Atralia’s First Gay Rugby Team To Play First Profsnal Match

Contents:

• INTERNATNAL GAY RUGBY
• TACKLG HOMOPHOBIC ATTUS: THE STRAIGHT MEN WHO PLAY FOR GAY GBY CLUBS
• GAY GBY CLUB V PRO PLAYER WHO YELLED GAY SLUR TO PRACTICE WH THEM
• SYDNEY CONVICTS LOOKG TO W BIG GAY GBY'S 'WORLD CUP'
• SYDNEY CONVICTS RETA GAY RUGBY WORLD CUP
• GAY GBY PLAYER BRENNAN BASTYOVANSZKY SPEAKS OUT AGAST HOMOPHOBIC ABE
• ATRALIA’S FIRST GAY RUGBY TEAM TO PLAY FIRST PROFSNAL MATCH
• RUGBY ATRALIA STRIK ALLIANCE WH ATRALIA'S GAY AND CLIVE RUGBY CLUBS

INTERNATNAL GAY RUGBY

Pre-Registratn for participants Gay Gam 11 (Hong Kong Nov 2022) open. 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.

IGR is Internatnal Gay Rugby (Associatn and Board) – an anisatn of member clubs of primarily gay and clive gby clubs.

providg opportuni for members of the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr muny (LGBT) to pete gby through tolerant and acceptg clubs and teams, both primarily LGBT and LGBT-iendly and by elimatg homophobia gby through muny outreach, petive play and tournament events that stand for tolerance and acceptance sports; and. We are an Associate Member of the Feratn of Gay Gam and we are regnised by the World Rugby as the reprentative LGBT anisatn. ImagCreativeVioCreativeEdorialRUGBYU-AUSBrennan Bastyovanszky (C) of the Sydney Convicts, an all gay gby team, is tackled by Donovan Baker (R) of Macquarie Universy at the Allianz Stadium Sydney on July 6, 2014.

TACKLG HOMOPHOBIC ATTUS: THE STRAIGHT MEN WHO PLAY FOR GAY GBY CLUBS

Atralia's Sydney Convicts ma history when they bee the first gay gby team the world to play on the same bill as a profsnal match agast Macquarie Universy the curta-raiser to the Super Rugby game between the New South Wal Waratahs and New Zealand's Otago Highlanrs. AFP PHOTO / Peter PARKS -- IMAGE STRICTLY FOR EDITORIAL USE - STRICTLY NO COMMERCIAL USE (Photo cred should read PETER PARKS/AFP via Getty Imag)Brennan Bastyovanszky (C) of the Sydney Convicts, an all gay gby team, is tackled by Donovan Baker (R) of Macquarie Universy at the Allianz Stadium Sydney on July 6, 2014. The top eight teams qualify for the was the only club planng to wear a pri jersey this Manly forward Ian Roberts, who the 1990s was the first high-profile gby league player to e out as gay, said he was not surprised by the players’ cisn.

“As an olr gay man I’m ed to this. The most mon qutn Man Traer gets asked when he proudly tells people he plays for the Sydney Convicts is: “Why would you play for a gay gby club?

GAY GBY CLUB V PRO PLAYER WHO YELLED GAY SLUR TO PRACTICE WH THEM

“Why wouldn’t I play for a gay team? ”Although he is straight, Traer feels a nnectn to the gay muny, havg been raised by gay parents, and after givg away petive boxg due to an jury he saw an opportuny to redisver his love of sport. “It was a really good opportuny for me to not only learn a new sport, but bee they are a gay clive team gave me an opportuny to give back to the gay muny, ” he says.

Beg a young straight guy, playg a gay team giv me the chance to challenge those norms and stereotyp. ”Jeremy Schmz, a straight man who plays for the world’s first gay-clive gby club, London’s Kgs Cross Steelers, feels the same way. ’ That kd of homophobic slur manifted self throughout the gby club.

SYDNEY CONVICTS LOOKG TO W BIG GAY GBY'S 'WORLD CUP'

“I didn’t know that was a gay gby club when I turned up, ” he says. “Already to my six-year-old son, thgs that are not good are ‘gay’, ” Traer says. At that age, they don’t even know what they’re sayg and ’s hard to rrect a child and try to expla to him why llg somethg he don’t like gay is not appropriate, bee he hasn’t even learnt the Schmz actn for Kgs Cross Steelers.

SYDNEY CONVICTS RETA GAY RUGBY WORLD CUP

”New rearch released this week shows Traer and Schmz are not alone their sire to rid tradnal male sportg environments om homophobic language.

A rearch team found the e of homophobic slurs is not always ditive of homophobic attus. “I thk about beg mascule and beg a homosexual man, they never dovetail. It’s not gog to be done by jt the straight muny, jt the gay muny, jt the sportg muny, jt the tnal stutns.

GAY GBY PLAYER BRENNAN BASTYOVANSZKY SPEAKS OUT AGAST HOMOPHOBIC ABE

When the Atralian Rugby Unn fed NSW Waratahs player Jacqu Potgieter $20, 000 for g a gay slur durg a recent match, the top gay gby team Atralia (and the world) praised the quick rponse. "We appld the Atralian Rugby Unn and the Waratahs for actg so quickly to vtigate and rolve this matter and rercg their mment to eradite homophobia gby and providg a posive environment for all, " Said Andrew Purchas, founr of the Sydney Convicts and Print of last year's Sydney Bgham Cup. "It is certaly disappotg that this event occurred at all and highlights the ongog need for all sports to be actively engaged elimatg homophobia.

"He would quickly regnize that beg gay has no impact on a person's abily to play gby or their passn for the game. The Sydney ConvictsThe Sydney Convicts are Atralia’s first gay and clive Rugby Unn club.

ATRALIA’S FIRST GAY RUGBY TEAM TO PLAY FIRST PROFSNAL MATCH

Together wh our partners and sponsors we strive to grow the nversatn around anti-homophobia sport, and for many years have been volved creatg real change. This clus lnchg an Anti-Homophobia & Incln Framework for Atralian Sports on the back of hostg the 2014 Bgham Cup Sydney and leadg the 'Out on The Fields' survey - the first ternatnal study on homophobia our season we tra and play at our home ground Rose Bay, Sydney / Gadigal Land wh the Woollahra Colleagu RFC. Homophobia, biphobia, transphobia and terphobia are not accepted wh our club.

The Sydney Convicts are Atralia’s first gay and clive Rugby Unn club.

RUGBY ATRALIA STRIK ALLIANCE WH ATRALIA'S GAY AND CLIVE RUGBY CLUBS

While many Convicts players intify as homosexual or bisexual, there are a number of players and officials who intify as heterosexual. The club rais funds to mata our teams the our domtic petn and orr to travel to ternatnal tournaments, such as the World Cup of gay gby, the Bgham Cup.

Sce s ceptn 2002, the Bgham Cup has bee the 'World Cup' of gay gby; highlightg the very bt of the clive (but still petive) team sport biannually, the tournament was named honour of Mark Bgham, an openly gay athlete who played for the gay-clive gby team San Francis Fog RFC. "More than jt a sports team, the Sydney Convicts were last year volved the marriage equaly survey, workg alongsi Atralian Marriage Equaly as proud supporters of the Y light of recent ntroversy surroundg, the team also tak a firm stance agast negative ments ma by dividuals the wir gby muny and lnched an Anti-Homophobia & Incln Framework for Atralian Sports back 2014; a amework document signed to bat discrimatn agast LGBTIQ+ people sport. Cast & crewUser reviews201554mThe liv of a self assured Canadian jock, a rookie Irish backpacker and a stoic Japane outsir change when they vie for a posn the gay gby world liv of a self assured Canadian jock, a rookie Irish backpacker and a stoic Japane outsir change when they vie for a posn the gay gby world liv of a self assured Canadian jock, a rookie Irish backpacker and a stoic Japane outsir change when they vie for a posn the gay gby world productn, box office & pany PhotosMore like this6.

Tablished specifilly to actively reach out to tradnally unr-reprented groups gby; such as people of lor, gay men and women (though players who do not f to the tegori are not exclud). It also pet the Internatnal Gay Rugby Associatn and Board (IGRAB) season.