After 40 mut batg LGBT issu sport, Matt Webb, chairman of gay gby club Kgs Cross Steelers, allows the ont of officialdom to slip.
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- 'STRAIGHT TEAMS HATE LOSG TO ': THE CREDIBLE STORY OF KGS CROSS STEELERS, THE WORLD'S FIRST GAY GBY CLUB
- WORLD’S FIRST GAY GBY CLUB TURNS 20: ‘NO-ONE HAD SEEN PLAYERS LIKE BEFORE’
'STRAIGHT TEAMS HATE LOSG TO ': THE CREDIBLE STORY OF KGS CROSS STEELERS, THE WORLD'S FIRST GAY GBY CLUB
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WORLD’S FIRST GAY GBY CLUB TURNS 20: ‘NO-ONE HAD SEEN PLAYERS LIKE BEFORE’
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“I have a younger gay brother, so I knew there wouldn’t have been a problem, but I need more nfince. Ultimately, was the club that gave me that nfince to say to my parents: ‘I am a member of a gay gby club and I am lovg and this is who I am and I am very happy’.
The lonels of gay men London has been a key factor drivg the club’s membership. He explas: “I did not want to be that gay gby player. But I stopped myself om playg gby universy bee I was gay.
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The Steelers were found 1995, the first gay gby club anywhere the world. So is there still a need for a gay gby club?
Our players still experience homophobia on the pch, and real life every day.
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The need for a gay club and to shout about is more important than ever. Webb brgs up Israel Fol and Billy Vunipola’s ntroversial social media posts – the Atralian was sacked for suggtg homosexuals were among those bound for hell, and the England forward was warned over his own tweets. “There have been some cints of homophobic language on the pch the past year that have been more severe than we have had a while.
There is more dialogue about homophobia now and, as a club, we have ma the cisn that we have to stand up and stand out more. While the club have a zero-tolerance policy towards homophobic language and abe, wh Webb and others workg closely wh the Rugby Football Unn, Premiership Rugby and the Rugby Players’ Associatn, players are happy to take a more humoro approach. Tax nsultant and first XVs player Phil Mil says: “We have a straight ach, and he says if we get homophobic language to give the opposn a quick wk the scm.
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I was out at school, I was known as the harst tackler the team, and so they were all a ltle b sred of me, but there was no hidg I was gay. They thk we will all be hairdrsers bee they haven’t met gay people offic.
They tend to enunter more gay people workg hairdrsers or bars. A lot of people, particularly smaller muni haven’t met many gay people, so they don’t know what to expect.