Straffe Ketten RFC - Internatnal Gay Rugby

Contents:

• BSSELS GAY DISTRICT
• BSSELS GAY SPORTS (BGS)
• GAY TOURISM: LARGT EUROPEAN GAY-CLIVE GBY TOURNAMENT
• DISMANTLG STEREOTYP: 10 INSPIRG GAY RUGBY PLAYERS AND PERSONALI
• GAY BSSELS · CY GUI
• THE 10 BEST BSSELS GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS BSSELS
• BSSELS GAY MAP
• BSSELS GAY DISTRICT
• GAY BSSELS
• HEARD OF THE STEELERS? NO, NOT THEM, THE GAY GBY TEAM OM LONDON

BSSELS GAY DISTRICT

A proud member of IGR (Internatnal Gay Rugby) and participatg different petns Belgium and abroad, we are as much about the teamwork and brotherhood as we are about gby and makg our sport more clive. We were created 2010 as the gay gby team of Bssels.

We perceived a lot of tert for gby the gay muny Bssels, but very few guys actually attempted to jo a gby club.

BSSELS GAY SPORTS (BGS)

Fally this weekend, the time has e to play a real gby match agast our bt enemi: the Amsterdam Lowlanrs, anisers of last year’s amazg Unn Cup tournament, and our neart neighbours the gay gby muny.

) we had the great pleasure of hostg the Stockholm Berserkers, a new gay gby team om Swen, for their first trip abroad. We’ll e the money to fund our participatn to next year’s Bgham Cup  Manchter, the “gay gby world cup”. We're a fun & social gay gby team Bssels.

Loted the center of Bssels, and jt a few steps away om the Grand Place, Rue Marche Charbon has bee the animated gay area of Bssels. This street really is the heart of gay life Bssels, and is actually where the largt ncentratn of LGBT plac n be found the pal.

GAY TOURISM: LARGT EUROPEAN GAY-CLIVE GBY TOURNAMENT

Unr the rabow flags, clus a large number of gay plac, rtrants and gay bars bssels such as Le Boudoir du Garçon, Plattteen, Belgi, Tels Quels, Dolor, Homo Erect Classic.

In addn to this, Rue Marche Charbon is home to one of the most-known gay snas Bssels, Macho Sna. If you are lookg for one of the bt plac to go gay clubbg Bssels, we suggt stoppg by La Demence, which is loted to the south of the cy, close to Bssels Midi tra statn.

2nd the Internatnal Lbians & Gay Associatn-Europe rankgs, Belgium has, for a long time, been mted to the rights and cln of LGBTQIA+ people. LGBTQIA+: the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, tersex, asexual, aromantic muni, their alli and all other muni (+).

DISMANTLG STEREOTYP: 10 INSPIRG GAY RUGBY PLAYERS AND PERSONALI

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GAY BSSELS · CY GUI

The Unn Cup is a bi-annual European, non- profsnal, gay gby unn tournament, brgg together teams and jot teams om all over Europe. But bt of all, support our Belgian Gay Rugby Team, Straffe Ketten!

Straffe Ketten RFC is the first gby team (mostly) ma up of gay men Belgium. From May 21-24, Straffe Ketten, the only gay-clive gby club Belgium, will host the Unn Cup Bssels.

The Unn Cup is the largt European gay-clive gby tournament and is anized wh the objective of batg homophobia and all forms of discrimatn and prejudice sports. The Unn Cup is the largt European gay-clive gby tournament Europe.

THE 10 BEST BSSELS GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS BSSELS

Straffe Ketten – Bssels Gay-clive Team. The anisers are the Straffe Ketten RFC, a gay-clive gby team based Bssels. The team pet the Belgian Franphone Rugby League (LBFR) agast lol teams and also participat iendly match wh gay-clive clubs om across Europe.

The Straffe Ketten participated the Unn Cup 2011 and 2013, as well as the Bgham Cup, the World Cup of gay gby, 2012 Manchter. In light of recent ntroversy regardg homophobic slurs by Israel Fol, we thought we would she a light on 10 fluential gay gby personali.

The players have bee a bean of light bee they overme stereotyp and other challeng faced by homosexual athlet way too often. In this article, we’ll name ten of the most notable gay gby personali, analyze their acplishments, discs how they are shapg the game today, and asss their impact on the overall perceptn of homosexual profsnal athlet around the world. That beg said, due to s physily, gby is regard as a “manly” sport, which mak more difficult for gay players to publicly acknowledge their preference.

BSSELS GAY MAP

At the same time, there are many misnceptns about this betiful sport, which has led to the margalizatn and targetg of gay players. Some high-profile stars like Israel Fol have recently ma headl due to potentially homophobic posts on social media.

BSSELS GAY DISTRICT

This is one of the ma reasons why reprentativ of World Rugby met wh the lears of Internatnal Gay Rugby (IGR) to help eradite homophobia and tolerance om the game. Notable homosexual gby players and personali.

Here’s a list of ten notable gay gby players and how they are shapg the game today. The very first high-profile gby player to ever e out to the public as gay is former Atralian ternatnal Ian Roberts. Even though Ian Roberts may have been the first high-profile player to openly adm beg gay, Keegan Hirst was the first to ever do while still active.

Currently a Wakefield Try prop, Hirst has bee one of the most notable gay athlet, earng himself a startg role after signg a ntract wh the League si 2016. Sam Stanley beme the first openly gay Rugby Unn and Sevens player the UK.

GAY BSSELS

Although he never played gby at a profsnal level, Mark Bgham has bee an inic figure for gay gby players and sportspeople around the world. Known for his heroics durg the September 11 attacks, Bgham was a robt send-row man who played for the gay-clive San Francis Fog RFC.

The Mark Kendall Bgham Memorial Tournament, simply known as the Bgham Cup, is a biennial gay gby unn tournament which was held for the first time 2002.

Thomas publicly me out 2009 and has sce scribed his experience as a secretly gay player, revealg how the social prsure and stereotyp pose a signifint challenge for many athlet today. The Welshman is also a TV personaly and a voted activist for the LGBT e, wng “Gay Sports Personaly of the De” at the Stonewall awards ceremony London back 2015.

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

It's also the pal of the European Unn which therefore Europeans om every member state live and work Bssels, which together wh regular flows of tourists, make for a very smopolan cy has a lively central gay bar and ternatnal club scene. It is a popular statn wh gay travelers and club goers om throughout Europe and Rights BelgiumSuated the liberal heartland of Northern Europe, Belgium has a long held and well served reputatn as tolerant and acceptg of LGBT rights, and was jt the send untry the world (after the Netherlands) to legalise same-sex marriage - activy has been legal for nsirably longer (sce 1795) and the age of nsent was equalised, to 16, 1985.

Adoptn rights for gay upl were equalised to those for straight upl 2006, and there is no ban on gay recs om servg the laws employment and social welfare provisn me to force Belgium 2003, and sce 2007 trans-genr rights have been formalised, grantg Belgians the legal right to change their genr. In 2014 laws protectg genr inty/exprsn were are several openly gay Belgian MP’s and the LGBT muny generally is well-accepted and tegrated to wir Belgian SceneThe ma gay scene of Bssels is loted the very centre of the cy, behd the Grand Place, and is very nvenient and easy to cy’s biggt and most famo gay dance party is La Demence at Fe club, which attracts guys om all over Europe.

Bssels gay Pri ftival tak place every May for one week, leadg up to Pri Day Bssels on the Saturday. Do note to always book high speed tra tickets as far advance as you n, as ticket pric reflect Grand PlaceGettg around BsselsIf you are visg Bssels for a few days, you will probably need no more than your own steam to get you where you want to be, wh both the gay scene and the major cy tourist s beg the pact, largely pestrianised central cy explore the wir cy, the bt optn is the reliable, clean and extensive Metro system, which has six l.