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Why is still so shockg to see gay people mastream ads? At a time when every other mographic is practilly shoehorned to marketg for the sake of diversy, gays and lbians are still all but visible the TV advertisg landspe. But while you might not have seen many yourself, gay-themed TV ads are fely out there. To close out Gay Pri Month, we tracked down 50 of them om around the world and anized them to seven tegori that seem to keep poppg up ("Lbians Are Hot," "Don't Tell Mom," etc.). Check out the llectn after the jump.

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ALL GAY GBY CLUB TAK THE ADVANTAGE

One of three gay gby teams Canada, Muddy York RFC aims to break the stereotyp * toronto gay rugby *

We also travel for exhibn match agast other teams, and host our annual Beaver Bowl Tournament, when we ve other IGR (Internatnal Gay Rugby) and regnal clubs to jo Toronto over the Labour Day weekend. Toronto Muddy York is a progrsive, ALL-INCLUSIVE gby club the Greater Toronto Area providg the sport of gby to the gay muny and their iends.

GAY RUGBY PLAYERS

Members of the Toronto Gay Rugby team, Toronto Pri Para, 2004. * toronto gay rugby *

We also travel for exhibn match agast other teams, and host our annual Beaver Bowl Tournament, when we ve other IGRAB (Internatnal Gay Rugby Associatn and Board) and regnal clubs to jo Toronto over the Labour Day weekend. Muddy York RFCToronto Muddy York is a progrsive, ALL-INCLUSIVE gby club the Greater Toronto Area providg the sport of gby to the gay muny and their iends.

10 GAY RUGBY PLAYERS WHO MA THEIR COME OUT

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Photographs of gay Toronto gby team challenge. stereotyp about masculy and homosexualy. Team sports and recreatnal activi also provi opportuni for mararie, but the notn of gay athlet has always enuntered ristance and ntroversy.

In gby, nsired a manly hard ntact game, the pervasive stereotype of homosexual men as weaker than ‘straight guys’ ntradicts the prototypil player.

Until recently, the possibily of gay players on the pch was not even ntemplated, and the locker room was nsired a sacred space voted to pure masculy.

VANUVER'S FIRST GAY AND CLIVE GBY TEAM IS BACK

However was the multiple layers of excln and disfort that led a few gay gby players, phed to the margs of the qutsential gentlemen’s sport, to form Muddy York RFC, Toronto’s first gay-iendly gby team. The club also travels for exhibn match agast other gay teams, hosts the annual Beaver Bowl Tournament and every two years participat the Bgham Cup, an ternatnal petn often labeled as the LGBTQ Rugby World Cup. The drivg force behd the club's velopment was Royer, a Marketg & Public Relatns maven, and former print of Toronto's Muddy York, who serv as the Internatnal Gay Rugby Public Relatns Officer.

" In addn to the founrs, the Rabow Griffs will be n by an terim board prisg Fancial Planner Jamie Louren, Informatn Technology Development specialist Troy Hector, Internatnal Gay Rugby Chief Marketg Officer David Donnachie, strategic planng nsultant Marc Apduhan. The Bgham Cup, also known as the Mark Kendall Bgham Memorial Tournament, is the biennial world champnships of gay and clive gby.

THE 50 GAYT ADS EVER

That same year the Wolv also beme a member of the Internatnal Gay Rugby, an anizatn signed to elimate discrimatn of sexual orientatns or intifitn the sport by providg members of the 2SLGBTQ+ muny a chance to play gby an clive gby club.

DISMANTLG STEREOTYP: 10 INSPIRG GAY RUGBY PLAYERS AND PERSONALI

“Wh everythg that has happened sce 2018 – I know that the Internatnal Gay Rugby fay needs this tournament more than ever. BOYS WILL BE BOYSThe notn of gay athlet has somehow always enuntered ristance and ntroversy wh the sport muny. Up until a few years ago, the possibily of gay players on the pch was not even ntemplated.

The very mon stereotype picted homosexuals as weaker than straight guys and fely not suable for a “gentlemen’s fight club” like gby. The locker room was a sacred space voted to pure masculy, where gay dividuals would not f. It was this disfort 13 years ago that phed a few of Toronto's gay gby players to form the first gay-iendly gby team the cy.

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