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Kgs Cross Steelers – foundg chairman Robert Hayward reflects on the Steelers' vast fluence ahead of a new film about the world's first gay gby club

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STEELERS: THE WORLD'S FIRST GAY RUGBY CLUB

Steelers: The World's First Gay Rugby Club: Directed by Eammon Ashton-Atkson. Wh Steve Brockman, Simon Dunn, Nic Evans, Simon Jon. Told through the ey of an Atralian televisn reporter who moved to the UK to pe prsn, we learn that sometim you n fd happs where you least expect. We follow the journey of 3 characters the club: the lbian ach fightg misogyny, even the gay world. The semi-pro player who spiraled to a prsn after his g out didn't go as planned. And the prop who disvered he was a drag queen through the club." data-id="ma * steelers the world's first gay rugby club *

We follow the journey of 3 characters the club: the lbian ach fightg misogyny, even the gay worl...

We follow the journey of 3 characters the club: the lbian ach fightg misogyny, even the gay world.

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

The world’s first gay gby club, the Kgs Cross Steelers, celebrat s 20th anniversary. * steelers the world's first gay rugby club *

BunjanMay 19, 2021Contribute to this pageSuggt an ed or add missg ntentWhat is the English language plot outle for Steelers: The World's First Gay Rugby Club (2020)? The former Wallabi prop scribed a moment when he was drivg recklsly, the feelg of “ath felt preferable to anybody disverg [he] was gay. Not jt any gby club, the world’s first gay gby club, the Kgs Cross Steelers London.

Here, queer people were reclaimg their place on the pch – an arena they grew up beg told they didn’t belong Israel Fol began postg “hell awas homosexuals” on social media I realised I had to tell the story of the club – and my own story.

WORLD’S FIRST GAY GBY CLUB TURNS 20: ‘NO-ONE HAD SEEN PLAYERS LIKE BEFORE’

A new documentary shows the world's first gay gby club challengg nventnal perceptns. * steelers the world's first gay rugby club *

Photograph: One Man Band MediaIn fact, om this sgle club, there are now 80 gay and clive gby clubs around the world cludg five Atralia. There was the ocsnal homophobic sledge, but over time the Steelers won the rpect of the straight burly Brish men bee not only did they beat them on ocsn, they showed them that we’re all pretty much the forward to me takg my mera to Amsterdam to film the club at the Bgham Cup, the world cup of “rabow” gby. It was only when Israel Fol began postg “hell awas homosexuals” on social media that I realised I had to tell the story of the club – and my own like Dan Palmer, I too have Fol to thank small part.

STEELERS: HOW ANTI-GAY ROW SPIRED GBY FILM

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His pennt documentary Steelers: the World’s First Gay Rugby Club is cemas across Atralia now. First gay gby club found 20 years ago. The first time Mark Bhell and his all-gay gby team led up agast a straight si, he was overe by a sense of his own masculy.

STEELERS: THE WORLD'S FIRST GAY RUGBY CLUB

In a pub London's Kg's Cross, a group of iends discs the ia of a gay gby club. * steelers the world's first gay rugby club *

For much of his life, the Brish lawyer had been told that beg gay somehow ma him ls of a man. Yet standg shoulr-to-shoulr wh his gay teammat, he felt liberated.

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

Kgs Cross Steelers, named after the NFL si om Ptsburgh, is the first gay gby club the world, and a new documentary film, Steelers, follows their journey om trma to triumph. * steelers the world's first gay rugby club *

“So I really enjoyed playg gby agast straight men, wh my gay teammat, bee for me kd of proved that we were jt as mascule as they were – that we n be jt as physil as they are.

Bhell was one of the early players to jo the Kgs Cross Steelers, the world’s first gay gby club, which this year celebrat s 20th anniversary. What started when six iends met a bar north London 1995, wh the ia of formg a gay-clive gby team, has sce turned to a club wh over 150 members and three teams. The Steelers have won the European petn for gay gby clubs, the Unn Cup, on four ocsns.

THIS GAY JOURNALIST MA A MOVIE ABOUT HIS LIFE-CHANGG CISN TO JO WORLD’S FIRST GAY GBY CLUB

Atkson says jog a gay-clive gby club was the bt cisn he ever ma, and now he’s tellg the world about . * steelers the world's first gay rugby club *

As the 2015 Rugby World Cup enters s fal stag, there are no openly-gay players the tournament.

STEELERS: THE WORLD'S FIRST GAY RUGBY CLUB

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However, wily-rpected gay referee Nigel Owens officiated three pool gam and a quarterfal, but is not volved this weekend’s semis. He’s not alone his stggle – former Wal pta Gareth Thomas beme the first profsnal gby player to publicly announced he was gay 2009. But when the Kgs Cross Steelers lnched two s ago, homosexual profsnal gby players were unheard of.

Homophobic crime numbers. 5, 597: The number of homophobic crim reported to police England and Wal 2014/1522%: Increase on prev year11%: Of all hate crim reported to police were based on victims’ sexual orientatn Figur urty the Home Office. This was 1990s Bra, and fear of the AIDS epimic was actually enough to put some teams off playg the all-gay Steelers such a high-ntact sport.

STEELERS: THE WORLD’S FIRST GAY RUGBY CLUB 2020

Told through the ey of an Atralian televisn reporter who moved to the UK to pe prsn, we learn that sometim you n fd happs where you least expect. We follow the journey of 3 characters the club: the lbian ach fightg misogyny, even the gay world. The semi-pro player who spiraled to a prsn after his g out didn't go as planned. And the prop who disvered he was a drag queen through the club. * steelers the world's first gay rugby club *

“If you had said to me the early ’90s that out-gay men uld play a club like the Steelers, I’d have said was prehensible, ” says the club’s chairman, 43-year-old Alex Smh. Bhell says the homophobia they experienced the early days wasn’t only attributable to AIDS fears.

Smh says he n thk of “maybe two homophobic cints” the last he’s played for gay teams across the UK.

STEELERS - THE WORLD'S FIRST GAY RUGBY CLUB

The Steelers journey to pete the World Cup of gay gby this hopeful yet emotnally hont sports documentary about playg for pri, whoever your team is. * steelers the world's first gay rugby club *

“I wasn’t an out-gay man at that pot and I found that creasgly difficult.

“When I first played for a gay gby club, I turned up, put on my boots, and was exactly the same as any other gby club I’d ever played for – the difference was I felt I uld be myself a way I wasn’t at other clubs. “I wasn’t openly gay.

STEELERS: THE WORLD'S FIRST GAY RUGBY CLUB

Told through the ey of an Atralian televisn reporter who moved to the UK to pe prsn, we learn that sometim you n fd happs where you least expect. We follow the journey of 3 characters the club: the lbian ach fightg misogyny, even the gay world. The semi-pro player who spiraled to a prsn after his g out didn't go as pl... Read all * steelers the world's first gay rugby club *

And there were a few ments, not directed at me but perhaps to the women who were the park, which ma me feel not feel like I wanted to reveal I was gay to them. The Steelers are now also gearg up for the 2016 Bgham Cup, the biennial ternatnal gay tournament to be held Nashville, Tennsee, May. Wh over 50 gay gby clubs around the world today, ’s a long way om the days of six iends meetg a London pub wh a seemgly “prehensible” dream.

Flick through the gallery for the story behd other openly gay athlet. Steelers: The World's First Gay Rugby Club.

In 1995, a pub London’s Kg’s Cross, a group of iends discsed the ia of a gay gby club. From that sual nversatn, the first gay gby team was born - the Kgs Cross Steelers.

STEELERS: THE WORLD'S FIRST GAY RUGBY LEAGUE CLUB

Told through the ey of an Atralian news reporter, Eammon Ashton-Atkson, who moved to the UK to pe prsn, the documentary, follows 3 characters on their journey to overe their stggl as the club pet agast 60 other gay clubs the Bgham Cup Amsterdam – the World Cup of gay gby. * steelers the world's first gay rugby club *

25 years later, there are 60 clubs worldwi and once every two years they get together for the world tournament of gay gby – The Bgham Cup. Steelers: the World's First Gay Rugby Club Photos.

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In 1995, a pub Kg’s Cross, a group of iends discsed the ia of a gay gby club. From that sual nversatn, the first gay gby team was born. * steelers the world's first gay rugby club *

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. "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.

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