We spoke to Bgham Cup 2022 print Jean-François Laberge and Internatnal Gay Rugby chair Karl Asugh-Gat about the upg tournament.
Contents:
- ‘IT WAS A SUCCS BEFORE WE STEPPED ON THE PCH’: HOW OTTAWA’S BGHAM CUP LIVERED FOR THE GAY AND CLIVE GBY MUNY
- RUGBY’S ‘GAY WORLD CUP’ BEGS SPORTS BOSS TO DCH TRANS ATHLETE BANS: ‘IT’S G SER HARM’
- INTERNATNAL GAY RUGBY PREPAR FOR BGHAM CUP
- WHAT MAK GAY GBY'S BGHAM CUP TOURNAMENT SO SPECIAL?
- WHAT MAK GAY GBY'S BGHAM CUP TOURNAMENT SO SPECIAL?
- ‘IT WAS A SUCCS BEFORE WE STEPPED ON THE PCH’: HOW OTTAWA’S BGHAM CUP LIVERED FOR THE GAY AND CLIVE GBY MUNY
‘IT WAS A SUCCS BEFORE WE STEPPED ON THE PCH’: HOW OTTAWA’S BGHAM CUP LIVERED FOR THE GAY AND CLIVE GBY MUNY
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Shortly after a handful of gby unn clubs for gay and bisexual men om the UK and USA had found the Internatnal Gay Rugby Associatn and Board (IGRAB) October 2000, The Washgton Renegas held an rmal, ternatnal, vatnal tournament at their home DC May 2001. As a gay man and regular gby player, Mark not only played for San Francis Fog but also helped to set up Gotham Knights New York Cy and was well known throughout the fledglg IGR was credibly shockg that jt three month’s followg the vatnal, Mark would loose his life the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks, onboard flight Uned October 2001, followg the 2001 vatnal, the San Francis Fog succsfully lobbied IGRAB for the right to put on a XVs gby tournament San Francis June tournament was fashned the style of the Rugby World Cup, wh both the tournament and cup prize named honor of Mark followg a unanimo cisn by all the members of IGRAB. Gay Village.
RUGBY’S ‘GAY WORLD CUP’ BEGS SPORTS BOSS TO DCH TRANS ATHLETE BANS: ‘IT’S G SER HARM’
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INTERNATNAL GAY RUGBY PREPAR FOR BGHAM CUP
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Once every two years, the gay and clive gby muny gathers for s biennial world champnships, better known as the Bgham Cup.
Organised by Internatnal Gay Rugby (IGR) and now among the largt amatr gby unn tournaments the world, the event’s two- history has seen pch up glamoro lotns rangg om London and New York Cy to Sydney and Amsterdam.
WHAT MAK GAY GBY'S BGHAM CUP TOURNAMENT SO SPECIAL?
"Until you're part of the Bgham Cup, you don't realise how big is," says Marc-Pl Stufkens, one of the anisers of the 'World Cup' of gay gby that will wele over 2000 players, ach, officials and supporters to Amsterdam this weekend. * bingham cup gay rugby *
This year, the petn was held Ottawa, which self boasts a vibrant LGBTQ+ muny and is also home to the Ottawa Wolv, one of the only gay and clive gby clubs Canada that lays claim to both a men’s and women’s si.
WHAT MAK GAY GBY'S BGHAM CUP TOURNAMENT SO SPECIAL?
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Bgham himself played for San Francis Fog, the first gay and clive gby club on Ameri’s wt ast, and helped to tablish New York’s Gotham Knights.
Acrdg to Amanda Mark, one of Bgham’s clost iends who travelled to Ottawa om Atralia for this year’s tournament and is also puttg her name to a women’s equivalent of the petn, he would have been “really thrilled” to see what the event has bee and how ntu to challenge stereotyp around what means to be gay.
‘IT WAS A SUCCS BEFORE WE STEPPED ON THE PCH’: HOW OTTAWA’S BGHAM CUP LIVERED FOR THE GAY AND CLIVE GBY MUNY
The Bgham Cup might be a hub of acceptance and clivy but the same nnot always be said of sport at large, where sual homophobia remas an issue at both a grassroots and profsnal level. In addn, 62 per cent of participants said that homophobia is more mon team sports than other parts of society.
Speakg about his own experience, Laberge says that upon realisg he was gay as a teenager he no longer felt team sports was an environment where he “uld be or belong”.
There also would have been global attentn on the Universy of Ottawa’s Ftx Hall, which durg Bgham Cup week hosted an ternatnal summ on transphobia and homophobia sport, a pertent subject at a time when anisatns such as World Rugby and the Internatnal Rugby League (IRL) have troduced transgenr guil that some wh the LGBT muny have cricised for beg discrimatory. The Bgham Cup is a biennial, ternatnal gby tournament celebratg gay and clive gby clubs. It was named honor of Mark Bgham who helped start two of the first premier gay gby clubs (the San Francis Fog and the Gotham Knights) and is ternatnally known as one of the hero of 9/11.