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• MEET THE AUSSIE GAY RUGBY TEAMS COMPETING IN THE 2022 BINGHAM CUP IN CANADA
• CORK'S LGBT RUGBY TEAM TO PLAY THE GAY RUGBY CHAMPNSHIPS THIS WEEKENDTHE CORK HELLHOUNDS WERE FOUND 2020 AS AN CLIVE GBY CLUBRKLIVEBOOKMARKSHARENEWSBYDAIRE FTONREPORTER20:42, 24 APR 2023BOOKMARKTHE CORK HELLHOUNDSGET OUR ULTIMATE GUI ON THGS TO DO CORK WH OUR CORK LOV EMAILMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 GET OUR ULTIMATE GUI ON THGS TO DO CORK WH OUR CORK LOV EMAILINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
• GAY RUGBY CHAMPNSHIPS BIRMGHAM
• VANUVER'S FIRST GAY AND CLIVE GBY TEAM IS BACK
• GAY PRO GBY PLAYER NICK MCCARTHY OUT IRELAND TO WISPREAD ACCEPTANCE
• RUGBY ATRALIA STRIK ALLIANCE WH ATRALIA'S GAY AND CLIVE RUGBY CLUBS
• HEARD OF THE STEELERS? NO, NOT THEM, THE GAY GBY TEAM OM LONDON
• ‘IT WAS A SUCCS BEFORE WE STEPPED ON THE PCH’: HOW OTTAWA’S BGHAM CUP LIVERED FOR THE GAY AND CLIVE GBY MUNY
• ATRALIAN FIGHTS HOMOPHOBIA WH WORLD GAY BOXG CHAMPNSHIPS
• JOZI CATS: SOUTH AI'S FIRST GAY AND CLIVE GBY CLUB
• SYDNEY TO HOST WORLD GAY GBY CHAMPNSHIPS
• GAY PRO GBY PLAYER SPIRED TO E OUT BY LOVE OF HIS BOYIEND
• STTISH GAY GBY TEAM CROWNED CHAMPNS AT THE WORLD’S LGBT GBY WORLD CUP

MEET THE AUSSIE GAY RUGBY TEAMS COMPETING IN THE 2022 BINGHAM CUP IN CANADA

The 10th Bgham Cup, known as the Gay Rugby World Cup, is schled to start later this week Ottawa, Canada. Atralia’s favoure gay gby team, Sydney Convicts are the current holrs of the Bgham Cup.

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A nservative school board southern California reversed urse and approved a social studi curriculum that referenc gay rights activist Harvey Milk, after Gov. 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.

CORK'S LGBT RUGBY TEAM TO PLAY THE GAY RUGBY CHAMPNSHIPS THIS WEEKENDTHE CORK HELLHOUNDS WERE FOUND 2020 AS AN CLIVE GBY CLUBRKLIVEBOOKMARKSHARENEWSBYDAIRE FTONREPORTER20:42, 24 APR 2023BOOKMARKTHE CORK HELLHOUNDSGET OUR ULTIMATE GUI ON THGS TO DO CORK WH OUR CORK LOV EMAILMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 GET OUR ULTIMATE GUI ON THGS TO DO CORK WH OUR CORK LOV EMAILINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!

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.

GAY RUGBY CHAMPNSHIPS BIRMGHAM

Lei's own LGBT-clive gby team, the Cork Hellhounds are jettg off to the UK this weekend to make their Gay Rugby Champnship but. The Unn Cup, anised by Internatnal Gay Rugby and hosted this year by the Birmgham Bulls, will have over 40 gay and clive gby teams om across Europe takg part. The Cork Hellhounds were found 2020 as an clive gby club, wh the support of both the Gay Project and Munster Rugby.

Months of preparatn and trag have led to this moment, and we have a great group of players and supporters travellg to show the rt of the gay and clive gby muny what beg a Cork Hellhound is all about. In sports news, the pennt newspaper B247 reports that the cy's gay iendly gby team, the Bristol Bisons, have celebrated a historic w over London based Kg's Cross Steelers to w the Internatnal Gay Rugby’s Southern Development League.

Live Streamg will be available om the Unn Cup webse, and selected highlights broadst on the LGBT+ rad statn Gayd.

VANUVER'S FIRST GAY AND CLIVE GBY TEAM IS BACK

Brish ColumbiaThe Vanuver Rogu, first active 2002 to 2008, is back wh the hope of creatg a safe environment for people of different sexual orientatns and genr inti to enjoy the ntact Vanuver Rogu is recg players for a tournament next summerThe Vanuver Rogu gay and clive gby unn club, first found 2001, was revived early this year. (Ty Mart)Brennan Bastyovanszky, 42, has played gby sce childhood and lov the sport — except for what he scrib as the prevalence of homophobic language wh mastream clubs. So early this year, he helped revive the Vanuver Rogu, a gby club clive to players of all sexual orientatns and genr club secretary says he has heard a lot of homophobic language om teammat durg his 25 years as a gby player  B.

And the queer muny would have reprentatn the Bgham Cup, the world champnships of gay and clive gby, which will take place Ottawa next year.

GAY PRO GBY PLAYER NICK MCCARTHY OUT IRELAND TO WISPREAD ACCEPTANCE

"There were even ocsns when I was nonted, physilly threatened by people on my own team, " said Bastyovanszky, who later joed the Sydney Convicts, which scrib self as the first gay and clive gby unn club Atralia. Bastyovanszky revived the team after returng to Vanuver earlier this realized that the Bgham Cup, the biennial world champnships of gay and clive gby, was beg held Ottawa next Augt — and there wasn't a team reprentg the provce. "Canada a 'laggard' on homophobia sports, studi showOpnUnlike European sport, anti-gay sentiment still ns ep North Amerin leagu: Michael CorenLISTEN︱Brennan Bastyovanszky on why he revived the Vanuver Rogu gby club:Wh fil om The Early Edn.

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

The Mark Kendall Bgham Memorial Tournament, or Bgham Cup as is more wily known, is the biennial world champnships of gay and clive gby.

The tournament was first held 2002 memory of 9/11 gay gby hero Mark Bgham, one of the passengers who fought back agast hijackers on board Uned Flight 93. As a gay man and regular gby player, Mark played for San Francis Fog and helped set up Gotham Knights New York Cy.

Admistered by Internatnal Gay Rugby (IGR), the Bgham Cup hostg duti are award through a biddg procs among the members of IGR.

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

Internatnal Gay Rugby (IGR) was formed 2000 when gby teams om across the world me together bee they wanted to form an anizatn that promoted gby as an all-clive, non-discrimatory sport which everyone n play, regardls of sexualy. Formally known as the Internatnal Gay Rugby Associatn and Board (IGRAB), the formatn of the IGR led to the start of the Bgham Cup 2002, which was origally known as the Mark Kendall Bgham Memorial Tournament.

The event will host the Movg the Goal Post Internatnal Summ, assemblg the top legal and sport-rearch mds to tackle transphobia and homophobia sport. When he talked wh a uple of ach last year, the support they showed him opened his ey to the te state of wispread acceptance of gay athlet sports. World Rugby has mted to explorg this optn wh s Unns, Associatns, Internatnal Rugby Players, and trans advote groups cludg Genred Intelligence and Internatnal Gay Rugby.

‘IT WAS A SUCCS BEFORE WE STEPPED ON THE PCH’: HOW OTTAWA’S BGHAM CUP LIVERED FOR THE GAY AND CLIVE GBY MUNY

Rugby Atralia has stck a formal alliance wh Atralia’s four gay and clive Rugby Clubs and Internatnal Gay Rugby (IGR) wh the aim of growg Rugby participatn amongst the LGBTIQA+ muny Atralia.

Wh a primary charter to grow the participatn rate of people playg Rugby the LGBTIQA+ muny, the Commtee will look to intify barriers and propose solutns to promote participatn, as well as tg the Rugby muny about the impact of homophobia on the safety and wellbeg of LGBTIQA+ participants.

ATRALIAN FIGHTS HOMOPHOBIA WH WORLD GAY BOXG CHAMPNSHIPS

The Commtee will also look to strengthen and grow the existg four gay and clive Rugby Clubs – Sydney Convicts, Melbourne Chargers, Brisbane Htlers and Perth Rams – and support the velopment of new Clubs. Rugby Atralia Chief Executive, Raelene Castle said: “Rugby Atralia has worked closely wh the gay and clive Rugby clubs to velop a program to further support the velopment of Rugby the LGBTIQA+ muny. As part of the partnership, Rugby Atralia will also work alongsi the clubs and IGR to brg the Bgham Cup - the biennial world champnships of gay Rugby - back to Atralia, havg hosted the tournament for the first time 2014 Sydney.

Niamh LewisMar 1, 2021, 09:52 AM ETWhen Eammon Ashton-Atkson, an Atralian televisn reporter, cid to film his gby club as they went to the biannual Bgham Cup 2018, he uld never have imaged the posive reactn a documentary about would film Steelers is about London-based Kgs Cross Steelers, the world's first gay gby club and one of over 60 such sis world-wi.

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JOZI CATS: SOUTH AI'S FIRST GAY AND CLIVE GBY CLUB

"It's a story about a gay gby club, but 's also a story about human stggle, and people g sport and their sense of muny to help each other, which is universal, " Ashton-Atkson told ESPN.

SYDNEY TO HOST WORLD GAY GBY CHAMPNSHIPS

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GAY PRO GBY PLAYER SPIRED TO E OUT BY LOVE OF HIS BOYIEND

They were dubbed the tabloids as 'Harlequeens, ' there was homophobic ments, and a fear over ntractg HIV and AIDS. "For those of who grew up when wasn't ok to be gay, jt really before the ter was mon, there was huge stigma. You had Margaret Thatcher's Sectn 28 [a law brought the UK by a Conservative ernment om 1988-2003 to the "prohib the promotn of homosexualy"], misnceptns about the HIV vis, " Ashton-Atkson explas.

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STTISH GAY GBY TEAM CROWNED CHAMPNS AT THE WORLD’S LGBT GBY WORLD CUP

Once every two years, the gay and clive gby muny gathers for s biennial world champnships, better known as the Bgham Cup.

Organised by Internatnal Gay Rugby (IGR) and now among the largt amatr gby unn tournaments the world, the event’s two- history has seen pch up glamoro lotns rangg om London and New York Cy to Sydney and Amsterdam. This year, the petn was held Ottawa, which self boasts a vibrant LGBTQ+ muny and is also home to the Ottawa Wolv, one of the only gay and clive gby clubs Canada that lays claim to both a men’s and women’s si. Bgham himself played for San Francis Fog, the first gay and clive gby club on Ameri’s wt ast, and helped to tablish New York’s Gotham Knights.