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- JOG THE WORLD'S FIRST GAY GBY TEAM CHANGED MY LIFE. SO I MA A FILM ABOUT
- WORLD’S FIRST GAY GBY CLUB TURNS 20: ‘NO-ONE HAD SEEN PLAYERS LIKE BEFORE’
- CELEBRATG 20 YEARS OF THE WORLD'S FIRST GAY RUGBY CLUB
- WORLD’S FIRST GAY GBY CLUB TURNS 20: ‘NO ONE HAD SEEN PLAYERS LIKE BEFORE’
- STEELERS: THE WORLD'S FIRST GAY RUGBY CLUB
- STEELERS: THE WORLD'S FIRST GAY RUGBY CLUB
- NEW FILM G TO AMAZON PRIME SHOWS HOW THE WORLD’S FIRST GAY GBY CLUB SAVED LIV AND SMASHED STEREOTYP
- HEARD OF THE STEELERS? NO, NOT THEM, THE GAY GBY TEAM OM LONDON
- STEELERS: HOW ANTI-GAY ROW SPIRED GBY FILM
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. * world's first gay rugby club *
The former Wallabi prop scribed a moment when he was drivg recklsly, the feelg of “ath felt preferable to anybody disverg [he] was gay.
WORLD’S FIRST GAY GBY CLUB TURNS 20: ‘NO-ONE HAD SEEN PLAYERS LIKE BEFORE’
We met up wh some current members of the first official gay gby unn club, formed London's Kg's Cross's Central Statn pub 1995. * world's first gay rugby club *
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.
CELEBRATG 20 YEARS OF THE WORLD'S FIRST GAY RUGBY CLUB
The world’s first gay gby club, the Kgs Cross Steelers of Bra, is celebratg s 20th anniversary. * 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.
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.
WORLD’S FIRST GAY GBY CLUB TURNS 20: ‘NO ONE HAD SEEN PLAYERS LIKE BEFORE’
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 * 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.
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 planned. And the prop who disvered he was a drag queen through the club. * world's first gay rugby club *
Yet standg shoulr-to-shoulr wh his gay teammat, he felt liberated.
STEELERS: THE WORLD'S FIRST GAY RUGBY CLUB
Steelers, headg to Amazon Prime on 16 April, follows the inic Kg's Cross Steelers, aka the first gay gby club. * 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.
NEW FILM G TO AMAZON PRIME SHOWS HOW THE WORLD’S FIRST GAY GBY CLUB SAVED LIV AND SMASHED STEREOTYP
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. * world's first gay rugby club *
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.
As the 2015 Rugby World Cup enters s fal stag, there are no openly-gay players the tournament. 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.
HEARD OF THE STEELERS? NO, NOT THEM, THE GAY GBY TEAM OM LONDON
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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: HOW ANTI-GAY ROW SPIRED GBY FILM
“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. “I wasn’t an out-gay man at that pot and I found that creasgly difficult.