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Contents:

• MELBOURNE DOMAT TO W BGHAM CUP GAY GBY TLE
• MELBOURNE CHARGERS ACH HOP FOR A DAY WHEN THERE WILL BE NO NEED FOR GAY GBY CLUBS
• RUGBY ATRALIA STRIK ALLIANCE WH ATRALIA'S GAY AND CLIVE RUGBY CLUBS
• RUGBY ATRALIA FORMS ALLIANCE WH GAY RUGBY CLUBS
• THE BT GAY BARS MELBOURNE
• OPENLY GAY RUGBY PLAYER FEATURED IN RUGBY ATRALIA’S NEW #PARTOFMORE CAMPAIGN
• ISRAEL FOL'S MENTS HAD NO IMPACT ON THE FAH OF THIS GAY PACIFIC ISLANDS GBY PLAYER
• DISMANTLG STEREOTYP: 10 INSPIRG GAY RUGBY PLAYERS AND PERSONALI
• HEARD OF THE STEELERS? NO, NOT THEM, THE GAY GBY TEAM OM LONDON
• DISMANTLG STEREOTYP: 10 INSPIRG GAY RUGBY PLAYERS AND PERSONALI

MELBOURNE DOMAT TO W BGHAM CUP GAY GBY TLE

The Bgham Cup is the world champnship of gay Chargers, om Atralia, were 6-0 and did not allow a pot pool play. Our game agast Sydney was the fal challenge and we ma history today, " said Chargers pta Ia Mark Kendall Bgham Memorial Tournament is named after Mark Bgham, a gay gby player who died on Uned Flight 93 on Sept. The Nashville Grizzli gay gby team hosted the 2016 tournament and weled more than 1, 300 players and hundreds more spectators, ach and supporters to Nashville for a week of events leadg up the tournament self.

"The [Internatnal Gay Rugby] tste, board and muny would like to thank all of the participants, officials and supporters of the 2016 Bgham Cup. The Laird, Melbourne, is one of Atralia’s longt nng gay-owned and operated venu. Sce s humble begngs 1980, The Laird is now well regnised throughout the gay muny, both lol and ternatnal and like s 'sister-venu’ Club 80 and The Peel, remas a staple of the lol scene.

In 1998 The Laird and Club 80 were granted ‘Male-only’ stat by the Victorian Civil and Admistrative Tribunal (VCAT) ference to their history and service to the gay muny. The Laird went GAY. The hotel policy was to attract the element the gay muny that was tired of "Drag shows" and "Diss" and preferred to drk a hotel environment wh men.

MELBOURNE CHARGERS ACH HOP FOR A DAY WHEN THERE WILL BE NO NEED FOR GAY GBY CLUBS

Lol clubs terg for the mascule end of the gay muny ma their home. The 80’s tablished The Laird as the most famo "Mans hotel" Atralia and the 90’s further cemented gay culture.

The Laird beme known globally as the place for gay men to stay Melbourne. While many nsired this to be an impossible goal, The Laird put forward s se based on s long history of service to the gay muny and s posn as a social centre for Melbourne and visg gay men. The ADB regnised the importance of the hotel to the gay muny Melbourne and the excln was granted, the way for other venu future.

Still the home of VicBears and Melbourne Leather Men, the pub has also taken on the sponsorship of the Melbourne Chargers Rugby Unn Football Club, Victoria’s only gay gby club. Both nights were packed and uld not have been a better way to celebrate this grand old gentleman of the gay scene.

RUGBY ATRALIA STRIK ALLIANCE WH ATRALIA'S GAY AND CLIVE RUGBY CLUBS

To rema a iendly meetg place for gay men is still the primary foc. A landmark study on the e of homophobic language men’s muny sport has found tn mpaigns n by profsnal gby players did nothg to stop young players and their ach om mdlsly g words such as “fag” and “poof” team rults om Monash Universy, jt published the Brish Journal of Sports Medice, directly ntradict broadly accepted remendatns that this type of behavur n be rced through the formal livery of tn via vios or -person talks – a practice ed regularly different sports around the have also prompted Atralian gby officials and players to ll for more rourc to further addrs a “sport-wi” problem that is harmg LGBTQ+ youth numero Universy had ially set out to nduct a multi-sport study, however found Rugby Victoria to be the most willg and quantatively appropriate for the randomised ntrolled trial – the first to look at anti-homophobia tnal terventn livered by profsnal was unrtaken by every unr-18s and Colts (unr-20s) team Victoria, whose participants filled out surveys two weeks before and two weeks after players om the Melbourne Rebels Super Rugby team travelled around the state to liver the pre-trag survey, 55. 3% self-reported g homophobic language at least once over the prev two weeks and 77.

RUGBY ATRALIA FORMS ALLIANCE WH GAY RUGBY CLUBS

4% perceived teammat to have ed homophobic language. “Use of profsnal gby athlet to liver tn on homophobic language was not effective, ” the study reads. “Other approach to rce homophobic language [and other forms of discrimatn] such as peer-to-peer tn, and enforcement of polici prohibg specific language by ach, should be explored.

”The rults do dite that homophobia is not the primary driver behd the e of slurs, rather a means “to nform to the behavural norms gby” Erik Denison, lead thor on the paper tled ‘Effectivens of an tnal terventn targetg homophobic language e by young male athlet: a clter randomised ntrolled trial’, said the rults were “very disappotg”. “The rults are also hard to unrstand bee most young men we study, cludg the gby players, have posive attus towards gay people and would have no problem wh havg a gay player on their team, ” Denison said.

THE BT GAY BARS MELBOURNE

“The vast majory also said they would stop others om bullyg a gay teammate. Even more surprisg, more than half said they have close gay iends. Dpe all this, they are still g homophobic language, even after beg told by profsnal gby players that their behavur is very harmful and to stop.

“We aren’t jt talkg about them g phras like ‘that’s gay’. “Boys report hearg their ach and PE teachers g homophobic language as early as eight years old, and seems they start g this language to nform to the olr men and ga acceptance. ”Hay, who also spent several years achg Victoria’s gay and clive gby club, the Melbourne Chargers, forhadowed further work wh Monash Universy cludg targeted trag of ach, who “appear to be major fluencers on this”.

How do we do thgs on homophobic language if we don’t get assistance and help? where to fd gay iends melbourne?

OPENLY GAY RUGBY PLAYER FEATURED IN RUGBY ATRALIA’S NEW #PARTOFMORE CAMPAIGN

Where the heck do i go to atleast have one or a few gay or bi panns? For many kids growg up, the dream of playg sport is filled wh anxiety and fear that their sexualy will make them the victims of Hay has been volved gby and s admistratn for over 40 years, and has jt been appoted the director of the Melbourne is also the head ach of Melbourne's gay gby team, the Chargers.

The Melbourne Chargers formed 2009 wh the goal to create an environment where anyone terted playg gby uld do so an clive and safe and a number of other teams are part of the gay gby unn the formatn of the teams have been credibly important to givg gay and bi men the opportuny to play the sport, many hope that one day there will be no need for separate week the Atralian Rugby Unn officially announced s support for same-sex marriage, as did a number of other sport's erng bodi. (Supplied: Nila Hay)Sce the same-sex marriage mpaign began, Hay said he and his players had noticed a spike homophobic vilifitn. "I didn't have any real fears about whether they were straight or gay, but was que a fun sort of first trag ssn.

"There were que a few ments like 'aren't you worried about what people will say about you, aren't you worried that people will thk that you're gay'? "I tell them that there's no difference achg a gay team to a straight team, " he some people, cludg the lik of Tony Abbott, claim that the days of discrimatn agast LGBTIQ people Atralia are over, Hay said the "bad days" remaed ahead. "People are still showg prejudice agast homosexuals, " he said as far as he uld see, he did not thk he would ever leave the team.

ISRAEL FOL'S MENTS HAD NO IMPACT ON THE FAH OF THIS GAY PACIFIC ISLANDS GBY PLAYER

"'The guys always wanted to play, but were too aaid'Hay said was everyone's hope that eventually there would be no need for gay gby clubs, that eventually players would be accepted any club.

DISMANTLG STEREOTYP: 10 INSPIRG GAY RUGBY PLAYERS AND PERSONALI

"It don't matter whether you're straight, gay or otherwise, " he said. Melbourne Chargers will pete this Saturday the 'Bledisloe cup of gay gby', the Purchas Cup.

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

(Supplied: Melbourne Chargers)"They'd always wanted to play a sport, be volved sport, and gby was the first sport that they'd seen that gave them this safety of a gay gby club where they felt secure, " he said if someone who was gay wanted to jo a gby club, generally very ltle would happen to them, but there was always someone who "feels 's fun to have a b of banter. ""It empowers them to say 'you're a gay, you did that, you're a fag, ' whatever, " he said.

"Sport is one of those areas where even at school… if somebody knows they're gay, they don't want to be outed that environment, so they avoid . "Wh the gay muny, I unrstand that the cince of prsn and suici are way higher than the straight muny, " he said. '"On Saturday the Sydney Convicts, Melbourne Chargers, Brisbane Htlers and the New Zealand Falns will all pete the "Bledisloe cup of gay gby", the Purchas 15 Sep 2017Fri 15 Sep 2017 at 10:04pm, updated 16 Sep 2017Sat 16 Sep 2017 at 9:15am.

Rugby Atralia has stck a formal alliance wh Atralia’s four gay and clive Rugby Clubs and Internatnal Gay Rugby (IGR) wh the aim of growg Rugby participatn amongst the LGBTIQA+ muny Atralia.

DISMANTLG STEREOTYP: 10 INSPIRG GAY RUGBY PLAYERS AND PERSONALI

Wh a primary charter to grow the participatn rate of people playg Rugby the LGBTIQA+ muny, the Commtee will look to intify barriers and propose solutns to promote participatn, as well as tg the Rugby muny about the impact of homophobia on the safety and wellbeg of LGBTIQA+ participants. The Commtee will also look to strengthen and grow the existg four gay and clive Rugby Clubs – Sydney Convicts, Melbourne Chargers, Brisbane Htlers and Perth Rams – and support the velopment of new Clubs.