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Contents:

• DISMANTLG STEREOTYP: 10 INSPIRG GAY RUGBY PLAYERS AND PERSONALI
• GAY CHILE, THE BT PLAC OF THE LONGT UNTRY THE WORLD
• LESTER’S NICK MCCARTHY OUT AS GAY AND THANKS CLUB FOR THEIR SUPPORT

DISMANTLG STEREOTYP: 10 INSPIRG GAY RUGBY PLAYERS AND PERSONALI

In this article, we’ll name ten of the most notable gay gby personali, analyze their acplishments, discs how they are shapg the game today, and asss their impact on the overall perceptn of homosexual profsnal athlet around the world. That beg said, due to s physily, gby is regard as a “manly” sport, which mak more difficult for gay players to publicly acknowledge their preference.

This is one of the ma reasons why reprentativ of World Rugby met wh the lears of Internatnal Gay Rugby (IGR) to help eradite homophobia and tolerance om the game. Currently a Wakefield Try prop, Hirst has bee one of the most notable gay athlet, earng himself a startg role after signg a ntract wh the League si 2016. The Mark Kendall Bgham Memorial Tournament, simply known as the Bgham Cup, is a biennial gay gby unn tournament which was held for the first time 2002.

Thomas publicly me out 2009 and has sce scribed his experience as a secretly gay player, revealg how the social prsure and stereotyp pose a signifint challenge for many athlet today. The Welshman is also a TV personaly and a voted activist for the LGBT e, wng “Gay Sports Personaly of the De” at the Stonewall awards ceremony London back 2015. Daytime trips to Bombero will grant you street art and morn galleri terspersed wh a number of hip bnch spots, while nighttime se buzzg gay bars and clubs e alive and the streets flow wh liberal mds lookg for fun.

GAY CHILE, THE BT PLAC OF THE LONGT UNTRY THE WORLD

Alternatively, follow the land’s datit birds to the Los Flamens Natnal Rerve, where the rint flamgos pat the landspe nightlife the regn, San Pedro is your bt bet and while the San Pedro Atama gay scene is not huge, you’ll likely fd a gay-iendly atmosphere at any of the bars dotted about town. Most plac are mixed and clive, but for LGBT-centred fun, check out pagan-themed bar Mana and Br Pop-playg Másra before fishg the night at Pagano or Club Delir, Valpo’s top two gay clubs.

At any other time, jo the high rollers a Viña’s imprsive art so, makg a night of on the dancefloor of Club Divo, the famo Viña l mar gay club; one of the largt gay clubs Lat Ameri wh multiple rooms and a fun-lovg crowd. As a rult, has tradnally rerced an orthodox form of twentieth-century masculy that is lked to those who are whe, middle class, able-bodied, and, most important to this analysis, heterosexual (Symons, 2009) is now wily regnized, however, that twenty-first-century sport is a social stutn that shap and impacts upon the liv of gay and lbian athlet too. Sce soclogist first began to qutn the role that sport plays the productn and reproductn of mascule inty the mid-1980s (Dunng, 1986), there was a slow progrsn om examg sport as a se of male ntrol over women, to regnizg the tersectn between sport and sexualy that rults om the largely heteronormative and homophobic culture of profsnal sport the 1990s and the first of the twenty-first century (Rowe, Markwell, & Stevenson, 2006) was this hospable perd of time that gave rise to sexual orientatn-segregated sportg spac for gay men.

The Gay Gam, while spired by the Olympic Gam, were troduced to foster cln rponse to the “apparent racism, sexism, natnalism, homophobia and elism” prent the mastream gam (Symons, 2009, p.

LESTER’S NICK MCCARTHY OUT AS GAY AND THANKS CLUB FOR THEIR SUPPORT

Begng San Francis 1982, the Gay Gam have been held every four years sce that date and have grown to be a signifint sportg, cultural, and human rights mega-event.