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• FROM HUMBLE BEGNGS, GAY BOWL ATTRACTS NFL SPONSORS AND TOUCH LIV
• GAY BOWL NATNAL TOURNAMENT HELD MURRAY PARK
• GAY BOWL XVIII FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT GETS SUPPORT OM DENVER BRONS
• THE KALEIDOSPE OF GAY BOWL XVIII
• NEW YORK WARRRS GAY BOWL TLE FENSE
• ‘THIS TEAM WAS JT HUNGRY’: D.C. FLAG FOOTBALL SQUAD PTUR GAY BOWL TLE
• GAY FLAG FOOTBALL GOAT ERIC REISSNER TALKS FOOTBALL, WS AND LOSS
• HAWAII WS BID TO HOST GAY BOWL SPORTG EVENT
• WANT A GAY SPORTS BAR TO WATCH SUPER BOWL LII? CHECK OUT OUR LIST.

FROM HUMBLE BEGNGS, GAY BOWL ATTRACTS NFL SPONSORS AND TOUCH LIV

“I me out when I was 24 or 25, ” Bryant tells CNN Sport of his cisn to live openly as a gay athlete about a year after endg his NFL pursu.

Now Bryant is back the sport as his te self, featured as the go-to receiver for the 2017 champn New York Warrrs at Gay Bowl, the annual tournament of the Natnal Gay Flag Football League.

“The petn has progrsively gotten better, ” says Davis, 41, a figurehead the league who tak the Warrrs’ qut to repeat as Gay Bowl tleholrs serly. Over the past 18 years Gay Bowl has grown om a three-team tournament played the dirt field of a Hollywood high school to a three-day event held rotatg ci boastg 35 sponsors, cludg Uned Airl, Fily Invtments, Sheraton Hotels and UPS.

GAY BOWL NATNAL TOURNAMENT HELD MURRAY PARK

Honolulu, fact, recently beat out bids om At and Toronto for the 2020 gam, while New York will host s send Gay Bowl next year. The New England Patrts were sponsors of last year’s Gay Bowl Boston, wh owner Robert Kraft speakg at the closg ceremony. For most of the 1, 000 or so participants of Gay Bowl, the long weekend reprents a rnn of iends and a celebratn of football – the sport they love, which many ways shaped their liv.

GAY BOWL XVIII FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT GETS SUPPORT OM DENVER BRONS

“The majory of my iends DC are the league, ” says Jam Santos of the Washgton Generals, a former Air Force enlistee who would go on to w this tournament playg receiver his fifth Gay Bowl. What would do wonrs for the perceptn of gay male athlet, Santos says, is to be reprented by a proment pro. He pots to Arizona State Universy signg openly gay high school football player My-Kg Johnson as a step forward.

It appears that football’s locker room culture – which nearly drove former Patrts offensive leman Ryan O’Callaghan to suici before g out – mt evolve for a gay superstar to emerge. Both prefer to play New York’s gay flag football league, rather than the ragtag gam they were a part of the cy.

“A lot of the leagu we’ve played have been ad hoc, you’ve seen fistfights, ” he adds, notg that the gay leagu “people get a ltle chippy om time to time wh petivens. Roberts says jog the New York Gay Football League – which wel “straight alli” on s webse – was by way of an unrstandg wh Davis.

THE KALEIDOSPE OF GAY BOWL XVIII

“If you’re a gay participant and you ve a straight player, you probably tst them to be open enough. It’s the openg morng of Gay Bowl XVIII and players on the vast green field on the outskirts of Denver are slow to get to a rhythm.

Playg his fourth Gay Bowl, the former Ivy Leaguer Allison is one of several straight quarterbacks the league, bee – jt like the NFL – good flag football quarterbacks are hard to fd. “We didn’t want a suatn where a ‘gay team’ would have 75 percent straight players, and they were the bt straight players high school or llege, and they would be rgers. “At the end of the day, you have a lot of gay men who say ‘I don’t re if he’s straight or not, I’m still gog to whoop his ass on the football field.

NEW YORK WARRRS GAY BOWL TLE FENSE

Not to be outdone, women have featured promently at the Gay Bowl sce their cln seven years ago. “It didn’t matter to me if was a straight league or a gay league, but happened to be what I found.

But the Fahrenhe’s team pta and quarterback adms she has received some ristance as a trans athlete petg the women’s divisn of Gay Bowl. “Bee they are gay men?

‘THIS TEAM WAS JT HUNGRY’: D.C. FLAG FOOTBALL SQUAD PTUR GAY BOWL TLE

We ve players and guts to to jo for an unfettable experience as we pete, nnect, and une at Gay Bowl XXIII Seattle celebratn of mararie, diversy, and the spir of sportsmanship! The Crowne Plaza-Seattle DowntownGay Bowl Rat: $224 per night (+ tax and fe).

The Gay Bowl XXIII food tcks and beer garn will be close by the field wh easy accs. October 5 – 8, 2023Gay Bowl XXIII Seattle is more than jt flag football, ’s so much is a celebratn of Seattle and all of the Pacific Northwt regn, where the evergreens of the Cas and Olympic mountas meet the ep blue of the Puget Sound and the Pacific Ocean, where bountiful plas and valleys meet directly wh morn technology and urban velopment, and where there is a long and rpected nnectn to the digeno people who first habed the lands well before European settlers found their own manift sty. Click any image to go to the Gay Bowl XXIII Swag Store.

GAY FLAG FOOTBALL GOAT ERIC REISSNER TALKS FOOTBALL, WS AND LOSS

The Gay Bowl XXIII anizers acknowledge that this tournament will occur on the homelands of the Coast Salish peopl, who ntue to steward the lands and waters as they have sce time immemorial.

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HAWAII WS BID TO HOST GAY BOWL SPORTG EVENT

Gay Bowl XXIII Organizg CommteeReach out to the dividual Organizg Commtee members by clickg their nam, or to the entire mtee by clickg here. This petn is a ltle different that all the players are 350 people makg up 19 teams om 16 different ci me to Murray Park to play the fal rounds of the eighth annual Gay Bowl Natnal Tournament. It's like the Super Bowl for the gay muny.

The annual Gay Bowl will return to Denver next week wh the support of the Denver Brons.

WANT A GAY SPORTS BAR TO WATCH SUPER BOWL LII? CHECK OUT OUR LIST.

The Natnal Gay Flag Football League has told Outsports that the Brons are supportg Gay Bowl as a lol muny improvement event, and that the team’s foundatn is providg fancial support for the event. “To have the Brons on board helps to build credibily as we work on creatg impact and change wh the muny around gay athlet sports, ” NGFFL missner Thurman Williams told Outsports.

Last year the New England Patrts ntributed fancially to the Gay Bowl beg hosted Boston. In addn to fancial support, the Brons have ntributed rourc cludg an troductn to the lol Special Olympics, which will be part of Gay Bowl this year. As part of Gay Bowl XVIII, the DGLFFL has partnered wh the Denver regn of Special Olympics to host a special game on Saturday, Sept.