LIST | 5 Gay Rugby Stars Who Are Out And Proud - Ruck

Contents:

• HOW AMAZON PRIME’S GAY GBY DOCUMENTARY STEELERS PLETELY FLIPS THE DISURSE OF MASTREAM LGBTQ+ STORI
• HUNKY STAR OF GAY GBY MOVIE ‘IN FROM THE SI’ NFIRMS HE IS “NOT STRAIGHT”
• IRISH ACTOR FEATURG GAY GBY MOVIE OPENS UP ABOUT OVERG BULLYG
• IN FROM THE SI: THE GAY RUGBY DRAMA FLICK COMG TO A SCREEN NEAR YOU
• IN FROM THE SI - UPG MOVIE ABOUT A GAY GBY TEAM
• IN FROM THE SI REVIEW – GAY GBY DRAMA IS TOO SLOW ON S FEET
• DIRECTOR OF ACCLAIMED GAY GBY FILM IN OM THE SI ON MUD, SWEAT AND ‘IDT’ HOMOPHOB
• GAY GBY DRAMA ‘IN FROM THE SI’ SR UK THEATRIL AL (EXCLIVE)
• LIST | 5 GAY RUGBY STARS WHO ARE OUT AND PROUD

HOW AMAZON PRIME’S GAY GBY DOCUMENTARY STEELERS PLETELY FLIPS THE DISURSE OF MASTREAM LGBTQ+ STORI

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HUNKY STAR OF GAY GBY MOVIE ‘IN FROM THE SI’ NFIRMS HE IS “NOT STRAIGHT”

Dennis is a 28-year-old gay man who plays on a Wt Hollywood softball team wh his close, tty pals. Intertgly, this film was directed by gay producer Greg Berlanti (hband of gay soccer player Robbie Rogers) and stars actor John Mahoney who lived the glass closet until his 2017 ath.

It was also one of the only gay films durg s time not foced on homophobia and HIV.

The straight-washed trailer above only hts at the gay storyle buried this film’s send half. When Iceland’s bad-boy football star Ottar Thor out as gay, his entire life flat quicker than a punctured soccer ball. But when he’s given a choice to return to the pro-sports closet or start playg on a smaller gay lol team, Thor has to choose between a glamoro life or an thentic one.

IRISH ACTOR FEATURG GAY GBY MOVIE OPENS UP ABOUT OVERG BULLYG

The director, Michael Akers, -wrote the screenplay om terviews wh wheelchair-g gay men, and ’s one of the few films existence to al wh gay men and disabili.

IN FROM THE SI: THE GAY RUGBY DRAMA FLICK COMG TO A SCREEN NEAR YOU

As Conor’s teammat prsure him to abandon Ned, Ned fds himself creasgly sick of his school’s homophobic snobbery, brgg both boys to a breakg pot that uld end their iendship. Cocky and cunng Jason — played by gay actor Rsell Tovey— seems termed to get unr A’s earnt exterr.

Joy, celebratn, acceptance – Steelers has a place for everyone (Picture: Amazon Prime)The Kg’s Cross Steelers may not be a team on your radar, whether you’re gay or straight, but few clubs will have ma que the impact of the self-ma gby teamed found a north London pub 25 years ago. The film follows the Steelers as they make the biannual pilgrimage to the Bgham World Cup where, 25 years after the Steelers was formed, a further 60 clubs worldwi followed s lead, and now every two years they e together and battle out – savagely – the biggt gay gby tournament the world. As turned out, he soon found a new fay – a team of gay men om all walks of LGBTQ+ life wh a shared love, passn, and talent for the sport which many gay men have otherwise been exclud om.

The Kgs Cross Steelers attempt to w the gay gby world cup (Picture: Kgs Cross Steeelrs)‘I was lookg around the club and I realised wasn’t jt me who had felt this impact, was every sgle player.

IN FROM THE SI - UPG MOVIE ABOUT A GAY GBY TEAM

I was tryg to work out what was about gay gby that was so special and a benef for all the queer people – mental health benefs om sport and beg able to form a relatnship away om dgs and alhol as well as reclaimg that place on the sportg pch where we’re told we don’t belong. So often, when gay people are seen on screen, our stori are tragic – ath, disease, margalisatn, abe. Simon is a player who me out as gay his early 30s and Steelers talks ankly about his prsn after sperately supprsg his sexualy, clgg on to hope that wouldn’t matter.

He was more than a gay man, and uld clg onto the rt of him bee surely that would be enough and life, at the very least, would be bearable. Simon didn’t e out until his early 30s and his urage is celebrated Steelers (Picture: Kgs Cross Steelers)Eventually, he told his fay and iends he was gay but was jilted when he told a bt iend, who was straight, he was love wh him. If they ronate, not only wh gay viewers but all sexuali and genrs, and if people n see hope and see you belong to somethg then the story has much more of an impact than beg a niche gay film.

A msage perhaps particularly applible to gay men.

IN FROM THE SI REVIEW – GAY GBY DRAMA IS TOO SLOW ON S FEET

The “gay gby movie. Related: Get ready to fall love wh the handsome stars of gay gby drama ‘In From The Si’. Fans took to the ments to share their support for the actor and love of the film, but one lled to qutn s thenticy earlier this week, wrg, “I loved the movie and s actors are still very handsome but I still thk that the actors are posg as gay but they are not.

But wh Emmerdale behd him, hopefully that e Lln up to take on more excg gay projects like In From The Si the future.

'In om the Si' is the story of an adultero affair between two members of a fictnal South London gay gby club.

DIRECTOR OF ACCLAIMED GAY GBY FILM IN OM THE SI ON MUD, SWEAT AND ‘IDT’ HOMOPHOB

The film explor the multiple typ of nnectns that n occur wh a large group of gay men a team sports environment, illumatg the very real emotnal tensns and prsur this n create. The melancholic bgraphil drama, directed by acclaimed Brish filmmaker Terence Davi, don’t shy away om Sassoon’s queerns as hon on the bat veteran’s gay love affairs wh Ivor Novello (Jeremy Irve), Stephen Tennant (Calam Lynch) and Glen Byam Shaw (Tom Blyth), as well as his nversn to Catholicism. As he told GAY TIMES earlier this year, “I’ve been searchg for that remptn, and I haven’t found eher.

The first gay romantic edy om a major stud, Bros marked a historic moment for queer cema wh s prcipal LGBTQ+ st – even the heterosexual rol were played by actors of the LGBTQ+ experience. Followg Billy Eichner’s character Bobby Lieber as a podster and rad show host as he falls for a ‘masc4masc’ gay (played by Le Macfarlane), Bros is one of the most outrageoly funny edi of the year and is, thankfully, not straightwashed to appeal to cis-het dienc. From Bobby snappg a pic of his butt for a Grdr hook-up (who subsequently blocks him) to the two lead characters brgg the foot fetish dtry to the big screen, Bros is g-g-g-gay.

GAY GBY DRAMA ‘IN FROM THE SI’ SR UK THEATRIL AL (EXCLIVE)

Watchg Léo (En Dambre) distance himself om Rémi (Gtav Waele) as a rult of the homophobia of others is an excciatg watch, and the Belgian drama’s swch om buddy film to one about teen suici is equally as vastatg.

An homage to teen classics like Cel Intentns, Jawbreaker and Mean Girls, Netflix’s black edy Do Revenge immediately ptured the attentn of viewers – particularly Gay Twter – thanks to the bonkers twists, 90s-spired athetic and sapphic chemistry between leads Caa Mens and Maya Hawke.

Hailed by crics and viewers as an stant queer classic, Fire Island follows two bt iends (Joel Kim Booster and Bowen Yang) as they embark on their annual weeklong vatn to the tular gay hotspot. We received the gay gby drama we need and serve thanks to a Kickstarter mpaign and the visn of director/wrer and former gby ach Matt Carter.

LIST | 5 GAY RUGBY STARS WHO ARE OUT AND PROUD

In From The Si stars Emmerdale’s Alexanr Lln as Mark, an experienced new rec on the B team at a gay gby club who has a dnken enunter wh Warren (Alexanr Kg), the star player on the A team. Forbidn romance asi, In From The Si simply picts the liv of people who play gby together and jt-so happen to be gay. No homophobia.

In one of the year’s most pellg and raw performanc, Jeremy Pope stars The Inspectn as a Black gay man who be homels after his homophobic mother (played to perfectn by Gabrielle Unn) disowns him.

While the narrative feels faiar – a troubled person enters the ary, is celly targeted by a senr soldier, nsirs leavg but persever and feels more plete as a rult – The Inspectn’s emphasis on the Black LGBTQ+ experience and years of stutnalised homophobia the ary distcts self om others the same genre. To mark their 20th anniversary as the UK's first gay gby team, the Kgs Cross Steelers stipped down and posed for a new book to be published by die 'ze Meat. All the players were photographed by Meat's founr, Adrian, who started Meat 2010, said that he was "tired of the body shamg that go on wh the gay muny.