The eighth edn of the Bgham Cup, the world champnship of gay and clive gby, gets unrway on Friday Nashville, Tennsee.
Contents:
- INTERNATNAL GAY RUGBY PREPAR FOR BGHAM CUP
- OTTAWA WOLV TO HOST TERNATNAL GAY GBY TOURNAMENT 2020
- ‘IT WAS A SUCCS BEFORE WE STEPPED ON THE PCH’: HOW OTTAWA’S BGHAM CUP LIVERED FOR THE GAY AND CLIVE GBY MUNY
- GAY PARTI & EVENTS
INTERNATNAL GAY RUGBY PREPAR FOR BGHAM CUP
* international gay rugby tournament *
Shortly after a handful of gby unn clubs for gay and bisexual men om the UK and USA had found the Internatnal Gay Rugby Associatn and Board (IGRAB) October 2000, The Washgton Renegas held an rmal, ternatnal, vatnal tournament at their home DC May 2001. As a gay man and regular gby player, Mark not only played for San Francis Fog but also helped to set up Gotham Knights New York Cy and was well known throughout the fledglg IGR was credibly shockg that jt three month’s followg the vatnal, Mark would loose his life the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks, onboard flight Uned October 2001, followg the 2001 vatnal, the San Francis Fog succsfully lobbied IGRAB for the right to put on a XVs gby tournament San Francis June tournament was fashned the style of the Rugby World Cup, wh both the tournament and cup prize named honor of Mark followg a unanimo cisn by all the members of IGRAB.
OTTAWA WOLV TO HOST TERNATNAL GAY GBY TOURNAMENT 2020
Internatnal Gay Rugby has today lnched the official bid procs to fd the host of the 20th anniversary Unn Cup 2025. * international gay rugby tournament *
The Bgham Cup is an ternatnal gay gby unn tournament that promot clivy, equaly and petn.
” Admistered by Internatnal Gay Rugby (IGR), the Bgham Cup is named memory of Mark Kendall Bgham, a former Universy of California, Berkeley gby star and -founr of the Gotham Knights RFC, a gay-clive gby club New York Cy. “The ternatnal gay and clive gby muny is very exced to see the return of the Bgham Cup. One of only four gay-clive gby clubs Canada, the Ottawa Wolv RFC was engaged an extensive biddg procs to w the rights to host the Bgham Cup the natn’s pal back 2018.
‘IT WAS A SUCCS BEFORE WE STEPPED ON THE PCH’: HOW OTTAWA’S BGHAM CUP LIVERED FOR THE GAY AND CLIVE GBY MUNY
Other gay-clive gby clubs Canada clu the Montreal Armada RFC, the Toronto Muddy York RFC and the Vanuver Rogu RFC. The Ottawa Wolv RFC is part of IGR, a member of the Feratn of Gay Gam and regnized by World Rugby as their lead LGBT anizatn. (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.
GAY PARTI & EVENTS
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. “Wh everythg that has happened sce 2018 – I know that the Internatnal Gay Rugby fay needs this tournament more than ever.