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JOG THE WORLD'S FIRST GAY GBY TEAM CHANGED MY LIFE. SO I MA A FILM ABOUT
We are proud members of the Internatnal Gay Rugby Associatn whose LGBT+ gby tournaments the Unn Cup and the Bgham Cup take all around the globe cludg Sydney, Dubl, Nashville, Madrid and Ottawa. The Bgham Cup is a three-day biennial “World Cup of gay gby” found memory of Mark Bgham, the gay Amerin gby player who was among the 40 passengers and crew aboard Uned Airl Flight 93 on Sept. The tournament Ottawa, Canada has bee a flagship event of the Internatnal Gay Rugby anizatn and now attracts 1, 700 players om 60 different teams Europe, North Ameri and Oceania.
“At the time of Mark Bgham’s heroic ath, only six gay and clive gby clubs existed anywhere the world, ” the Bgham Cup webse says. 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. 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.