{"id":345721,"date":"2025-12-13T16:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T16:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/345721\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T16:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T16:49:09","slug":"brighton-and-hove-lgbt-rugby-club-celebrates-10th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/345721\/","title":{"rendered":"Brighton and Hove LGBT rugby club celebrates 10th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Braiden, who has been involved in inclusive rugby for about 15 years, says the graduation match at Hove Recreation Ground is &#8220;always quite a big thing in our annual calendar&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Among those taking part was TJ, who has relished being part of the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was never really a sport kid growing up, and as someone with a lot of anxiety it has been so lovely to tap into a group that&#8217;s been both so supportive,&#8221; TJ said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Pink Pythons defeated the Emerald Pythons 22-17 on the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fellow new recruit Sam says the team names resulted in the captains being known as &#8220;Elphaba and Glenda&#8221; from Wicked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Braiden, who has been involved in inclusive rugby for about 15 years, says the graduation match at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-345721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}