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00:00 (sombre music)
00:02 This is me, 12 years old,
00:05 joining my first rugby club in Australia.
00:07 And this is me now.
00:10 I'm a reporter and a cameraman,
00:12 so I'm used to telling stories,
00:14 but I've never told one this personal.
00:17 Puffter, faggot.
00:22 The bullying was unrelenting, especially in sports class.
00:27 So I never imagined that a rugby club
00:29 would one day change my life.
00:31 Nibs, I found that I had these really great players
00:39 who had a real lack of self-belief.
00:41 I can be a really competent gay person,
00:44 but on the sports pitch, that doesn't belong to me.
00:46 Three, two, one, Stephen!
00:49 There's this element of being a rugby player,
00:52 even as a gay rugby player,
00:54 that there's a certain masculinity
00:56 that you need to maintain.
00:59 To me, that's bollocks.
01:01 I will be tough and brutal and kick your ass on the pitch.
01:05 When I'm off the pitch, I will be as flagrant
01:08 and as flamboyant as I want.
01:10 (crowd laughing)
01:13 I'd never had depression before,
01:17 but I was definitely at that.
01:19 I was at the lowest level of the life.
01:22 And just when I was about to walk away from rugby,
01:24 but something told me, no, rugby can still help you,
01:27 then the club and this season saved my life,
01:31 probably saved my life, you know?
01:33 ♪ Oh, I can see it ♪
01:37 ♪ I can feel it ♪
01:38 The referee often doesn't recognise me,
01:41 so I feel like I'm still needed to be validated by men.
01:44 That is all I want from you for 40 minutes.
01:47 You absolutely have it, and you,
01:49 you'll get more than that, thanks.
01:51 So for me, this isn't a coming out story
01:54 or a story about winning a tournament,
01:56 or even about being gay.
01:59 It's a story about searching for where you belong
02:03 and never giving up,
02:04 because you just might find happiness
02:07 where you least expect.
02:09 (crowd chanting)
02:12 (upbeat music)
02:14 (crowd chanting)
02:17 [BLANK_AUDIO]