg...

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 Good cematography, ltle substanceCematography and actg: goodMic: too much 's distractg, often not even ftg the scene and overly dramaticScript: that's where the film really lacks. 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’

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. 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.

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

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. Movi|‘In From the Si’ Review: Love and Rugby Play a Losg Game ADVERTISEMENTIn Matt Carter’s gay gby film, sports and romance smash together like two players om opposg teams. Matt Carter’s gay gby film “In From the Si” seeks to bridge the gap between the genr, wh mixed the sports half of the film, a gay gby club London mak efforts to be taken serly, spe a lack of fundg.

IRISH FILM ABOUT YOUNG GAY RUGBY PLAYER TO SCREEN AT NEW YORK FILM FTIVAL

Our list of ne feature-length LGBTQ sports documentari that provi behd-the-scen glimps of heroism and homophobia athletics was such a h, we’re followg up wh a look at feature-length narrative LGBTQ sports films.

Dennis is a 28-year-old gay man who plays on a Wt Hollywood softball team wh his close, tty pals.

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.

GAY GBY PLAYER TEXAS SHAR HIS PRI VIO TO SPIRE OTHERS TO LOVE THEMSELV

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. 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.

STEELERS: THE WORLD'S FIRST GAY RUGBY CLUB

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.

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.

TO GAY GBY, WH LOVE – MATT CARTER ON MAKG ‘IN FROM THE SI’

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. 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. 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.

A NEW DOCUMENTARY EXPLOR THE LIV AND ROMANC OF GAY RUGBY PLAYERS

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. Handsome Devil, the celebrated Irish movie about a young gay gby player, to screen at Garn State Film Ftival this weekend.

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

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. 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.

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

© 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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MOVIE ABOUT GAY RUGBY STAR CHANG LOTN

We follow the journey of 3 characters the club: the lbian ach fightg misogyny, even the gay world. BunjanMay 19, 2021Contribute to this pageSuggt an ed or add missg ntentWhat is the English language plot outle for Steelers: The World's First Gay Rugby Club (2020)?

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…. An dience member light-heartedly asked the rhetoril qutn: “Who even knew gay gby existed?!

FORMER NEW ZEALAND GBY PLAYER CAMPBELL JOHNSTONE BE FIRST ALL BLACK TO E OUT AS GAY

Drivg his ambn forwards was the enjoyment he has found gay gby as a player and a ach over several years.

The plot revolv around Mark (Alexanr Lln), makg his way through London life as a happily out young gay man, upled up wh an olr boyiend who’s often away on bs. Where go next after BFI Flare is yet to be announced, but what’s certa is that anyone nnected wh gay gby will be eager to tch , and thoroughly serv to fd broad support om outsi IGR circl too.

Gay gby keeps growg, wh new IGR clubs beg formed every year around the world. As gay men, we might feel that masculy is somethg that exists solely wh the heteronormative doma and that we’re not wele or ’s not for . Add to that, was important that we ma a cisn early on that we’d have no ‘g out’ storyl and we’d have no homophobia storyl.

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

That’s bee once you ee yourself of that, allows you to explore much more of the terpersonal relatnships that happen a group of thentic gay men – thentic the sense that they’re happy wh who they are. There are so many stori to tell beyond jt g out and beyond homophobia.

As gay men, we’ve probably all had a iend who we’ve fancied where ’s not been reciproted. In om the Si, a new film explorg the iendships and romanc of gay gby players, recently had s premiere at the BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Ftival.

For starters, gby is somethg of a niche, lolized sport, and that alone n make a eful vehicle for breakg up the trop of gay cema. “I thk there are a lot of ‘g out’ and ‘homophobia’ films and I was terted gettg beyond that.

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

“Why n’t somethg physil be off-lims to gay men? The world’s first gay gby club was formed 1995 by a group of iends drkg a pub near the statn, and has sce bee a trail-blazg force LGBTQ gby, central to a worldwi work of more than 70 clive clubs.

Now is the subject of a new documentary,, an Atralian TV producer who moved here at the end of his twenti, had an nate enthiasm for gby, but he hadn’t had much to do wh the game sce his schooldays, when he was the target of vic homophobic bullyg that peaked sports class.

HEARD OF THE STEELERS? NO, NOT THEM, THE GAY GBY TEAM OM LONDON

In 2018, the team was preparg to travel to Amsterdam to participate the Bgham Cup — a biannual ternatnal tournament named after Mark Bgham, a gay gby player who saved liv by helpg to stop Uned Flight 93 om reachg s target durg the 9/11 attacks — when Ashton-Atkson suffered an jury that would keep him om playg. A popular young man who “was to everythg that was outdoors and sporty”, Jon says he knew that he was gay om the age of 10 but feared that his sexualy would upend his “happy” existence.

A handsome, sociable, succsful lawyer who talks animatedly about his sire to help future generatns of gay players via his associatn wh Steelers, Jon is the first to acknowledge how ngo seems that someone like him livg 21st century London should have had to rema closeted for so long.

It would have helped enormoly, he says, had there been proment exampl of openly gay players at the very top of the game he loved. ”Ashton-Atkson’s film only started to take shape a year after the Steelers returned om Amsterdam, when Wallabi star Israel Fol — one of the biggt nam Atralian gby and a man wh a history of homophobic tweetg — took to Instagram wh a post clarg that “Hell Awas” homosexuals.