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SOUTHAMPTON’S only gay gby team will be hostg The Turg Cup – a day of play signed to get the LGBT muny dog more sport.

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SOUTHAMPTON'S GAY GBY TEAM WSEX WYVERNS JOS HISTORIC SOUTHERN LEAGUE

SOUHTAMPTON'S only gay gby unn team has ma history by jog the first clive leagu the south of England. * gay rugby team southampton *

The team was tablished June 2014 to enurage gay people to enjoy the sport and to troduce new and potential players to gby as well as velopg the skills of experienced players. SOUHTAMPTON'S only gay gby unn team has ma history by jog the first clive leagu the south of England.

The creatn of the league will back the efforts the clubs have taken to spire gay men om all backgrounds to get volved the sport an enuragg and supportive environment. It is beg n associatn wh Internatnal Gay Rugby, an anisatn that provis opportuni for members of the LGBT muny to pete gby through tolerant and acceptg clubs and teams.

SOUTHAMPTON’S only gay gby team will be hostg The Turg Cup – a day of play signed to get the LGBT muny dog more sport. The event – whose formal tle is the UK Gay and Inclive Invatnal Rugby Champnship – has been named honour of the Send World War cryptologist and mathematician whose early puter work helped w the war – but who was prosecuted 1952 for homosexual acts.

CY'S ONLY GAY GBY TEAM WSEX WYVERNS HOSTS UK GAY AND INCLIVE INVATNAL RUGBY CHAMPNSHIP TO GET LGBT MUNY DOI

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And they say the day is aimed at challengg homophobia on the pch.

Now the cup’s third year Wyverns will play host to five other gay-clive clubs: Bristol, Cardiff, London, Northampton and Birmgham. There is a sort of ia that gay men don’t play sport but, of urse, that’s pletely unte. “There have been several people g out and all teams are clive – but how many teams have out gay players?

Nigel Owens is a referee and an out gay man but terms of out gay players there aren’t very many. “The event will be a good chance to tackle homophobia.

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It’s a iendly league and this year English Rugby will also be there to support the event as part of the Rabow Lac mpaign - an iative by LGBT chary Stonewall which has seen football and gby players across the untry brighten up their lac support of tacklg homophobia.

“Whether dividuals play for a mastream club, or for a club providg the opportuny for gay and bisexual people to participate the sport, the RFU supports the velopment of gby across all muni and groups. There are now a growg number of gay gby teams that provi hugely succsful exampl of iendly habatn between people of different sexual orientatn. But whilst clive gay teams have popped up all across the world sce the Kgs Cross Steelers formatn, London 1995, the south ast has seemed to lag behd.

PRIDE was abundance as Southampton’s only gay gby team claimed a top four spot this year’s Turg Cup. Teams om across the untry me to Millbrook RFC’s pch Lordshill recreatn ground to jo home si Wsex Wyverns and go to battle the event, whose formal tle is the UK Gay and Inclive Invatnal Rugby Champnship.

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