UK Rugby Player Ben Cohen Tells Gay Teens "You Have the Right To Be Happy"

[WillParkinson]

UK Rugby Player Ben Cohen Tells Gay Teens "You Have the Right To Be Happy"


We've long documented the all around coolness of Ben Cohen, a straight English rugby player who embraces the gay community and his gay fans. It's fun when Cohen poses for sexy pics in a gay magazine and auctions off his jockstrap, but with this video Cohen proves just how much he cares about the gay community.

http://www.afterelton.com/people/2010/10/ben-cohen-gay-teens-right-be-happy


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Ben Cohen is a god.

[David Zephyr]

1. K&R.

We need more Ben Cohens in this world.

[CurtEastPoint]

3. Amen to that! In more ways than one!

[foxfeet]

4. I'm very happy just looking at his picture here.

All that, brains and common decency, too.

[dsc]

2. He is a great man

So is Hudson Taylor, the college wrestler who wore the HRC equal sign as he wrestled. He also made a good it gets better video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJxObXSVJoY

[joeybee12]

5. Just did a search on him...he is considered legally deaf...

and he donated a signed jackstrap to be auctioned off for an AIDS benefit!

[WillParkinson]

6. Wish I had known...

I'd have sold my husband...

Well, OK, maybe not sold. Rented?

[joeybee12]

7. I'd LOVE to know what the winning bid was!

Probably more than I make in a year!!!!

[WillParkinson]

8. Gotcha covered!

Rugby star Ben Cohen donated a signed jockstrap to a fund-raiser for U.K.-based Gay Men Fighting AIDS, and it managed to raise $460 for the organization.

“I am happy to support this year’s GMFA/RVT Gay Sports Day,” Cohen said in a statement the day before the event. “Sport is an important part of my life, and it’s great to see a community come together and enjoy sport in such a fun and accessible way. Plus it raises vital funds for the important work carried out by GMFA and the other charities which will benefit from the day.”

Cohen has long been a vocal supporter of gay rights and has even appeared in a number of U.K.-based gay publications. The rugby player also donated other items to the auction, but figures for those items are not yet available.

[joeybee12]

9. Like I said...

more than I make in a year! :evilgrin: