Published: February 26, 2019
When rainbow flags were ripped down and destroyed before a Pride Cup game in 2016, wheels of change were set in motion
David Kyle says he has become an ally and advocate of Pride Cups almost by default. As president of the North Gippsland Football League in country Victoria, Kyle says he became motivated to become a more vocal advocate for LGBTI inclusion when he witnessed what he took to be a homophobic response to the club’s first Pride Cup match in 2016 between local teams Glengarry and Traralgon Tyres United.
When Dean Sutton – a local LGBTI community member working with the league on the Pride Cup – hung rainbow flags in the main street of the the tiny town of Glengarry, the flags were torn down and destroyed just hours later.
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