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The Gay Rugby Podcast

Your go-to source for the international LGBTQ+ rugby community. Hosted by Jack Higgins and Ozzie Luna of Los Angeles Rebellion Rugby, this podcast explores the world of inclusive sports, rugby news, and the stories behind players making waves in the sport. Born from the success of the Los Angeles Rebellion Rugby team"s social media, The Gay Rugby Podcast celebrates the intersection of rugby and LGBTQ+ inclusivity. From The Bingham Cup to international gay rugby events, Jack and Ozzie share

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00:11:38

Gay Rugby in Mexico 🇲🇽 | Querétaro's Spicy Rugby Team...

The Gay Rugby Podcast ·

2026/01/26

n this special Spanish-language episode of The Gay Rugby Podcast, we speak with the players of Spicy Rugby Querétaro, one of Mexico’s most active gay rugby teams. Diego, Uciel, Ozzie, and Jack share how the team started four years ago, how they recruit players in Querétaro, and how they organize inclusive tournaments like the Spicy Color Surf Rugby.They discuss the challenges of playing rugby as an LGBTQ community in Mexico, from the lack of dedicated tournaments to creating mixed teams and

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00:21:39

Rugby Broke Him, But He Still Shows Up for His City |...

The Gay Rugby Podcast ·

2026/01/19

Rugby has a way of taking more than it gives. In Episode 33 of the Gay Rugby Podcast, we sit down with Chris Brandenburg of the Portland Lumberjacks Rugby Club on site in Palm Springs, CA during the Rucktacular Rugby Tournament to talk about what happens when the sport you love breaks your body and why you keep coming back anyway.Chris opens up about serious injuries, breaking his leg twice, long recovery stretches, and the mental toll that comes with being sidelined. But this episode isn’t just

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00:22:19

Reclaiming a Gay Rugby Team in a Military City | San...

The Gay Rugby Podcast ·

2026/01/12

What does it actually mean to be an inclusive rugby team in 2025? On Episode 32 of the Gay Rugby Podcast, we sat down on-site at the Rucktacular Rugby Tournament in Palm Springs with Danny Jimenez, president of San Diego Armada Rugby, to talk about identity, visibility, and what happens when a team forgets where it came from.The Armada didn’t start as just another inclusive rugby club. It was founded as a gay rugby team, built to give LGBTQ athletes a place on the pitch when few existed. Over time,

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00:39:05

I’m Straight and Play on a Gay Rugby Team | San...

The Gay Rugby Podcast ·

2025/12/29

What’s it actually like to be straight on a gay rugby team? In this episode of the Gay Rugby Podcast, we sit down with Garrett Mack, Vice President of Marketing, and Daniel, Secretary of the San Francisco Fog Rugby Club, to talk about identity, masculinity, and how inclusive sports culture works in real life; not just on paper.Founded in 2000, SF Fog Rugby is the first gay and inclusive rugby team on the West Coast and one of the most established LGBTQ+ rugby clubs in the United States. The Fog

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00:29:03

I Matched With My Rugby Coach on a Dating App &...

The Gay Rugby Podcast ·

2025/12/22

Welcome to The Gay Rugby Podcast! In this full episode, hosts Jack Higgins and Ozzie Luna sit down with Logan Legs from Quake Rugby, one of the oldest and most inclusive men’s rugby clubs in the U.S., based in the Pacific Northwest. This episode was filmed live at Rucktacular, the premier LGBTQ+ and inclusive rugby tournament in Palm Springs, California, bringing together gay rugby teams from across North America for a weekend of competition, community, and unforgettable stories.During the episode,

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00:23:37

Rugby Daddy and Dating Teammates | Gay Rugby Podcast...

The Gay Rugby Podcast ·

2025/12/01

In Episode 29 of The Gay Rugby Podcast, hosts Jack Higgins and Ozzie Luna sit down with “Rugby Daddy” himself, longtime New-York City rugby lifer (and Gotham Knights legend) Kevin Healy, for a conversation that pulls back the curtain on the early days of gay and inclusive rugby, when there was no Instagram, no Tinder, just sweaty post-game beers, in-person recruiting, and a handful of shirts passed around the pitch.Over two decades playing for Gotham Knights RFC: one of the founding clubs of

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00:43:02

How Eric Anderson’s Career in Rugby Started With His...

The Gay Rugby Podcast ·

2025/11/24

There’s a certain poetry to how someone ends up in rugby without ever planning to touch the pitch. For Eric Anderson, it started the day his husband joined the local team in Los Angeles and Eric, who’d never played a minute, walked into the Rebellion’s orbit and somehow wound up running the whole thing. On Episode 28 of The Gay Rugby Podcast, Jack Higgins and Ozzy Luna sit down with Eric, now President of the Los Angeles Rebellion Rugby Club and part of the team behind Rugby LA, to talk about what

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00:28:04

Rugby Bears | Tom Goss Full Set and Interview | The...

The Gay Rugby Podcast ·

2025/11/10

Tom Goss brings the room to a hush before he makes it sing. We caught him with the band for a full live set and a wide-ranging interview that cuts under the surface of a queer music career, the songs that make crowds cheer, the parts of gay life only other gay men sing about, and why a single track like Bears can mean more than a chorus. Tom’s been turning honest storytelling into sing-along anthems for years; he’s toured, headlined pride stages, and built a quiet, fierce audience by telling simple

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00:38:33

Rugby Confessions w/ Kevyn Fong | Gay Rugby Podcast |...

The Gay Rugby Podcast ·

2025/11/03

Lelo Adult Toys - Black Friday Sale | Save an additional 20% off already amazing deals by using code GRP20 at checkouthttps://www.lelo.com/Kevyn Fong doesn’t do small talk. The LA comedian came by the Gay Rugby Podcast and immediately started asking the questions everyone avoids — what actually happens when you join a gay rugby team, and what’s it like living inside that community once you’re in it?This episode sits somewhere between a locker room and a group therapy session. We talk about identity,

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00:19:43

Ranking Rugby Fan Costumes for Halloween | Gay Rugby...

The Gay Rugby Podcast ·

2025/10/27

On this week’s Halloween-themed episode of The Gay Rugby Podcast, we’re diving into the ridiculous, creative, and occasionally questionable world of rugby sevens fan costumes. From diehards who commit fully to a theme to those who look like they got dressed in the dark before kickoff, we’re ranking them all; not out of judgment, but appreciation for the spectacle that happens when sport collides with personality.This episode isn’t about who wore it best; it’s about how expression shows up in the

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00:14:06

Diversity in Pride | Milton Darnell Smith and DTLA...

The Gay Rugby Podcast ·

2025/10/20

Downtown Los Angeles was pulsing with color when we set up our mics at DTLA Proud Festival. The air was thick with basslines, drag queens strutted past the fountains at Pershing Square, and somewhere between the main stage and a churro stand, we spoke with actor and activist Milton Darnell Smith, a man who carries pride in his bones. This is Episode 24 of The Gay Rugby Podcast, and it’s all about diversity, visibility, and what it means to belong.Milton’s energy is magnetic. He talks about his roots

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00:17:17

Rugby Language Explained | The Gay Rugby Podcast | Ep 23

The Gay Rugby Podcast ·

2025/10/13

Rugby has its own language. Every scrum, ruck, and knock-on carries meaning, rhythm, and history. In this episode of The Gay Rugby Podcast, hosts Jack Higgins and Ozzie Luna from Los Angeles Rebellion Rugby unpack the slang that runs through the sport — and what it says about identity, culture, and belonging.It’s part translation guide, part cultural study. The guys break down how rugby’s coded vocabulary connects players across continents while still leaving outsiders guessing. They look at how

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00:56:56

His Decision SHOOK The NFL | First Openly Bisexual...

The Gay Rugby Podcast ·

2025/09/29

His decision didn’t just ripple, it detonated. In Episode 22 of The Gay Rugby Podcast, we sit down with R.K. Russell, the NFL player who, in a moment of courage and clarity, became one of the first active players to publicly identify as bisexual. What follows is equal parts locker-room confession, cultural reckoning, and hard-won tenderness: a story about leaving silence behind, about masculinity and vulnerability on the field, and about what it means to be bisexual in the NFL while still loving the

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00:11:08

When Did Pool Parties Become Boring? | Andrés Rigal &...

The Gay Rugby Podcast ·

2025/09/22

Episode 21 of The Gay Rugby Podcast - “When Did Pool Parties Become Boring? | Andrés Rigal & Summertramp” - finds us sitting down with longtime nightlife & event-producer Andrés Rigal, founder of SummerTramp and a co-organizer of DTLA Proud, to talk about the arc of queer pool parties in Los Angeles. Rigal reflects on the early days of SummerTramp, the gaps he saw in Los Angeles’s summer event landscape, and how those ideas shaped what SummerTramp was trying to build. We explore what has

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00:13:05

New York City vs. Los Angeles Rugby | Richard...

The Gay Rugby Podcast ·

2025/09/15

Episode 20 of The Gay Rugby Podcast drops us right into the middle of DTLA Proud Festival 2025, recorded on August 24 at Placita Olvera in downtown Los Angeles. The episode features Richard Suarez-Tascon of Rebellion Rugby, where he helps lead alumni and RugBAE engagement, and the conversation zeroes in on the rivalry and shared DNA between rugby culture in New York City and Los Angeles.With the festival celebrating its tenth year of LGBTQ+ community and pride in Los Angeles, the setting underscores

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00:47:44

Life After Olympic Rugby | USA Captain Lauren Doyle's...

The Gay Rugby Podcast ·

2025/09/08

Episode 19 of The Gay Rugby Podcast features Lauren Doyle, a former USA Women’s Rugby Sevens star and three-time Olympian who represented Team USA in Rio, Tokyo, and Paris. Doyle opens up about what happens when the Olympic dream ends, the adrenaline fades, the medals go into storage, and suddenly you’re left facing the world outside of sport. She speaks openly about the post-Olympic blues, the mental health struggles athletes face after retirement, and the disorienting shift of entering the

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00:11:43

Pride as a Form of Protest w/ Eric Solis at DTLA...

The Gay Rugby Podcast ·

2025/09/01

Pride as a Form of Protest” isn’t just a rallying cry - it’s the reason DTLA Proud exists. Formed as a more diverse, grassroots response to the mainstream West Hollywood Pride, the festival brings queer culture back to the center of Los Angeles with intention and bite.In this episode of The Gay Rugby Podcast, filmed live at DTLA Proud festival 2025, we talk with Eric Solis and his husband Dennis Caasi about why Pride still matters as activism. Eric - a longtime organizer and creative producer -

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00:32:04

Rugby Zodiac Signs w/ Comedian Kevin Sullivan | Gay...

The Gay Rugby Podcast ·

2025/08/25

In Episode 17 of The Gay Rugby Podcast, we pull charts, pull no punches, and let LA stand-up Kevin Sullivan read the scrum like it’s written in the stars. From Aries flankers who live for collision to dreamy Pisces fullbacks who can’t stop chasing the offload, we map out rugby zodiac signs with a wink, a whistle, and a little queer magic. Kevin (an openly gay comic you’ve seen around the Hollywood Improv and on the Two Broke Gays pod) drops into our locker room to talk astrology, identity, and why

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00:23:25

Using Dating Apps for Validation | The Gay Rugby...

The Gay Rugby Podcast ·

2025/08/18

From dating app dopamine to locker room breakdowns, the messy overlap of rugby and mental health. Episode 16 of The Gay Rugby Podcast is less polished highlight reel and more raw post-match debrief. We dig into using dating apps for validation and rugby and mental health, pulling no punches on how those late-night swipes blur into dating app addiction, how the highs of a “like” hit feel like a dopamine loop, and why those same patterns leave players limping emotionally by Monday practice.We ask the

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00:23:38

Attempting The Rugby Diet w/ Elliott Norris | Ep 15

The Gay Rugby Podcast ·

2025/08/11

An Olympic rugby prop eats like it’s a full-time job. For Episode 15, Elliot Norris joins us on The Gay Rugby Podcast to find out what it really takes to get through a day on that kind of fuel.We hand him the daily meal plan built for an elite front-rower: thousands of calories spread across precision-timed meals, heavy carb loads before training, protein spikes after, and recovery shakes that taste like ambition mixed with chalk dust. It’s a diet designed to keep a body anchored at the heart of an

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