Kaue Garcia and Ryan O’Neill had owned a sports team for no more than six months when they decided the time was right to shake things up.
What they needed more than anything else, they felt, was a drag queen. They were not entirely sure what the reaction would be.
Keighley Cougars, the English club they had bought almost as an act of mercy, was not an obvious place to start pushing boundaries.
Keighley is an old textile town, surrounded by the windswept moors of Yorkshire’s Brontë Country. The scars of postindustrial decay remain livid here: spectacular scenery that houses some of the most deprived areas in England.