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Contents:
- MATCHUP OF TWO OPENLY GAY SKIPS AT BRIER A W FOR CLIVY SPORTS
- CANADA’S GAY CURLG LEAGU TAKE PRI ON ICE
- CANADIAN GAY CURLG CHAMPNSHIPS
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
MATCHUP OF TWO OPENLY GAY SKIPS AT BRIER A W FOR CLIVY SPORTS
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The Rotators Curlg League is the olst gay and lbian curlg league\ the untry.
CANADA’S GAY CURLG LEAGU TAKE PRI ON ICE
Wdy Cy Tim News - TORONTO, Ont. - It's bt scribed as chs on ice and, boy, do they love curlg here—pecially the LGBT muny. Gay curlg has existed lolly sce 1962, when a handful of curlers started playg. It has * toronto gay curling *
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CANADIAN GAY CURLG CHAMPNSHIPS
It has been over five years sce curler John Eppg told fay, iends, and peers his sport's muny that he was gay. He said he has received plenty of support sce. * toronto gay curling *
13, 2016VANCOUVER, Brish Columbia — It happens all the time: Young gay people leave their small towns and head to the big cy, where they n fd love, acceptance and, Canada at least, a curlg league to ll their own. “When I walked down the street, I was the entire gay pri para, ” said Mr.
Enan, a movg to Vanuver, he joed the gay Pacific Rim Curlg League, which this year marched the Vanuver gay pri para, rryg brooms and wearg shirts that proclaimed, “I swept wh your hband.
”Canada has for s been at the foreont of gay rights, legalizg homosexual activy, openly gay ary service and same-sex marriage long before the Uned Stat and other Wtern mocraci did. This summer, Jt T beme the first stg Canadian prime mister to march a gay pri Tta for The New York TimGay curlg leagu have blossomed recent s, highlightg a distctly Canadian aspect of morn gay life.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
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The untry’s olst gay curlg league, Rotators, was started Toronto 1962 and went publicly gay six years later. “They were the flight attendants of the railway, ” said Murray Leang, the print of Rotators and Riverdale, the natn’s largt gay curlg league, prisg 56 has 12 gay curlg leagu wh hundreds of four-member teams.
) Tta for The New York TimMark Trowell, 51, a human rourc manager, who was on the wng team at this year’s Canadian Gay Curlg Champnships, said the sport’s civily had sometim creased as the petn had bee fiercer. Until a few years ago, the leagu relied on sponsors that provid nsirably ls lucrative priz, like flashlights, hand blenrs or ’s gay curlg leagu wele players of any sexualy or genr. Heather Kisbee, 57, an executive assistant, joed the Pacific Rim league five years ago wh a few female iends, though she failed to tell them that most of the participants were gay until one of the women remarked excedly on the large number of good-lookg men.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
”Inclivens go both ways, said Jack Holm, 53, a theater facili manager whose team of gay players has twice won mastream league tournaments. “The men get really ser, particularly if they’re playg , bee we’re openly gay, ” he said. Holm add, rellg a rogatory ment ma a locker room eight years many enthiasts, gay curlg tly h the mastream 2010 when Mr.
T attend the first bonspiel held by the gay curlg league Halifax, Nova Stia. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 1 of the New York edn wh the headle: Canada’s Gay Curlg Teams Take Pri on Ice.
Toronto’s gay curlg leagu provi people of all orientatns wh a unique and iendly way to beat the wter blu. Sce 1962, gay curlers have been enjoyg the sport growg numbers.