Sydney Rangers FC | Atralia's First and Largt Gay and Inclive Men's Soccer Club

Contents:

• SYDNEY RANGERS: AUSTRALIA'S FIRST GAY & INCLUSIVE SOCCER CLUB
• SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS
• THE AFL’S GROWG PROBLEM WH VISIBILY OF GAY PLAYERS
• SYDNEY GAY MAP
• SYDNEY GAY CISE CLUBS

SYDNEY RANGERS: AUSTRALIA'S FIRST GAY & INCLUSIVE SOCCER CLUB

Wele to the official webse of Atralia’s first and Sydney’s only gay and clive men’s soccer club, Sydney Rangers FC.

SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS

Although most the club intify as gay, there are many players and officials who intify as bisexual or straight. The Flyg Bats and Sydney Rangers Football Clubs, alongsi Pri Football Atralia, will host the Internatnal Gay and Lbian Football Associatn (IGLFA) World Champnships XXIV Sydney 2023. Sydney Rangers is Atralia's first and Sydney's only gay and clive men's football club.

The Rangers was found 1997 by a group of gay men, and while gay and bisexual men make up the majory of our members today, we also have many alli and people om different cultural backgrounds who enjoy the environment we’ve created and n jt foc on exprsg themselv on the pch. The Internatnal Gay & Lbian Football Associatn (IGLFA) was found 1992 orr to help promote and foster the growth of LGTBQ football world wi. Pre-Registratn for participants Gay Gam 11 (Hong Kong Nov 2022) open.

THE AFL’S GROWG PROBLEM WH VISIBILY OF GAY PLAYERS

Team Sydney is a non-prof anisatn staffed by volunteers and, addn to anisg lol events such as the sports prence at Mardi Gras Fair Day and Para, and social events for member anisatns throughout the year, Team Sydney reprents their member anisatns to anisers of ternatnal clive sports events such as the Gay Gam and Outgam. While Oxford Street is still the se of many of the longt-nng gay clubs Sydney, the fun isn’t relegated to Darlghurst alone. If you’re keen to really make a night of , keep an eye on the lik of Heaps Gay, Poof Doof, Hoe of Mce, Honcho Disko and Birdge (as well as the social media-elive Kooky) to fd out when their next soiree start planng your next night out, read on for our gui to some of Sydney’s favoure gay clubs, pubs and bars.

Chg-a-lgsSure, ’s not officially a gay bar, but Chg-a-lgs draws a pendably queer crowd. The ColombianOpen 9am ‘til 6am every day — y, you read that right — this sprawlg Oxford St hnt n always be unted on for a tipple the early 117-125 Oxford St, DarlghurstYou n fd all the tails for this year's Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras here. Febary 19 @ 12:00 am - Febary 23 @ 12:00 am AEST The Flyg Bats and Sydney Rangers Football Clubs, along wh Pri Football Atralia, will host the Internatnal Gay and Lbian Football Associatn (IGLFA) World Champnships XXIV Sydney 2023.

The terstate gay and lbian tournament has grown over the years to bee a petive and social event for all participatg teams and supporters. The Jt Fashanu Cup remembers and celebrat the life of the first gay man to publicly e out profsnal football 1990.

SYDNEY GAY MAP

In 1990 Fashanu enuntered hostily after beg the first proment footballer to intify himself publicly as gay an terview wh the tabloid prs. Many former lleagu spoke out anger agast him, statg that gays had no place a team sport, and his brother John publicly disowned him. Fashanu agreed an exclive wh The Sun tabloid to e out as gay.

They ran the headle as “£1m Football Star: I AM GAY” on 22 October 1990. A week later, his brother John Fashanu agreed an exclive wh The Voice unr the headle “John Fashanu: My Gay Brother is an outst”.

SYDNEY GAY CISE CLUBS

Fashanu was listed at number 99 the Top 500 Lbian and Gay Hero The Pk Paper (UK), 26 September 1997. A after his ath, Fashanu was still the only profsnal footballer the world to disclose he was gay acrdg to the BBC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews.We had a nice time at the gay bar here although everythg was jt a ltle sticky on the night we went.

Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews.We had trouble fdg reliable rmatn on the gay bar and club scene Sydney. Once here, we disvered that Oxford Street is the qutsential gayborhood of Sydney and Universal is the only major gay bar open 7 days a week. Social club for Sydney's gay muny the 1960s and 70s.

Gay social club for women at Dmmoyne. Gay social club of the 1960s and 70s. Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras.

Not for prof member based group that anis the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Para and Ftival as well as number of other events throughout the year. SportAFLLGBTQThis was published 1 year agoOpnIn one key rpect, the AFL is lookg creasgly out of touch wh our broar society: the glarg lack of anybody the male playg group who is out and openly gay when, most other spher of life, people now feel fortable and safe to e wh sensible morn rporatns, the AFL’s executiv and key figur are well versed the phraseology of diversy and clivy.

The AFLW petn clus many LGBTQ players, a fact that go virtually unremarked upon, and clubs Sydney and St Kilda play an annual pri Cavallo of the Alai Uned A-League men’s Getty ImagOf urse a person’s sexualy is their own bs and nobody would wish that someone felt prsured to e out as gay.

No doubt much of the attentn would be posive, but there would probably also be a luge of hate – across the fence, on talkback rad, perhaps om others on the field, and particularly the cspools of social A-League player Josh Cavallo beme the first active top-flight male profsnal soccer player the world to e out as gay, he received enormo support om some quarters, cludg landg a lucrative sponsorship. But once the acclaim had died down, he field homophobic slurs and ath threats. It will not be enough for the petn to say is none of s bs, or, worse, to rely on a particular player orr to market self as an “clive” Denison, a behavural science rearcher at Monash Universy’s School of Social Scienc, wrote The Age last year that “the visibily of [gay] male AFL players is a symptom of a ser problem that has long been ignored by the AFL and other erng bodi”, which is that people actually fear g out, fear beg themselv.