Auckland’s gay gby team will travel to Wellgton for a game agast the Straight Ups Invatnal XV and mark the begng of gay gby New Zealand.
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- CAMPBELL JOHNSON, FORMER ALL BLACKS PRO-RUGBY PLAYER, COM OUT AS GAY
- 20 YEARS OF GAY RUGBY NEW ZEALAND TO BE CELEBRATED ANNIVERSARY MATCH
- FORMER ALL BLACK CAMPBELL JOHNSTONE PRAISED AFTER PUBLICLY G OUT AS GAY
CAMPBELL JOHNSON, FORMER ALL BLACKS PRO-RUGBY PLAYER, COM OUT AS GAY
* gay rugby team new zealand *
As New Zealand's only reprentative natnal gay and clive gby team, recently, the NZ Falns played a pose team the Bgham Cup 2022 held Ottawa, Ontar. A former member of the famed New Zealand natnal gby team has e out as gay. He told prenter Hilary Barry he was g out now to help other gay athlet stgglg the closet.
“If I n be the first All Black that out as gay and take away the prsure and stigma surroundg the issue n actually help other people, ” the 43-year-old said on Monday. AdvertisementAuckland’s gay gby team will travel to Wellgton for a game agast the Straight Ups Invatnal XV and mark the begng of gay gby New Zealand.
20 YEARS OF GAY RUGBY NEW ZEALAND TO BE CELEBRATED ANNIVERSARY MATCH
October’s game will mark 20 years sce the first match between two gay gby teams New Zealand and the world. The first game between two gay gby teams occurred south Wellgton October 1998.
FORMER ALL BLACK CAMPBELL JOHNSTONE PRAISED AFTER PUBLICLY G OUT AS GAY
The publicy was about beg able to say y, we’re gay, but we also want to be part of somethg that’s very much a part of our untry’s culture. Twenty years on and the need for gay gby teams is jt as strong, if not stronger than what was 1998.
For most of the time sce that October 1998 game, the Falns remaed New Zealand’s only out gay gby team. That changed this year wh the formatn of the Canterbury Hero Christchurch, a signal of gay gby’s ntual rise across the untry. The importance of gay gby New Zealand over the past 20 years has been two-fold.