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The Berl Bisers were cshed their first game, but Germany's first and only gay gby team tdged off the pch buoyant and proud.

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Wele to the Berl Bisers, the home of gay and clive gby Germany's pal. * gay rugby berlin *

GERMANY'S FIRST gay &INCLUSIVE RUGBY CLUBABOUT USRugby is a game for everyone - no matter who you are. Summarize this article for a 10 years oldSHOW ALL QUESTIONSThe Berl Bisers are a gay and clive gby club based Berl, Germany. Although they are a primarily gay gby team, the club is open to anyone wh an tert playg gby and clus members of all sexuali and genr inti.

The club is affiliated wh Internatnal Gay Rugby. Berl BisersUnnInternatnal Gay Rugby Associatn and BoardNickname(s)BisersFound2012LotnBerl, GermanyPrintAlex CraddockCoach()vantCapta(s)Michael MejdaLeague(s)Rugby-Regnalliga Nord-Ost. Proudly the first German gay/clive gby team.

The Berl Bisers were cshed their first game, but Germany's first and only gay gby team tdged off the pch buoyant and proud. BERLIN, Germany — They may have suffered a heavy feat on their but, but the Berl Bisers tdged off the pch buoyant and proud after Germany’s only gay gby team played their first petive match. A flurry of tri by the Warrrs, Ireland’s first gay gby team which was found 10 years ago, the fal 15 mut may have flattered the guts, but the ozen ndns favoured the hosts.

“ICH B E ARSCHFICKER”: GERMANY’S FIRST GAY RUGBY TEAM CHALLENG HOMOPHOBIA

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The world’s first gay gby team, London’s Kgs Cross Steelers, was found 1995 and there are gay gby teams sttered across North Ameri, Atralia and Europe. The Bisers have already attracted plenty of support om Berl’s gay muny wh 500 members and 35 active players trag three tim a week.

A BENEF FOR BERL’S ONLY GAY-INCLIVE RUGBY TEAM, THE BERL BISERS!

From a motley crew of newbi, the gay team Berl Bisers is evolvg to a legimate gby force – tacklg stereotyp along the way. The Bisers show off more than jt their athletic chops at the Vlet Varieté at Monster Ronson's Jun 19. * gay rugby berlin *

“It all me about down the pub when a few of asked the qutn ‘why isn’t there a gay gby team here?

Wh their first match out of the way, the Bisers next goal is to fd a permanent ground to tra at to prepare for the Unn Cup, the biennial tournament for gay European teams, hosted this May Bristol, England. While the vast majory of the Bisers team is gay, their Amerin ach Michael Felts, who played llege gby North Carola, is straight.

“I’ve had a few surprised looks when I tell people I ach a gay team, but all the ments I have heard have been posive, ” said the 24-year-old, who normally plays on the wg, but played at outsi half agast the Warrrs.

GERMANY'S FIRST GAY GBY TEAM SCMS DOWN

They may have suffered a heavy feat on their but, but the Berl Bisers tdged off the pch buoyant and proud after Germany's only gay gby team played their first petive match on Saturday. * gay rugby berlin *

Poignantly, the Bisers tra Tiergarten jt a few metr om the memorial to homosexuals persecuted and murred unr Nazi le om 1933-45. Photo by Jason HarrellFrom a motley crew of newbi, the gay team Berl Bisers is evolvg to a legimate gby force – tacklg stereotyp along the way. That, and they’re gay.

The first gay gby team Germany was found April 2012, when Irish expat Dave Egan (who has sce left the team) floated the ia on the datg work GayRomeo.

“We’re a ‘gay team who’s straight-iendly, ’” Wi lghs.

GERMANY'S FIRST GAY GBY TEAM SCMS DOWN

They may have suffered a heavy feat on their but, but the Berl Bisers tdged off the pch buoyant and proud after Germany's only gay gby team played their first petive match on Saturday. * gay rugby berlin *

Gay or straight, recs are attracted by the Bisers’ clive attu and sense of mararie. After narrowly losg the Brannburg match, the van back to Berl, they playfully chastise ach Michael Felts, a straight Amerin, as he tri to hand around bakery snacks: “Michael, you know not to give gays rbs after six!

” The team’s purple jerseys n be spotted at events om the Christopher Street Day para, to “rattlg sabers outsi the Rsian Embassy, ” per Wi, to gay gby’s biennial Unn Cup (though there is only one other like-md team Germany, the Cologne Cshers, untri like the UK have had gay teams for a while). They ed Abbvie’s support to hold their first biennial Bash-About, a weekend-long gay gby clic, hostg dividual players om some of England’s gay teams, along wh players om Bssels, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Rome and Madrid.

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“They jt me to play this mi tournament and sudnly they’re this gay ft.

Social mpaign by the agency Zum Golnen Hirschen go on the offensive agast toleranceGermany’s first gay gby team has lnched an eye-tchg and provotive social media mpaign this week challengg Berl Bisers - a team who has weled players of all experience levels sce 2012 - took to the ter durg Berl’s Pri Weeks wh a seri of arrtg imag created by the agency Zum golnen Hirschen that scrib as a “face-to-face offensive” executn featur the face of a player overlaid wh a statement that reads both “Ich b e Berl Biser” (“I am a Berl Biser”) and also a label that is applied to gay men, such as “Arsefucker”, “Cock Lover”, “Dirty Bastard” and “Genr Benr” team’s slogan “Fight for beg you” rerc the mpaign’s goal to overe prejudice, excln, stereotyp and mpaign’s aim is also to attract new players.

But first, I drew the fabulo performers at a benef for the Bisers, who are Berl’s only gay-clive gby team. A flurry of tri by the Warrrs, Ireland's first gay gby team which was found 10 years ago, the fal 15 mut may have flattered the guts, but the ozen ndns favoured the hosts. The world's first gay gby team, London's Kgs Cross Steelers, was found 1995 and there are gay gby teams sttered across North Ameri, Atralia and Europe.

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