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World’s first gay rugby club that beat the bigots by tackling homophobia gets its own film

February 20, 2021 by Read Sector

When the world’s first gay rugby club was set up in 1995, Rob Hayward had a stock reply to wags who asked if his team played in pink shirts. ‘No. For a collection of gay men we agreed remarkably quickly on our colours – midnight blue and emerald green!’ Tory Lord Hayward is used to … Read more

SAS Nazi hunters proud to be known as Bigots

January 15, 2021 by Read Sector

SAS BAND OF BROTHERS by Damien Lewis (Quercus £20, 416 pp) When Winston Churchill was voted out of office in the 1945 General Election, less than two months after VE Day, the Special Air Service regiment that had done so much for the Allied cause lost its greatest champion and benefactor. A couple of months … Read more