Gay club mistaken for NRL’s new team.

A Perth social club for gay men has been mistaken for the NRL’s new Perth Bears team

A social club for gay men known as Bears Perth has been mistaken by NRL fans as the newly announced Perth Bears.

A social club for gay men known as Bears Perth has put out a notice to interstate rugby league fans that they are not the NRL’s new Perth Bears team.

Bears Perth was established in 1997 for men and was not in anyway associated with Perth’s new NRL team, the notice read, and asked people not to sign up if they wanted to join the new rugby club.

Bears Perth president Kingsley Dawes told Sydney radio station 2GB they were being inundated with new membership applications from people who lived interstate.

Adding to the confusion the Bears Perth clubhouse is located next to one of the city’s major sporting grounds at HBF Park.

Mr Dawes said it was a bit weird to receive membership requests from people outside of WA and they phoned about 20 membership hopefuls from out of state to tell them they were not the rugby league club.

“We hardly ever get stuff from out of state, so we got all these memberships and we had to call them up and say, ‘You do realise we are not the rugby club,” Mr Dawes said.

“So if you wanted to, you could go and watch the Perth Bears and then you could drop into the Bears Perth on the way home?” 2GB presenter Ben Fordham asked.

“Yep, and we’d be happy to have visitors, we welcome everybody,” Mr Dawes replied.

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      • If 3% of the population is gay (as per google), then, by average, there would be one in every club's top 30. Who would be most likely at the Eels? The lack of any females on one players instagram might suggest that he prefers the company gentlemen... not that there's anything wrong with that!

        • Well it ain't fucking Dylan, we know that.  I'd suggest it could very well be a perceived hetro married man.  No one in particular, just saying , plenty of gay men have a smother. 

        • Lane....not that there's anything wrong with that!

          • Maybe this explains why Penisini can't keep his head in the game. Hes too busy perving. 

            • Penisinmi

              • Bit like Art and a modern F art..  You now know my bias in one of my passions

                • I can't say that I am a fan of the moniker Momax, but the other option is...Loses

                  • I would prefer simply  Moses Randy. Half the time I don't know who we are talking about . Hope things are going well with you. Is music still a big part of your life. I have gone back to listening to slow calm Jazz. I do quite a bit of drawing lately and it really works for me. Haven't listened to it since the 60s and 70,s. Probably showing my age, but it gets my creative juices running 

                    https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=RDCLAK5uy_n2cq0PxECLzVblC6N...

                    • Music...yes, no, sorta, always, but i am just not feeling it atm. I am doing fine, Randette is good. I have been feeling dark about the state of many folks psyche in the western world, and i could just not be fucked right now.....angry/protest music has an important place in resistance but i am not there yet...not yet...not quite yet.

                      We have had a lot of varied birds visiting and the plants are smashing it.

                      When asked what i am listening to i just say the last thing i put on..

                      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvuI5ebixlA

                       

                    • I am feeling it as well Randy. I have made a conscious effort to walk a lot more in an environment with a lot more trees around preferably..I need to get me away from my you tube news channels.. I don't think I could draw to this music you posted..

                      Youth are usually the ones who challenge the establishment through music and the arts. Seems weird that a lot of under 35 year old males are drifting right and women are going left . Interesting times. Stay well mate 

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