10 Gay Rugby Players Who Ma Their Come Out - Disver Walks Blog

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• THE NORTH EAST'S ONLY GAY GBY TEAM HOSTS THE HADRIAN CUP
• GAY RUGBY LEAGUE PLAYER SAYS HE'S SEEN MUCH 'GAYER' THGS IN SPORTS CHANGG ROOMS
• LIST | 5 GAY RUGBY STARS WHO ARE OUT AND PROUD
• THE BEST NEWSTLE UPON TYNE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS NEWSTLE UPON TYNE
• YOU THK GAY GUYS N'T PLAY SPORT? THK AGA; LAST YEAR, REPORTER CHRIS ROBSON JOED THE NEWSTLE RAVENS, THE NORTH EAST'S ONLY GAY GBY TEAM. HERE HE EXPLAS HOW THE TEAM IS BREAKG THROUGH THE STEREOTYP - ON AND OFF THE PCH - ABOUT WHO N AND N'T PLAY SPORT.
• LIST | 5 GAY RUGBY STARS WHO ARE OUT AND PROUD
• LESTER’S NICK MCCARTHY OUT AS GAY AND THANKS CLUB FOR THEIR SUPPORT
• LIST | 5 GAY RUGBY STARS WHO ARE OUT AND PROUD
• 10 GAY RUGBY PLAYERS WHO MA THEIR COME OUT
• NEWSTLE GAY CISE CLUBS
• DISMANTLG STEREOTYP: EIGHT INSPIRG GAY RUGBY PLAYERS AND PERSONALI
• HEARD OF THE STEELERS? NO, NOT THEM, THE GAY GBY TEAM OM LONDON
• GAY NEWSTLE
• NEWSTLE GAY CISE CLUBS

THE NORTH EAST'S ONLY GAY GBY TEAM HOSTS THE HADRIAN CUP

The North East’s only gay gby team, Newstle Ravens RFC will host the annual Hadrian Cup this weekend, wh gay gby players om across Great Bra g to the regn for the three day om England, Stland and Ireland will fight out at Percy Park, the Newstle Ravens home ground, for the trophy. Newstle Ravens RFC was tablished 2006 to enurage gay people to enjoy the sport and to troduce new players to the sport. The team currently has a mix of gay and straight members, playg both lol rivals the North East and gay teams om around the McKane, Chairman of Newstle Ravens RFC, mented:The tournament this year is beg anised partnership wh the Northumbria Police ‘Beg you is not a crime’ mpaign.

A former English gby league star has rpond to the recent LGBTQIA+ jersey saga engulfg the Manly Sea ex-player Keegan Hirst says 's rather ironic that the group are boyttg wearg the pri k bee he's seen 'what go on changg rooms' and 'would be seen as beg MUCH gayer' than simply wearg a rabow jersey for a AlamyThe Manly Sea Eagl have ma headl across the world this week after releasg their 'Everyone League' jersey – unfortunately, though, wasn't for the right was meant to be a posive move to drive clivy soon turned sour when several players threatened to boytt their next game after refg to wear the club’s rabow Aloiai, Jason Saab, Christian Tuipulotu, Josh Schter, Hmole Olak’atu, Tolut Koula and Toafofoa Sipley have been named as the players qutn and will subsequently miss their next fixture after beg stood down on relig saga hasn't pated anyone volved a particularly pleasant light wh both the players and the club self g unr fire.

A number of big-name figur have had their say on the matter, cludg the NRL's first and only openly-gay player Ian Hirst, who me out as gay 2015 durg his time the UK Super League, has h out at the Sea Eagl players.

GAY RUGBY LEAGUE PLAYER SAYS HE'S SEEN MUCH 'GAYER' THGS IN SPORTS CHANGG ROOMS

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LIST | 5 GAY RUGBY STARS WHO ARE OUT AND PROUD

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THE BEST NEWSTLE UPON TYNE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS NEWSTLE UPON TYNE

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YOU THK GAY GUYS N'T PLAY SPORT? THK AGA; LAST YEAR, REPORTER CHRIS ROBSON JOED THE NEWSTLE RAVENS, THE NORTH EAST'S ONLY GAY GBY TEAM. HERE HE EXPLAS HOW THE TEAM IS BREAKG THROUGH THE STEREOTYP - ON AND OFF THE PCH - ABOUT WHO N AND N'T PLAY SPORT.

But most of the players are gay.

When I tell other guys I play for a gay gby team, there's. breakg down the stereotyp portrayed the media that all gay men. alternative to Newstle's "party hard" gay scene.

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LIST | 5 GAY RUGBY STARS WHO ARE OUT AND PROUD

Not all gay men like.

gay and straight men?

gay guy if wasn't for that.

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

prove that gay men aren't jt a bunch of pansi. It has ma a big difference to people's liv: some gay men. don't have a lot of gay male iends.

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The biggt event the gay gby world is the Bgham Cup, which. host the 2009 European gay gby Unn Cup welg more than 17 teams. Gay teams are also weled by the RFU.

LIST | 5 GAY RUGBY STARS WHO ARE OUT AND PROUD

HOMOPHOBIA EXCLUDES TALENT. often homophobic, makg hard for players to be themselv.

gay men, but also the ia of who uld, and should, be succsful at. "It's also about showg that gay men are actually very. "I thk playg for a gay team would give them the.

10 GAY RUGBY PLAYERS WHO MA THEIR COME OUT

But sport was often a barrier between gay and straight men. Homophobia impacts who.

NEWSTLE GAY CISE CLUBS

stamp out homophobia Brish football.

The Nottgham Fort player was the first openly gay footballer. njunctn wh Stonewall and the Gay Football Supporters Network, are.

fightg anti-gay prejudice on the terrac, lookg to stamp out the. refed to mark, there are still no openly gay profsnal players or. ed outrage when he said: "There are no gays football".

DISMANTLG STEREOTYP: EIGHT INSPIRG GAY RUGBY PLAYERS AND PERSONALI

an anti-gay tira. 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. The Lester scm-half Nick McCarthy has e out as gay, and thanked ach Leo Cullen and Stuart Lanster for their “unbelievable” support.

I need to accept beg gay myself before I uld addrs wh others.

HEARD OF THE STEELERS? NO, NOT THEM, THE GAY GBY TEAM OM LONDON

Photograph: Ryan Byrne/Inpho/ShutterstockFellow Lester player Dunne revealed his bisexualy last year, around the same time Nassib announced he was gay and a few months before Atralian Cavallo ma headl across the world by sharg his news. Last month, Blackpool’s Jake Daniels beme the first UK-based male footballer to e out as gay sce 1990. England Sevens ternatnal Sam Stanley beme the first English profsnal gby unn player to publicly e out as gay Augt 2015.

GAY NEWSTLE

Rugby is one of the most loved sports the world and due to s physily, is regard as a “manly” sport, which mak more difficult for gay players to publicly acknowledge their preference. The players have bee a bean of light bee they overme stereotyp and other challeng faced by homosexual athlet way too often.

Nigel Owens, one of the bt refere the world, is openly gay and has been vol about how the gby world has been hugely acmodatg. It is the sport’s rponsibily to posively promote anti-homophobia, and anti-bullyg general, so that the majory of people who are acceptg have a lour voice than those who prott. In this article, we’ll look at 10 Gay Rugby Players and how they are shapg the game today.

In the gby world, he tak cred as the very first high-profile player to ever e out to the public as gay. After his Saturday afternoon on the pch, is reported that Roberts would spend Saturday night on Oxford Street, Sydney’s gay quarter. His brave actn saw other gay gby players g out publicly to nfs their sexual orientatn.

NEWSTLE GAY CISE CLUBS

Followg the footsteps of Ian Roberts who may have been the first high-profile player to openly adm beg gay, Keegan Hirst was arguably the first ever to do while still actively playg gby. Currently a Wakefield Try prop, Hirst has bee one of the most notable gay athlet, earng him a startg role after signg a ntract wh the League si 2016. In an terview wh the Sunday Mirror, the now divorced father of two and self-nfsed gay tells of the moment he fally found the words to expla to his wife the reason they uld no longer be together.

Sam Stanley beme the first openly gay Rugby Unn and Sevens player the UK 2015. He fends himself by sayg, “Millns of people are the suatn, even people who have been Lrence’s (his partner) suatn and they are still married but are gay.