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• LESTER’S NICK MCCARTHY OUT AS GAY AND THANKS CLUB FOR THEIR SUPPORT
• GAY AND CLIVE GBY'S BGHAM CUP TO MANCHTER
• HEARD OF THE STEELERS? NO, NOT THEM, THE GAY GBY TEAM OM LONDON
• CLONEZONE: REWARD OFFERED OVER GAY VILLAGE SHOP ATTACKS
• JOG THE WORLD'S FIRST GAY GBY TEAM CHANGED MY LIFE. SO I MA A FILM ABOUT
• LIVGTOPICSALL LIVGSAVAGE LOVETRAVELASTROLOGYFROM THE VLTHEALTHSTYLELGBT+SEX & ROMANCEBT OF VANUVERTRANSPORATNCARTOONSHOMELS VANUVER LGBT+GAY FORMER GBY STAR BRENNAN BASTYOVANSZKY RECHARG VANUVER ROGU
• MANCHTER SR A GAY GBY TRIUMPHMANCHTER HAS BEATEN SYDNEY TO THE RIGHT TO HOST THE 2012 GAY GBY WORLD CUP. THE TOURNAMENT WILL VOLVE 1,000 PLAYERS AND N OVER THREE DAYS AT THE HOME OF BROUGHTON PARK RUGBY CLUB AT HOUGH END CHORLTON CUM HARDY.MENBOOKMARKSHARENEWSBYMANCHTER EVENG NEWS12:03, 1 OCT 2010UPDATED05:55, 18 JAN 2013BOOKMARKMATT WHELEY, WHO PLAYS FOR THE SPARTANS SAID: “WE ARE ABSOLUTELY OVER THE MOON. IT WAS REALLY TIGHT BUT WE GOT THE CISN THE END. IT SHOULD BE FANTASTIC.”SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY NEWSLETTER TO GET THE DAY'S BIGGT STORI SENT DIRECT TO YOUR BOXMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY NEWSLETTER TO GET THE DAY'S BIGGT STORI SENT DIRECT TO YOUR BOXINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!

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

Whether you’re an experienced player lookg to return to gby or a total begner, lookg to give gby a try, Manchter Village Spartans RUFC, based at Sale Sports Club, have a place for you at our pneerg, Gay and Inclive Rugby Unn and Touch Rugby the world’s send-ever LGBT+ Rugby Club and a foundg member of Internatnal Gay Rugby (IGR) we’ve helped hundreds of LGBTQ+ and straight players disver, or return, to gby by promotg the sport through projects such as Comic Relief’s Try For Change or England Rugby’s Spir of 2012 and we ntue to rec players regardls of their genr, sexualy or gby don’t have to be gay to be a Spartan. More specifilly, a gby team - but one that would be for men who intified as gay or bisexual. But the lads cid to give a try and hand out some leaflets the Gay Village.

Manchter Village Spartans RUFC was set up and the world's send gay Rugby Unn team was born. "I don't know whether anyone imaged jt how huge the gay gby movement would bee bee of clubs like the Spartans.

They helped tablish the worldwi gay and clive gby phenomenon and are still helpg to grow the sport. I heard about the club om workg wh a lleague the police who was openly out and gay", Dean said.

GAY AND CLIVE GBY'S BGHAM CUP TO MANCHTER

The club hosted the 'Bgham Cup' - rmally known as the Gay Rugby World Cup - Manchter 2012. 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. 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. The world champnships of gay and clive gby e to Manchter this weekend, and the cy's own Village Spartans hope to do well the biggt event of s kd so 'll be tacklg sis such as the New York Gotham Knights, the current holrs of the champnship's trophy, the Bgham Cup, which is named after the gay gby player Mark Bgham who died on 9/11 Uned flight 93, the hijacked plane which crashed Pennsylvania after passengers fought than 30 clubs om 15 untri are volved the event, wh 1500 players and loyal fans already booked .

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

Manchter has had s eye on the Bgham Cup for some while, biddg to host back July 2010 and gettg persuasive supporters wh the game on clu former Brish Lns and Wal pta Gareth Thomas who will host the event's gala dner, and Ben Cohen, the former England gby World Champn player, who has been a stnch advote for gay and clive teams wh the sport. Manchter has one of the largt gay muni the UK and is a te sportg cy every sense of the word. Niamh LewisMar 1, 2021, 09:52 AM ETWhen Eammon Ashton-Atkson, an Atralian televisn reporter, cid to film his gby club as they went to the biannual Bgham Cup 2018, he uld never have imaged the posive reactn a documentary about would film Steelers is about London-based Kgs Cross Steelers, the world's first gay gby club and one of over 60 such sis world-wi.

Although the stori the film are related to the stggl of g out, prsn, and a history of bullyg for beg gay, they're are told a way which wir dienc n empathise wh. "It's a story about a gay gby club, but 's also a story about human stggle, and people g sport and their sense of muny to help each other, which is universal, " Ashton-Atkson told ESPN.

CLONEZONE: REWARD OFFERED OVER GAY VILLAGE SHOP ATTACKS

"She's got a certifite for the hight achg level, and sce she left the Steelers she's been nsistently overlooked and not even shortlisted [for jobs] than men who are ls qualified and ls experienced than her, which is heart-breakg and disgtg, " Ashton-Atkson beg gay 2021 wtern society is often unremarkable today, you don't have to go back very far to fd trmatic stori. "But, if 's easier to e out now, then why do we need gay gby clubs? "That's a thought that do go through your md, and while 's generally a posive there are still pockets of homophobia.

JOG THE WORLD'S FIRST GAY GBY TEAM CHANGED MY LIFE. SO I MA A FILM ABOUT

Then, 2019, Atralia's Israel Fol spouted his famo anti-gay ments on Instagram, sayg "hell awas" gay opened the drawer and started the ed aga om scratch, and turned to the unnventnal documentary has bee. "Wh beg gay, you don't thk that I grew up sperately wantg to change my sexualy, like, wishg the gay away? They were dubbed the tabloids as 'Harlequeens, ' there was homophobic ments, and a fear over ntractg HIV and AIDS.

"For those of who grew up when wasn't ok to be gay, jt really before the ter was mon, there was huge stigma. You had Margaret Thatcher's Sectn 28 [a law brought the UK by a Conservative ernment om 1988-2003 to the "prohib the promotn of homosexualy"], misnceptns about the HIV vis, " Ashton-Atkson explas.

LIVGTOPICSALL LIVGSAVAGE LOVETRAVELASTROLOGYFROM THE VLTHEALTHSTYLELGBT+SEX & ROMANCEBT OF VANUVERTRANSPORATNCARTOONSHOMELS VANUVER LGBT+GAY FORMER GBY STAR BRENNAN BASTYOVANSZKY RECHARG VANUVER ROGU

"For those guys who were settg up that team 1995, they were real trailblazers bee they were gog out to different teams Essex week--week out smashg down stereotyp one game of gby at a time and om what I heard, the men Essex, they had never met an openly gay man before, let alone an openly gay sportsman. However, "There are still issu wh homophobia and homophobic language beg ed on the pch. "And one of the thgs we've been workg on wh Harlequs and Monash Universy is that a lot of that isn't actually homophobia, 's the culture of clubs, the challeng of languag not beg followed through.

MANCHTER SR A GAY GBY TRIUMPHMANCHTER HAS BEATEN SYDNEY TO THE RIGHT TO HOST THE 2012 GAY GBY WORLD CUP. THE TOURNAMENT WILL VOLVE 1,000 PLAYERS AND N OVER THREE DAYS AT THE HOME OF BROUGHTON PARK RUGBY CLUB AT HOUGH END CHORLTON CUM HARDY.MENBOOKMARKSHARENEWSBYMANCHTER EVENG NEWS12:03, 1 OCT 2010UPDATED05:55, 18 JAN 2013BOOKMARKMATT WHELEY, WHO PLAYS FOR THE SPARTANS SAID: “WE ARE ABSOLUTELY OVER THE MOON. IT WAS REALLY TIGHT BUT WE GOT THE CISN THE END. IT SHOULD BE FANTASTIC.”SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY NEWSLETTER TO GET THE DAY'S BIGGT STORI SENT DIRECT TO YOUR BOXMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY NEWSLETTER TO GET THE DAY'S BIGGT STORI SENT DIRECT TO YOUR BOXINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!

The gay gby story reads like a fay tree, wh births, name chang, divorc and sadly aths. It was on 1st November 1995 that a small group of gay men met the Central Statn pub near Kg’s Cross, North London, UK to discs the formatn of the world’s first OFFICIALLY regnised Gay Rugby is here where our story begs…….

World’s 1st Gay Rugby Club Found. London, England, UK – Six gay men meet at the Central Statn pub the Kg’s Cross area of North London and agree to form a gby club for gay and bisexual ’s Cross Steelers, the world’s first officially registered gay gby club is “Steelers” part of the name me about bee many of the club’s founr members were keen fans of Amerin Steelers’ claim to the tle of the “world’s first gay gby club” is based on the fact that South Ai’s Jamion Rairs (found 1985) are an annual vatn team, rather than a registered club playg seasonal fixtur. Wellgton, New Zealand – World’s first gay gby match tak place between Wellgton Krazy Knights & Ponsonby Hero.

World’s 1st Gay Rugby (Unn Co) match.