Irish Film About Young Gay Rugby Player To Screen At New York Film Ftival • GCN

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• DIRECTOR OF ACCLAIMED GAY GBY FILM IN OM THE SI ON MUD, SWEAT AND ‘IDT’ HOMOPHOB
• A NEW DOCUMENTARY EXPLOR THE LIV AND ROMANC OF GAY RUGBY PLAYERS
• DISMANTLG STEREOTYP: 10 INSPIRG GAY RUGBY PLAYERS AND PERSONALI
• 10 GAY RUGBY PLAYERS WHO MA THEIR COME OUT
• IRISH FILM ABOUT YOUNG GAY RUGBY PLAYER TO SCREEN AT NEW YORK FILM FTIVAL

DIRECTOR OF ACCLAIMED GAY GBY FILM IN OM THE SI ON MUD, SWEAT AND ‘IDT’ HOMOPHOB

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A NEW DOCUMENTARY EXPLOR THE LIV AND ROMANC OF GAY RUGBY PLAYERS

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The straight-washed trailer above only hts at the gay storyle buried this film’s send half. When Iceland’s bad-boy football star Ottar Thor out as gay, his entire life flat quicker than a punctured soccer ball. But when he’s given a choice to return to the pro-sports closet or start playg on a smaller gay lol team, Thor has to choose between a glamoro life or an thentic one.

DISMANTLG STEREOTYP: 10 INSPIRG GAY RUGBY PLAYERS AND PERSONALI

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10 GAY RUGBY PLAYERS WHO MA THEIR COME OUT

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IRISH FILM ABOUT YOUNG GAY RUGBY PLAYER TO SCREEN AT NEW YORK FILM FTIVAL

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F(l)ag Football is a 2015 Amerin documentary film on the Natnal Gay Flag Football League directed by Seth Greenleaf. It documents the trag of players on the NGFFL’s New York Warrrs team as they prepare for the Gay Bowl. Guys and Balls (German: Männer wie wir, lerally Men like , UK tle: Balls) is a 2004 sports edy/romance film by German Amerin director Sherry Hormann about a gay goalkeeper who assembl a gay-only soccer team to play agast his ex-team, which fired him due to beg gay.

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