San Francisco’s premier Division III club rugby team is a team known as the San Francisco Fog Rugby Football Club. The team boasts full men’s and women’s sides as well as being active in the community with the development of the Fog Lions Youth Rugby Team. The team has an impressive record and by all accounts seems like your typical men’s club rugby organization. However, there is one thing that sets Fog Rugby apart from almost all other clubs in the United States, and possibly the world. The vision of this club is to become “the preeminent rugby club in the world that actively pursues the participation of people of color, gay men, women, and other groups traditionally underrepresented in rugby” (SFFog.org). The club was founded by three former college rugby players who were unable to find a gay-friendly rugby club in their community. Having been a rugby player for nearly ten years, I will absolute attest to the fact that unfortunate as it may be, rugby is not a gay-friendly community. However, I feel this can be said just as much if not more in other men’s sports. I believe that what the SF Fog is doing can bring nothing but positive results not only for the rugby community but the sports community at large. Furthermore, the club actually competes fairly well despite preconceived notions about gay men and masculinity involved with rugby. The SF Fog is an excellent example of a group of people who saw what they felt was a problem with the sports community and took action to change it, rather than act victimized.
More about the fog @ sffog.org
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