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- WHAT MAK GAY GBY'S BGHAM CUP TOURNAMENT SO SPECIAL?
- BIGGT EVER LGBTQ+ GBY TOURNAMENT G TO BIRMGHAM THIS WEEKMATCH WILL BE PLAYED AT BCU’S MOOR LANE PAVILN OM FRIDAY 28TH TO SUNDAY 30TH APRILBIRMGHAMMAILBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYNATHAN CLARKECOMMUNY REPORTER05:30, 24 APR 2023UPDATED09:54, 25 APR 2023BOOKMARKTHE UKS BIGGT GAY GBY TOURNAMENT WILL ARRIVE BIRMGHAM AT THE END OF THIS MONTH. (CRED: ALAN WHTGTON)THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
- CHARLOTTE ROYALS RUGBY CLUB HOSTS FIRST-EVER TERNATNAL GAY RUGBY TOURNAMENT
- MADISON ULD HOST 2025 INTERNATNAL GAY RUGBY NORTH AMERIN CUP
- A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
- CHARLOTTE’S GAY & INCLIVE RUGBY CLUB!
- INTERNATNAL 'GAY RUGBY' MEET
WHAT MAK GAY GBY'S BGHAM CUP TOURNAMENT SO SPECIAL?
"Until you're part of the Bgham Cup, you don't realise how big is," says Marc-Pl Stufkens, one of the anisers of the 'World Cup' of gay gby that will wele over 2000 players, ach, officials and supporters to Amsterdam this weekend. * gay rugby tournament *
Shortly after a handful of gby unn clubs for gay and bisexual men om the UK and USA had found the Internatnal Gay Rugby Associatn and Board (IGRAB) October 2000, The Washgton Renegas held an rmal, ternatnal, vatnal tournament at their home DC May 2001. As a gay man and regular gby player, Mark not only played for San Francis Fog but also helped to set up Gotham Knights New York Cy and was well known throughout the fledglg IGR was credibly shockg that jt three month’s followg the vatnal, Mark would loose his life the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks, onboard flight Uned October 2001, followg the 2001 vatnal, the San Francis Fog succsfully lobbied IGRAB for the right to put on a XVs gby tournament San Francis June tournament was fashned the style of the Rugby World Cup, wh both the tournament and cup prize named honor of Mark followg a unanimo cisn by all the members of IGRAB. The Bgham Cup brgs together gay and clive gby unn teams om all over the world (photo by Kev Stt).
"Until you're part of the Bgham Cup, you don't realise how big is, " says Marc-Pl Stufkens, one of the anisers of the 'World Cup' of gay gby that will wele over 2000 players, ach, officials and supporters to Amsterdam this weekend. Then all of a sudn, every two years, you see they're each part of this worldwi gay gby muny. " Gay gby clubs om all over the world are about to scend on Amstelveense, a suburb the south of the cy.
The tournament self is the flagship event of Internatnal Gay Rugby and tak s name om Mark Bgham, who played for the San Francis Fog - a foundg member of IGR - and later tablished the Gotham Knights club New York Cy. "There are a number of gay sports events - the Gay Gam, for example - but this is the only one that foc on gby unn. "It's a platform to help make gay people om all across the world visible.
BIGGT EVER LGBTQ+ GBY TOURNAMENT G TO BIRMGHAM THIS WEEKMATCH WILL BE PLAYED AT BCU’S MOOR LANE PAVILN OM FRIDAY 28TH TO SUNDAY 30TH APRILBIRMGHAMMAILBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYNATHAN CLARKECOMMUNY REPORTER05:30, 24 APR 2023UPDATED09:54, 25 APR 2023BOOKMARKTHE UKS BIGGT GAY GBY TOURNAMENT WILL ARRIVE BIRMGHAM AT THE END OF THIS MONTH. (CRED: ALAN WHTGTON)THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
The Washgton Renegas is a men's gby unn football club. We are a member of the Capal Rugby Unn (CRU), USA Rugby (USAR) and a foundg member of Internatnal Gay Rugby (IGR). * gay rugby tournament *
" An exhibn of Bgham Cup photography lled 'Rugby Is My Pri' is beg held at this year's tournament Amsterdam (photo by Gvanni Caprtti) For gay gby clubs, the petn, muny and celebratn that the biennial Cup embodi serv as a bean, wherever they might be the world. There's a b of tongue cheek around the namg nventns too - the club om Baltimore, home of legendary gay movie director John Waters, are lled the Flamgos.
CHARLOTTE ROYALS RUGBY CLUB HOSTS FIRST-EVER TERNATNAL GAY RUGBY TOURNAMENT
A rerd number of out LGBTQ players make this year’s tournament a feast for gay fans. * gay rugby tournament *
"Team sport is different, pecially for gay men, " says Stufkens. " Teams om Holland, Swen and Canada are set to take on a World Barbarians XV a four-team women's petn at the Bgham Cup this year Stufkens scrib team sports culture for gay men as "a ltle more plited" than for their straight unterparts. "There have been velopments, and be easier for people who are gay to start participatg team sports when they're younger, but the realy is that a lot of guys playg only e to at a later age.
MADISON ULD HOST 2025 INTERNATNAL GAY RUGBY NORTH AMERIN CUP
"Here the Netherlands, we might not need to talk about 'emancipatn' for gay people anymore, but visibily - to show across the world that this is happeng, that we're playg gby jt like any other person - is important.
"I don't thk 's graed homophobia, 's more like people don't really get - and then when an cint , they're like 'oh s**t, now we unrstand aga'.
A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
"Robbie Brennan, of London's Kgs Cross Steelers - the world's first gay gby club - unrstands gby's fay feel better than most. "Brennan's eback cid wh the fale to a landmark season for the Steelers, who won their league to earn promotn to the London Essex 3 divisn - the eighth tier of the English gby pyramid, and what will be the hight level at which a gay and clive team has ever played the UK. In an terview wh ESPN Scm 2014, she explaed how Mark, even though he was "a big guy full of nfince", faced difficulti life for beg gay.
(Bgham Cup/Amanda Tom)The world's largt amatr gby tournament has s openg ceremoni Ottawa Wednday, wh more than 1,700 players om 20 untri participatg.What sets this biennial tournament — the Bgham Cup — apart om others, is the fact has bee a world cup of gay and clive gby.This is the tourney's 10th anniversary, and is beg held Canada for the first time. In 2018, the Ottawa Wolv, Ottawa's only gay and clive team, flew to Amsterdam to prent our bid to get the hostg rights and after that we set about the bs of puttg the tournament on."The tourney featur a women's cup as well, named after Amanda."We've been tryg to build up a women's tournament to make tly clive ... Tacklg trans clivy tooA big part of clivy gby is the place of trans athlet, and to that end, the Bgham Cup clus a summ that will tackle the issu surroundg trans athlete participatn gby, said Laberge."We're gog to gather the top sport rearchers, amics, legal mds and also lears om the sport Canada and we have ternatnal atten om everywhere to addrs and tackle transphobia and homophobia the sport," Laberge said."Bee, unfortunately, there's a handful of people who are phg an exclnary narrative right now ...
The Bgham Cup is a biennial, ternatnal gby tournament celebratg gay and clive gby clubs. It was named honor of Mark Bgham who helped start two of the first premier gay gby clubs (the San Francis Fog and the Gotham Knights) and is ternatnally known as one of the hero of 9/11. At the time of Bgham’s ath, only six gay and clive gby clubs existed worldwi.
CHARLOTTE’S GAY & INCLIVE RUGBY CLUB!
Currently, we are the only Internatnal Gay Rugby (IGR) team our unn prised of seven stat meang we reprent Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Iowa, and Arkansas.
INTERNATNAL 'GAY RUGBY' MEET
The Bgham Cup is an ternatnal gay gby unn tournament that promot clivy, equaly and petn.
” Admistered by Internatnal Gay Rugby (IGR), the Bgham Cup is named memory of Mark Kendall Bgham, a former Universy of California, Berkeley gby star and -founr of the Gotham Knights RFC, a gay-clive gby club New York Cy. “The ternatnal gay and clive gby muny is very exced to see the return of the Bgham Cup.
One of only four gay-clive gby clubs Canada, the Ottawa Wolv RFC was engaged an extensive biddg procs to w the rights to host the Bgham Cup the natn’s pal back 2018. Other gay-clive gby clubs Canada clu the Montreal Armada RFC, the Toronto Muddy York RFC and the Vanuver Rogu RFC. The Ottawa Wolv RFC is part of IGR, a member of the Feratn of Gay Gam and regnized by World Rugby as their lead LGBT anizatn.