Steven Gerrard at the Liverpool match with Chelsea on Sunday
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Gay News from London. Aussie Bums too
Thursday, February 14, 2008
London based gay rugby team, The Kings Cross Steelers, have won the right to host the 2009 European Gay Rugby Union Cup. Bring it on! Gay rugby players from all over Europe descending on London, what a treat.
East London rugby club Kings Cross Steelers have won the right to host the 2009 European gay rugby Union Cup.
The Steelers are the current champions and will welcome more than 17 teams in May next year.
Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, said: “The tournament will provide a platform to introduce lesbian and gay sport to new audiences.”
The first Union Cup was held in 2005 in Montpellier, France and then in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2007.
Steelers events manager Neil Pyper said: “As the world’s first gay rugby team, now in our 13th year, we are eager to encourage new and experienced teams alike, and look forward to inviting European gay rugby teams to come to our great city next year.”
The tournament will be held on 22 and 23 May 2009, at the club’s West Ham ground.
The Steelers were the world’s first gay rugby club when they formed in 1995.
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England rugby union player Ben Cohen has spoken out about the absence of any openly gay players in the sport.
Cohen, 29, who has a following in the gay community and has appeared at events in gay venues, last year moved to French club Brive after 11 years at Northampton Saints.
Speaking to OutSports.com the winger said that in his opinion it “would be fine” for a rugby player to come out as gay.
“Most rugby players are cool about it and think that people should be allowed to live their lives how they want to, but I can’t speak for everyone,” he said.
“The key thing is the individual needs to be able to take the pressure of top-level rugby and the knowledge that his team mates know he is gay.
“I don’t know for sure, but my feelings are that if he were completely open about it, after the first bit of banter, things would calm down.”
Cohen, who is married, told the website that he is planning a night for gay fans in London in March and to his knowledge he has never played with anyone who is gay.
Despite Cohen’s positive comments, there are no openly gay men in professional rugby or football in the UK.
Last year referee Nigel Owens talked about being only openly gay man to be a rugby union ref at the highest level of the game. He officiated at the Rugby World Cup in France last year.
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Norway Conservatives expected to back gay adoption
Norway: The nation’s Conservative Party is expected to back adoption rights for queer Norwegians, but hopes it becomes their rival’s…[Date: 20-Apr-05 ]
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David and I went to Wimbledon this week to see Matt Bourne’s, The Nutcracker (well we booked it at Christmas).
The tale opens in Dr Dross’s Academy for Waifs and Strays on Christmas Eve, a horrid grey orphanage that pays lip service to the festive season. We meet our heroine and Dr Dross’s awful children. Then the Nutcracker appears and we’re transported to a frozen lake for skating and snow where our heroine loses her love. She follows him to Sweetieland and his marriage to her rival and then … ah well, you’ll have to see it to find out what happens next.
After the grey of the orphanage and the white of the frozen lake, the fabulous colours of Sweetieland are a psychedelic lure to the eyes and the palette.
In Sweetieland, we meet a slightly different cast of characters than we might have been led to expect by the version that this one lampoons. Mother Ginger has been remastered into a hefty licorice security guard who defends an obscene, glitter-lipped, uvula-revealing open mouth that is the backdrop. The sparkling orifice is the point of entry for all the high-end candy, so long as it has a ticket to ride. Clara, being at the lowest end of the pecking order, has no such ticket. She spends the entire divertissement segment attempting to dissemble her way in, by gamely dancing along with the equivalents of Spanish, Marzipan and an over-the-top solo Arabian, where the mustachioed dancer is costumed in a smoking jacket and an ascot, with a whip of meringue topped by a cherry for a coiffure. Chinese is inexplicably retred as a Marshmallow number, and to the music for Russian, we are treated to a raucous faux macho Motorcycle gang of Gobstoppers, whose tripak jumps simulate sex and cycling.
The leads might be twirling away up front but the others are always up to something in the background so you never know where to look. I loved the two blond cupids (Im sure I have seen these two on the dance floor at Mardi Gras) in their glasses and stripey pyjamas and also Mr Nickerbockerglory with his hair of cream topped by a cherry - he was also very purvy trying to seduce our heroine and licking everything and everyone in sight. He was even in character when he came out for his bow at the end, which was a nice touch.
I couldn’t help smiling and grinning throughout the performance, eyes agawp and fingers twirling my beard into dreadlocks. I *want* a battenburg jacket. And cake.
I loved it. It was sumptuous, a feast for the senses and a wonderful way to celebrate the Christmas season.
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Thursday, February 07, 2008
NEW YORK - Lance Bass, band member of ’N Sync, says he’s gay and in a “very stable� relationship with a reality show star.
Bass, who formed N Sync with Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez, Joey Fatone and Chris Kirkpatrick, tells People magazine that he didn’t earlier disclose his sexuality because he didn’t want to affect the group’s popularity.
“I knew that I was in this popular band and I had four other guys’ careers in my hand, and I knew that if I ever acted on it or even said (that I was gay), it would overpower everything”? he tells the magazine.
N Sync is known for a string of hits including “Bye Bye Bye” and “Its Gonna Be Me.” The band went on hiatus in 2002. Bass has also found headlines for undertaking astronaut training and failing to raise money for a trip into space.
Bass says he wondered if his coming out could prompt the end of N Sync He explains, “So I had that weight on me of like, Wow, if I ever let anyone know, it’s bad. So I just never did.”
The singer says he’s in a”stable” relationship with 32-year-old actor Reichen Lehmkuhl, winner of season four of CBS’s Amazing Race.
Gay news for the Queer Australian
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