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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

If you have the stereotype that gay men n't play gby, thk Steelers are an all-gay team, and they are tough.

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

Now they apparently play only other gay teams.

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

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

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.

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STEELERS: THE WORLD'S FIRST GAY RUGBY CLUB

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In om the Si, a new film explorg the iendships and romanc of gay gby players, recently had s premiere at the BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Ftival. For starters, gby is somethg of a niche, lolized sport, and that alone n make a eful vehicle for breakg up the trop of gay cema.

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

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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.

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

"That's a thought that do go through your md, and while 's generally a posive there are still pockets of homophobia. Then, 2019, Atralia's Israel Fol spouted his famo anti-gay ments on Instagram, sayg "hell awas" gay opened the drawer and started the ed aga om scratch, and turned to the unnventnal documentary has bee. "Wh beg gay, you don't thk that I grew up sperately wantg to change my sexualy, like, wishg the gay away?

They were dubbed the tabloids as 'Harlequeens, ' there was homophobic ments, and a fear over ntractg HIV and AIDS. "For those of who grew up when wasn't ok to be gay, jt really before the ter was mon, there was huge stigma. You had Margaret Thatcher's Sectn 28 [a law brought the UK by a Conservative ernment om 1988-2003 to the "prohib the promotn of homosexualy"], misnceptns about the HIV vis, " Ashton-Atkson explas.

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