Rugby Atralia Forms Alliance Wh Gay Rugby Clubs – DNA

Contents:

• RUGBY ATRALIA FORMS ALLIANCE WH GAY RUGBY CLUBS
• RUGBY ATRALIA STRIK ALLIANCE WH ATRALIA'S GAY AND CLIVE RUGBY CLUBS
• ISRAEL FOL SACKG HAS SUPPORT OF BRISBANE'S ONLY GAY AND CLIVE GBY CLUB
• BRISBANE GBY TEAM WS GAY EQUIVALENT OF BLEDISLOE CUP
• SYDNEY CONVICTS RETA GAY RUGBY WORLD CUP
• OPENLY GAY RUGBY PLAYER FEATURED IN RUGBY ATRALIA’S NEW #PARTOFMORE CAMPAIGN
• GAY BRISBANE

RUGBY ATRALIA FORMS ALLIANCE WH GAY RUGBY CLUBS

The Brisbane Htlers is Brisbane’s premier gay & clive gby unn team and is lookg for players and anyone who wants to be volved. The Brisbane Htlers began 2004 as Brisbane’s premier gay & clive gby team.

Norths is home to several associated clubs and teams cludg the Norths Junr Rugby Club, the Btards Eagl for over 35 year old players, GgerCloud Foundatn's Modified Rugby Program for young people wh Autism or learng and perceptual disabili, Wavell Heights OzTag and the Brisbane Htlers, Brisbane’s premier gay & clive gby unn team who are currently ranked 4th  the world at the 2022 Bgham Cup. « All Events This event has 22, 2022 @ 6:30 pm AEST The Brisbane Htlers is Brisbane’s premier gay & clive gby unn team and is lookg for players and anyone who wants to be volved. **The Brisbane Htlers began 2004 as Brisbane’s premier gay & clive gby team.

I play for the Brisbane htlers – Brisbane’s gay and clive gby team.

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

We are a social gby club playg a lol Brisbane petn as well as biennial domtic and ternatnal gay gby ps (Purchas and Bgham Cups).

Everyone is wele whether gay, straight or otherwise, all skills levels cludg absolute begners. In 2019, the club reached a pivotal moment when Perth Rams traveled to Brisbane and peted for the first time as an pennt club at Purchas Cup, Atralasian’s biennial gby tournament between the regn’s Internatnal Gay Rugby (IGR) clubs.

In an effort to enurage more gay gby players to the sport and te people about homophobia, Rugby Atralia (RA) has entered to an alliance wh a number of LGBTIQ clive gby clubs.

ISRAEL FOL SACKG HAS SUPPORT OF BRISBANE'S ONLY GAY AND CLIVE GBY CLUB

Brisbane Htlers, and Perth Rams as well as the UK based Internatnal Gay. “This formal alliance between Rugby Atralia and the clubs is a key step forward fosterg and matag a gby environment that is safe, welg and enjoyable for all members of the LGBTIQA (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex, queer/qutng, asexual) muny.

has been straed wh the homophobic posts of one s former star players,. Instagram April sayg that homosexuals and other “sners” would go to. hostg the Bgham Cup — the biennial world champnships of gay Rugby —.

BRISBANE GBY TEAM WS GAY EQUIVALENT OF BLEDISLOE CUP

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. 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.

SYDNEY CONVICTS RETA GAY RUGBY WORLD CUP

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. Brisbane's only gay and clive gby club believ the impendg termatn of Israel Fol's ntract sends the right msage to other players.

Earlier this week the Wallabi star doubled down on ments an Instagram post which he said homosexuals were gog to announcg s tentn to axe Fol's ntract, Rugby Atralia said he was entled to his relig beliefs but that they were nsistent wh the valu of the sport. The Brisbane Htlers are they cy's only gay and clive gby club.

OPENLY GAY RUGBY PLAYER FEATURED IN RUGBY ATRALIA’S NEW #PARTOFMORE CAMPAIGN

"I've heard story upon stori about our young men who report horrific stori of beg outed or exclud om gby, their club and the muny bee they felt unsafe bee of homophobic language and even al homophobia, " he said. 44pmBrisbane’s bt gay gby players have beaten a New Zealand gay gby club on their way to claim what is known as the gay equivalent of the Bledisloe Cup this weekend. However, the Purchas Cup fal on Saturday, gay gby club the Brisbane Htlers feated the Sydney Convicts 22-10, after earlier beatg the New Zealand Falns.

GAY BRISBANE

Brisbane Htlers w gay gby's equivalent of the Bledisloe Cup, the Purchas Cup Purchas Cup is the annual trans-Tasman gay gby champnship and teams om Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and New Zealand pete to take the trophy each clubs are the Melbourne Chargers – the reigng gay gby world champns – the Sydney Convicts Rugby Club, the Brisbane Htlers and the New Zealand Falns gby football acceptg the Purchas Cup on Saturday night, Brisbane Htlers pta JB Co said the gay gby petn was now very strong and all Purchas Cup players wanted the standard to keep improvg. ”The 2017 Purchas Cup tournament was supported by Victorian Rugby Unn and the Melbourne Unirns gby Atralian Rugby Unn signed a memorandum of unrstandg 2014 to m to eraditn of homophobia sport alongsi Cricket Atralia, the Football Feratn of Atralia, AFL and tournament is named after Andrew “Fuzz” Purchas OAM, who is the -founr of the Sydney Convicts Atralia-New Zealand Purchas Cup is ed a precursor for selectn the biennial gay gby unn team, which pet the Bgham Cup. A Brisbane Htlers player mak a break the Purchas Cup Dale NapierThe cup honours Amerin gay gby star Mark Bgham, who one of the passengers who fought back agast hijackers on board Ameri’s Uned flight 93 the September 11, 2001, a gay man and regular gby player, Bgham played for San Francis Fog and also helped set up the Gotham Knights New York, the Bgham Cup webse Bgham and all on the flight tragilly lost their liv when the plane crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, is wily regnised that through the actns of those brave dividuals on board, the plane did not ntue on to s tend 2016, the Melbourne Charg won the Bgham Cup next tournament will be held Amsterdam 2018.

The Sydney Convicts have retaed the Bgham Cup – the gay and clive Rugby World Cup – a 31-0 grand fal thrashg of the Brisbane Htlers Sydney. The Sydney Convicts, Atralia’s first gay gby unn club, field three teams the tournament and their A team took out the top prize for the fourth time the tournament’s history.

NSW Governor Marie Bashir, US Ambassador to Atralia John Berry, NSW gby league State of Orig legend Steve Mortimer and lol Liberal MP Mallm Turnbull were all on hand for the seventh Bgham Cup match follows a momento week Atralian gby, wh the Atralian Rugby Unn announcg an cln policy to tackle petn is named after Mark Bgham, a gay rights advote who died the 11 September terrorist attacks.

Bgham, a gay Amerin gby player, led the passenger revolt agast hijackers of Uned Flight 93 that crashed a Pennsylvania field, killg all 44 on mother Alice Hoagland is a proment mpaigner for LGBTQ rights and me to Atralia for the event.

AdvertisementRugby Atralia has featured an openly gay gby player om the Melbourne Chargers their new #partofMore mpaign which aims to highlight everyday people om the Rugby muny and what they have achieved as a rult of playg the sport. Playg wh the Chargers raised a few different challeng for me – the general public’s perceptn of gay men playg gby as well as gay men’s perceptn of gby as a sport.