Vanuver Rogu First Gay Rugby Team Stagg A Comeback • Instct Magaze

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• VANUVER'S FIRST GAY AND CLIVE GBY TEAM IS BACK
• LIVGTOPICSALL LIVGSAVAGE LOVETRAVELASTROLOGYFROM THE VLTHEALTHSTYLELGBT+SEX & ROMANCEBT OF VANUVERTRANSPORATNCARTOONSHOMELS VANUVER LGBT+GAY FORMER GBY STAR BRENNAN BASTYOVANSZKY RECHARG VANUVER ROGU
• SOCIAL – GAY SPORTS GROUPS & ORGANIZATNS MY DAVIE VILLAGE
• VANUVER ROGU FIRST GAY RUGBY TEAM STAGG A COMEBACK
• ALL GAY GBY CLUB TAK THE ADVANTAGE

VANUVER'S FIRST GAY AND CLIVE GBY TEAM IS BACK

Brish ColumbiaThe Vanuver Rogu, first active 2002 to 2008, is back wh the hope of creatg a safe environment for people of different sexual orientatns and genr inti to enjoy the ntact Vanuver Rogu is recg players for a tournament next summerThe Vanuver Rogu gay and clive gby unn club, first found 2001, was revived early this year. (Ty Mart)Brennan Bastyovanszky, 42, has played gby sce childhood and lov the sport — except for what he scrib as the prevalence of homophobic language wh mastream clubs. So early this year, he helped revive the Vanuver Rogu, a gby club clive to players of all sexual orientatns and genr club secretary says he has heard a lot of homophobic language om teammat durg his 25 years as a gby player  B.

And the queer muny would have reprentatn the Bgham Cup, the world champnships of gay and clive gby, which will take place Ottawa next year. "There were even ocsns when I was nonted, physilly threatened by people on my own team, " said Bastyovanszky, who later joed the Sydney Convicts, which scrib self as the first gay and clive gby unn club Atralia. But ever sce I me out and found that gay gby has a huge followg...

Bastyovanszky revived the team after returng to Vanuver earlier this realized that the Bgham Cup, the biennial world champnships of gay and clive gby, was beg held Ottawa next Augt — and there wasn't a team reprentg the provce.

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

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"Canada a 'laggard' on homophobia sports, studi showOpnUnlike European sport, anti-gay sentiment still ns ep North Amerin leagu: Michael CorenLISTEN︱Brennan Bastyovanszky on why he revived the Vanuver Rogu gby club:Wh fil om The Early Edn.

The origal Rogu RFC (2002-2012) were trailblazers as the first openly gay/clive gby team all of Canada. Now, we pickup their torch and ntue their legacy; to brg clivens to one of the harst sports out there, to fight fight racism, transphobia, and homophobia; not only our sport and others, but across society general.

SOCIAL – GAY SPORTS GROUPS & ORGANIZATNS MY DAVIE VILLAGE

“At all of the clubs, was a mon and jt accepted practice to e homophobic language, ” Bastyovanszky, 42, told the Straight by phone. He’s gay. Although he loved the mararie of gby and the lifelong bonds he’s formed through the sport, he also said that beg gay was an extra burn on him mentally.

VANUVER ROGU FIRST GAY RUGBY TEAM STAGG A COMEBACK

“And I was always physilly aaid that if I me out or they found out I was gay, that I would be, like, physilly threatened or there would be physil vlence agast me. He joed Atralia’s first gay and clive gby team, the Sydney Convicts, and peted three tim for the Bgham Cup, which is known as the biennial world champnships of gay and clive first time was Manchter, England, 2012. “I was openly gay and playg the World Cup reprentg my [adopted] untry and we ultimately won, ” Bastyovanszky said.

”That’s bee he uld be fortable beg gay and playg gby. Bastyovanszky was later on a send World Cup–wng gay and clive gby team wh the Convicts.

Rugby, not sexualy, is what's importantA uple of months ago, Bastyovanszky and others cid to revive the Vanuver Rogu, which was Canada's first gay and clive gby team back 2001 before disbandg said that the Bgham Cup is the largt 15-a-si tournament the world, wh more than 1, 000 registered players reprentg more than two dozen untri. Is the cultural heart of gby Canada and has a huge gay populatn, ” he said. Acrdg to Bastyovanszky, they are gay and straight or they “haven’t cid yet”.

ALL GAY GBY CLUB TAK THE ADVANTAGE

”Homophobic language is not wele. Not only is that appealg to gay players who may have experienced trma the past om sports, but he said also ronat wh straight players who have backgrounds gby and other sports. Straight and gay players play together on the Vanuver Rogu an atmosphere ee of homophobia.

Captas n help turn the tiRurrectg the Vanuver Rogu thrills Erik Denison, a former Vanuver journalist who nducts rearch at Monash Universy Atralia about ways to end discrimatory language a phone terview wh the Straight, Denison poted out that UBC has been one of the “world pneers” intifyg the harmful nsequenc of homophobia an example, Denison ced a study—led by Elizabeth Saewyc of UBC’s school of nursg and supported by the McCreary Centre Society—that found that gay boys play team sports at only half the rate of straight work enabled his team of rearchers to obta fundg om the Atralian ernment and the You Can Play project to look at fdg solutns. “There hasn’t been one published study of an terventn to stop homophobia sport, whereas wh school bullyg, there have been hundreds of studi” Denison rearch, however, has unvered that ptas of var sports teams beme very ncerned about homophobia when they were shown data about LGBT+ suici rat, as well as the low participatn rate of gay kids sports.

Bee ptas play a cril role termg a team’s culture, Denison and other rearchers, cludg some at UBC, are hopg to activate them to stop beg bystanrs to homophobia. “Homophobia sport isn’t beg driven by hate of gay people, ” Denison sisted.