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WTER ACTIVI: JO OUR GREAT GAY RUGBY TEAM
[spacer height=”20px”]Established 2013, the New Zealand Falns Rugby Football Club are Aotearoa’s premiere gay and clive gby unn and touch team wh the goal of enablg both aspirg and seasoned players to e together to participate and enjoy gby an open and supportive environment. [spacer height=”20px”]The NZ Falns RFC is one of two gay gby clubs New Zealand, an affiliate wh the New Zealand Rugby Unn (NZRU), and one of 75 worldwi member clubs of Internatnal Gay Rugby (IGR). Prr to the tablishment of the NZ Falns RFC 2013, New Zealand has had two other gay gby teams which had n both Auckland and Wellgton.
Some of those volved the prev teams looked to re-tablish gay gby New Zealand which formed the NZ Falns. The first gay gby team New Zealand, and the send gay team the world, was Wellgton’s Krazy Knights when kicked off 1998. Notably, the teams played the world’s first gby match between gay gby teams Wellgton October 1998.
The team entered the 2014 Bgham Cup, a gay gby world tournament, Sydney and managed to pull off a victory the fal for the Bgham Bowl – a remarkable achievement nsirg this was the team’s first tournament together. 2023 also marks 25 years sce gay and clive gby was found and first played New Zealand.
NZ FALNS: GAY GBY TEAM NOMATED FOR TOP MUNY AWARD
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. He tells exprs that he was “lookg to get back to team sport… The fundamentals of the Falns are that we are a gay and clive team. Followg on om their succs at last year’s Bgham Cup, the Falns will be hostg the The Purchas Cup September where they will be up agast some of the most petive teams on the Atralian gay gby scene.
“Gay gby is certaly on the rise wh our muny, pecially after the first Bgham Cup. Jeremy agre and says those terted should watch a game on Saturday, jo the team for practic and put asi how they may have been treated the past wh other gby teams, “If people had been hant the past bee they thought beg gay was an issue, this is the team for you! The club and the team are extremely proud to get another platform to be regnised” he saidThe Falns Rugby team was found 2013 to promote acceptance of the LGBTQIA+ muny gby, followg the footsteps of Wellgton's Krazy Knights and Auckland's Ponsonby Hero, New Zealand's first and send gay gby the Hero disband there was an absence of gby optns for gay men the cy wantg to play a safe, iendly environment.
“We provi a space not only for gay and trans players but ’s a team and club open to our alli and supporters alike to be a part of a kpapa that is strong around manaakanga, ”He has held the learship posn wh The Falns sce 2019. “When I first played for The Falns, I was exposed to some homophobic slurs while playg and that was sort of the first few gam. Christensen says“Some of the old thkg is still que homophobic but as the falns, we’ve been able to help te across the board.