BEN COHEN Launches his STAND UP Foundation Site This Week

Benjamin Christopher Cohen is a former England rugby union international.

In May 2011, Cohen retired from professional rugby, and decided to  focus on the Ben Cohen Stand Up Foundation he created to combat homophobia and bullying.

He is getting ready to launch his anti-bullying StandUp Foundation   site on August 3.

He's going to be doing some fundraising for the site and today released a video about it. The first 500 T-shirt orders will get a  StandUp wristband and the first 100 orders will receive a photo of him.

Watch the announcement
on YouTube.

Off the field he is considered a gay icon. He often speaks favourably of his gay following, ousted David Beckham as Gay Times' sports personality of the year in 2008, and came second as their sexiest man of the year. Among other Ben Cohen merchandise, he has released calenders since 2009 in which he is often shirtless.  Ben appeared in Attitude's September 2009 issue.

In 2010, Cohen donated a signed jockstrap to support GMFA, a British charity addressing gay men's health issues, which was sold at auction at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern.  He also featured on the front cover and in an interview section of GMFA's printed FS Magazine in November 2010. He was just recently on the cover of OUT and will be touring the country in the next 2 months, promoting his cause.




 

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