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• GAY SPORTS LEAGU NYC: ATHLETIC CLUBS FOR EVERY GAY JOCK
• ALICE HOAGLAND, GRIEVG INSPIRATN GAY RUGBY, DI AT 71

GAY SPORTS LEAGU NYC: ATHLETIC CLUBS FOR EVERY GAY JOCK

ConttThe Gotham Knights Rugby Football Club is a Divisn III men's club the Empire GU of New York and a member of Internatnal Gay Rugby (IGR). The Knights are one of the top petive clubs at the Bgham Cup, a biannual ternatnal gay/clive gby unn tournament.

The Knights beme the Internatnal Gay Rugby Champns at the 2010 Bgham Cup Mneapolis, Mnota.

Through our 15 year history we have proudly field teams of diverse athlet of all skill levels and dited experience to petivens, excellence and fns gby while refutg negative stereotyp of the Gay/Bi-sexual male athletic muny. While our membership is not Gay/Bisexual exclive, all active members fully support their Gotham Rugby brothers and support the Gotham Missn to the LGBTQ muny. The Gotham Knights Rugby Football Club is the premier gay/clive gby team New York Cy.

ALICE HOAGLAND, GRIEVG INSPIRATN GAY RUGBY, DI AT 71

We are a D-III men gby club the Empire RFU GU of New York and a member of Internatnal Gay Rugby (IGR). Followg the tradn of Internatnal Gay Rugby (IGR) teams like the London Kgs Cross Steelers (1995), San Francis Fog RFC (2000), and the Washgton Renegas (2000), recent part-time New York Cy bs owner and Fog player, Mark Bgham, discsed wh lol gby player Stt Glasgen the prospect of foundg a team New York.

Anyone who's watched the Gay Pri March knows that gay jocks have plenty of lol optns when to fdg LGBT-iendly sports leagu. Whatever the se, the fun, iendly NYC gay sports leagu offer a cidly more thentic sportg experience than you'll fd one of our lol gay sportsbars. A member of the North Amerin Gay Amatr Athletic Alliance (), the BASL clus both petive and recreatnal teams.

For more rmatn, go to WrtlgMetro is a gay-iendly etyle wrtlg club. For more rmatn, go to New York Gay Football LeagueThe NYGFL is a seven-on-seven LGBT flag-football league wh approximately 200 participants and 18 teams open to players at all levels of abily.

For more rmatn, go to York Cy Gay Basketball LeagueThere are six divisns for this LGBT basketball league: men's and women's A, B and begner squads. For more rmatn, go to Gay Hockey AssociatnThe NYCGHA offers several teams for htg the ice pendg on your skill level. You might also likeGreat walks 2012Chelsea PiersInterview: David WrightSee more Gay & Lbian.

FIND YOUR NEAREST GAY & INCLUSIVE RUGBY CLUB.

Wh lots of new Gay & Inclive Rugby Clubs settg up across the globe each year, ’s more and more likely that you live close enough to one to get volved wh and enjoy all kds of gby – regardls of your genr, sexualy, ethnicy, relign, size or gby the Map Search below or scroll through the Global Club Listgs lower down this page to fd an IGR club. No, clad a teal wig and a gold lamé drs, he was performg drag at a gay bar Hell’s Kchen as part of a team fund-raiser. The team’s existence fi long-held stereotyp of gay men and provis a safe venue for gay athlet to be themselv and build muny.

Jeff Wilson, chairman of Internatnal Gay Rugby, which has 55 member clubs om 15 untri, said that is a signifint reason clubs like Gotham are important, even tolerant ci like New York.

“By havg teams that are gay and clive, they n change their lol environment jt by beg who they are, ” he said. Many of the Knights are not gay and some, like Clark Bun, joed the team unaware that many of the players are. Bun was unfazed by jog a team of majory gay players.

Many of the Knights are not gay, cludg their pta, Clark Bun, who said playg on the team had ma him a signifint ally of the L.