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Contents:

• STEELERS: HOW ANTI-GAY ROW SPIRED GBY FILM
• TAKE A SNEAK PEEK AT GAY GBY FILM, ‘IN FROM THE SI’
• IN FROM THE SI REVIEW – GAY GBY DRAMA IS TOO SLOW ON S FEET
• STEELERS: THE WORLD'S FIRST GAY RUGBY CLUB
• 6 SENTIAL LGBT+ FILMS TO SEE AT BFI FLARE FTIVAL, OM GAY GBY ROMANCE TO TRANS G-OF-AGE
• 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
• A NEW DOCUMENTARY EXPLOR THE LIV AND ROMANC OF GAY RUGBY PLAYERS
• HEARD OF THE STEELERS? NO, NOT THEM, THE GAY GBY TEAM OM LONDON
• STEELERS: THE WORLD'S FIRST GAY RUGBY CLUB
• NEW ‘STEELERS’ DOCUMENTARY PROFIL BARRIER-BREAKG GAY BRISH GBY CLUB
• TO GAY GBY, WH LOVE – MATT CARTER ON MAKG ‘IN FROM THE SI’

STEELERS: HOW ANTI-GAY ROW SPIRED GBY FILM

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TAKE A SNEAK PEEK AT GAY GBY FILM, ‘IN FROM THE SI’

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IN FROM THE SI REVIEW – GAY GBY DRAMA IS TOO SLOW ON S FEET

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STEELERS: THE WORLD'S FIRST GAY RUGBY CLUB

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6 SENTIAL LGBT+ FILMS TO SEE AT BFI FLARE FTIVAL, OM GAY GBY ROMANCE TO TRANS G-OF-AGE

It mak the prospect of optimistic documentary Steelers: The World’s First Gay and Inclive Rugby Club much more wele – and a way to mornise a mty narrative. It’s ma by one of the London-based club’s former players, Atralian reporter Eammon Ashton-Atkson, who is narrator, director, wrer and edor, tellg the story of three queer people volved wh the team as they pete agast other gay clubs the Bgham teas out some movg ttimoni and provis a stgg remr for many straight viewers that g out isn’t always the happy endg many thk is, and there are still wounds that need to heal over.

STEELERS: HOW ANTI-GAY ROW SPIRED GBY FILM

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JOG THE WORLD'S FIRST GAY GBY TEAM CHANGED MY LIFE. SO I MA A FILM ABOUT

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A NEW DOCUMENTARY EXPLOR THE LIV AND ROMANC OF GAY RUGBY PLAYERS

Now they apparently play only other gay teams.

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HEARD OF THE STEELERS? NO, NOT THEM, THE GAY GBY TEAM OM LONDON

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The former Wallabi prop scribed a moment when he was drivg recklsly, the feelg of “ath felt preferable to anybody disverg [he] was gay. 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.

STEELERS: THE 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.

NEW ‘STEELERS’ DOCUMENTARY PROFIL BARRIER-BREAKG GAY BRISH GBY CLUB

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TO GAY GBY, WH LOVE – MATT CARTER ON MAKG ‘IN FROM THE SI’

Niamh LewisMar 1, 2021, 09:52 AM ETWhen Eammon Ashton-Atkson, an Atralian televisn reporter, cid to film his gby club as they went to the biannual Bgham Cup 2018, he uld never have imaged the posive reactn a documentary about would film Steelers is about London-based Kgs Cross Steelers, the world's first gay gby club and one of over 60 such sis world-wi. Although the stori the film are related to the stggl of g out, prsn, and a history of bullyg for beg gay, they're are told a way which wir dienc n empathise wh. "It's a story about a gay gby club, but 's also a story about human stggle, and people g sport and their sense of muny to help each other, which is universal, " Ashton-Atkson told ESPN.