If you’re looking to play with men at the top of their game, the world’s gay rugby union champions are giving you that chance this weekend in Sydney.

For those who have always wondered how it would feel to don a rugby guernsey and get their head into a ruck as part of a World Cup-winning sports side, you may just get the chance to prove yourself over the next few weeks as Sydney’s very own world-beating Convicts prepare to hold a recruitment drive.

The Community Brave Foundation will be releasing a new calendar for 2013 featuring some of the LGBTI community’s favourite sporting clubs including The Sydney Convicts, The Stingers, The Flying Bats and Sydney Rangers to help inspire young LGBTIQ youth to join one of the many community sports teams around.

How the Sydney Convicts helped James Saunders, recently named the gay rugby club’s ‘Player of the Year’, reach the top of his game. As planning begins for the next Bingham Cup to be held in Sydney, the backline star speaks to Serkan Ozturk about rugby, sportsmanship and the Convicts.

The LGBTI community and the entire city are being urged to get behind Australia’s first gay rugby club, the Sydney Convicts, as they now prepare to play host to the Bingham Cup – dubbed the gay rugby world cup – in two years time.

Australia’s first gay rugby club, the Sydney Convicts, will play host to the Bingham Cup – dubbed the gay rugby world cup – in 2014 and have called upon the city and the LGBTI community to help them defend their title in two years time.

The Sydney Convicts have returned back to their home town as winners once again following another triumph, this time at the season-ending Australian Gay Rugby Championship in Brisbane over the weekend.

In what has been a fairytale season, the Sydney Convicts gay rugby union club tasted even more success over the weekend after taking out the grand final of the Nicholson Cup.

With plenty of talk in recent days about homophobia on the football pitch, the Sydney Convicts gay and inclusive rugby club have received an official endorsement from Prime Minister Julia Gillard for Sydney to hold the next Bingham Cup in 2014.

Fresh from their overseas triumph at the Bingham Cup which got rugby greats like John Eales and Nick Farr-Jones singing their praises, the Sydney Convicts are now only one small step away from claiming another prestigious trophy this season.

Australian rugby union royalty as well as a dash of Olympic greatness was at hand to help celebrate the Sydney Convicts recent Bingham Cup victory at a special welcome home function at Darlinghurst last night.

SYDNEY: Fresh from their triumphant campaign to reclaim the gay rugby world’s Holy Grail - the Bingham Cup - our very own Sydney Convicts will be co-hosting a special celebration party later this month and are inviting the whole community to join them.

Sydney Convicts gay rugby union footballer Kevin Perry became the first person tossed out of this season’s Masterchef after admitting to having “stuffed up” in a pasta challenge overnight.

One member of the Sydney Convicts gay rugby side has swapped the smell of the dressing room for the spicy aromas of the kitchen after being named as the first contestant to get through the Top 24 in the latest season of reality television juggernaut Masterchef.

For the second year running the Sydney Convicts will battle it out against Sydney University Football Club (SUFC) for the Diversity Cup this Saturday at the birthplace of Australian rugby union, with both teams aiming to tackle homophobia and promote diversity within sports as well as the general community.