Mickey Rourke's gay gby film is no longer about Gareth Thomas - Outsports

Contents:

• IRISH ACTOR FEATURG GAY GBY MOVIE OPENS UP ABOUT OVERG BULLYG
• STEELERS: HOW ANTI-GAY ROW SPIRED GBY FILM
• IRISH FILM ABOUT YOUNG GAY RUGBY PLAYER TO SCREEN AT NEW YORK FILM FTIVAL
• WATCH: MEET THE WORLD'S FIRST GAY GBY CLUB AMAZON PRIME'S DOCUMENTARY STEELERS
• MICKEY ROURKE'S GAY GBY FILM IS NO LONGER ABOUT GARETH THOMAS
• ACTOR ALEXANR LLN ON GAY GBY FILM IN FROM THE SI: ‘70% OF THE ST WERE OF THE MUNY’
• BLACKROCK BOY MEETS BLACKROCK BOY: BEG ‘GAY AND TO SPORT’ AT AN ELE DUBL GBY SCHOOL
• ROURKE TO PLAY GAY IRISH GBY PLAYER NEW FILM
• IRISH GBY STAR OUT AS GAY AFTER FEARG HE WOULD HAVE TO QU GAME

IRISH ACTOR FEATURG GAY GBY MOVIE OPENS UP ABOUT OVERG BULLYG

In From The Si, a poignant new movie about a gay London gby team, has won over both dienc and crics sce arrivg cemas both Ireland and the UK last week. Pearse, who is openly gay, also told of his hope that the gby movie, directed by Matt Carter and -starrg former Emmerdale actor Alexanr Lln, will enurage other young people who are stgglg wh their sexualy to e out.

STEELERS: HOW ANTI-GAY ROW SPIRED GBY FILM

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Read allFollowg a dnken enunter, two equally attached men om a sh strapped and divid gay gby club unwtgly sleepwalk to an adultero affair but mt nceal their growg feelgs or risk stroyg the club they love. Followg a dnken enunter, two equally attached men om a sh strapped and divid gay gby club unwtgly sleepwalk to an adultero affair but mt nceal their growg feelgs or risk stroyg the club they productn, box office & pany Vios1More like thisReview Not bored for an stantI was absolutely horrified to see people here parg this film wh the horrendoly borg and irrelevant "Weekend" and claimg that this film based on a gby club and two of s members suffered parison.

IRISH FILM ABOUT YOUNG GAY RUGBY PLAYER TO SCREEN AT NEW YORK FILM FTIVAL

Where "Weekend" was an actnls dirge about nothg, "In om the si" explored much more and did the ntext of a group of gay guys takg on the hettie world on their own terms and the film the clanste affair between two of the players explored them of fily and stagnatn. Handsome Devil, the celebrated Irish movie about a young gay gby player, to screen at Garn State Film Ftival this weekend. John Butler’s partly tobgraphil film about a young gay gby player is about to fd a new dience, havg been selected for cln the New Jersey ftival.

Ned soon to realise that Conor is gay and beg forced to nceal orr to f . Sherlock star, Andrew Stt, also stars as a closeted gay teacher, battlg wh his cisn to keep his own inty a secret. Butler, the wrer and director, based the characters on his own experience growg up as a gay gby player.

WATCH: MEET THE WORLD'S FIRST GAY GBY CLUB AMAZON PRIME'S DOCUMENTARY STEELERS

In an terview wh GCN last year, Butler said, “I am gay, and I am really to sport, and I had difficulty rencilg those two aspects of myself growg up. © 2018 GCN (Gay Communy News).

Cast & crewUser reviews201554mThe liv of a self assured Canadian jock, a rookie Irish backpacker and a stoic Japane outsir change when they vie for a posn the gay gby world liv of a self assured Canadian jock, a rookie Irish backpacker and a stoic Japane outsir change when they vie for a posn the gay gby world liv of a self assured Canadian jock, a rookie Irish backpacker and a stoic Japane outsir change when they vie for a posn the gay gby world productn, box office & pany PhotosMore like this6. Tablished specifilly to actively reach out to tradnally unr-reprented groups gby; such as people of lor, gay men and women (though players who do not f to the tegori are not exclud). It also pet the Internatnal Gay Rugby Associatn and Board (IGRAB) season.

The heartwarmg documentary tells the story of the world's first gay and clive gby club, Kgs Cross Steelers. The doc follows the players and their ach as they share their stori of overg personal stggl to get to the Bgham Cup Amsterdam -- the World Cup of gay gby.

MICKEY ROURKE'S GAY GBY FILM IS NO LONGER ABOUT GARETH THOMAS

We meet the gay female ach and former Welsh ternatnal player who is nstantly overlooked by refere and stggl to fight misogyny the male-domated sport, a gby fan who is tryg to fd his place after recently g out as gay, and a drag queen-turned-gby player who advot for livg life as your te, thentic self. 'This story isn't jt for gby fans, or even gay people.

ACTOR ALEXANR LLN ON GAY GBY FILM IN FROM THE SI: ‘70% OF THE ST WERE OF THE MUNY’

This is weird, but then aga is Hollywood, so maybe mak sense -- the Mickey Rourke bpic about openly gay Welsh gby player Gareth Thomas is no longer set Wal and is no longer about Thomas.

Speakg to The Sun, the sir source says "Gareth was upset about beg cut out, but hop the story rais awarens of how hard is for gay sportsman to e out. On the other hand, assumg Rourke's character is an athlete alg wh beg gay, still n be effective if told rrectly.

BLACKROCK BOY MEETS BLACKROCK BOY: BEG ‘GAY AND TO SPORT’ AT AN ELE DUBL GBY SCHOOL

That’s the treat store for Alexanr Lln, whose new movie In From the Si, examg the liv of gay gby players on and off the pch, is screeng at this month’s BFI Flare: London LGBTQI+ Film Ftival on 26 and 27 March before a wi release later this year. Some guys were bisexual, some were gay, some straight – was a meltg pot of different experienc, and no judgement. Although this film is set Cuba, ’s wrten by Irish gay man, Mark O’Halloran, directed by an Irish man, and fund by the Irish film board, so we’re claimg as an Irish film.

Jt as Jús (Héctor Meda) gets a start his dream job as a drag queen at his gay lol Havana, his tranged macho father (Je Pegorría) lands on his doorstep, and forbids him to perform.

Deeply closeted at a time when homosexualy is still a crimal offense Ireland, the middle-aged Alfie creat a lol sndal when he announc a productn of Osr Wil’s play Salome, starrg untry girl Ale (Tara Fzgerald) and Robbie (Ruf Sewell), the b driver for whom Alfie secretly p.

ROURKE TO PLAY GAY IRISH GBY PLAYER NEW FILM

Hapls civil servant, Shane (Michael Legge) gets more than he bargaed for when he mov to an apartment wh a gay fashn stunt, Vcent (Allen Leech).

Angie (Flora Montgomery) is the lbian who has an affair wh bisexual Clara, then falls love wh Kate, and then has a hapls one-night-stand wh her gay bt iend, Red, and be pregnant. ‘Big’ Kev (Andrew Bent) and “Ltle’ Kev (Michael Legge, Cowboys & Angels) are a gay uple this Irish answer to The Haner, which follows a band of bondg boys on a stag party the wilds of Wicklow.

Dpe the director beg a gay man, ’s easy to thk the gays are there jt for show, but then they bee the centre of the tensn as we realise ‘Big’ Kev isn’t ved to the weddg bee the father of ‘Ltle’ Kev (and the groom) is agast their relatnship. It allows for a brief discsn on a divi between young and old generatns on the subject of homosexualy that seems dated already, but the film’s gay payoff is genuely movg.

IRISH GBY STAR OUT AS GAY AFTER FEARG HE WOULD HAVE TO QU GAME

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