World Club champions Leeds Rhinos are dedicating their Stobart Super League Round 24 fixture against Widnes Vikings on Friday August 10 to celebrating lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender equality. The club are inviting fans to join them in their celebrations by designing a special commemorative shirt which will be worn by the Leeds players during [...]
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Three arrested for homophobic abuse at Brighton – Millwall game
After years it seems like police and football authorities are finally getting the message. Just hours after officials from Brighton and Hove Albion and Millwall signed the sporting charter, which promotes equality in sport, three Millwall fans were arrested for homophobic chanting. The Justin Campaign, an organisation which words for LGBT rights on and off [...]
Panel event hosted by Kick-it-Out, Pride Sports and Nottingham Ball Bois FC
Nottingham Forest Chairman Frank Clark will be amongst panel members for a Nottingham discussion event on homophobia in football and LGBT participation in sport, hosted by Nottingham Ball Bois FC. Bringing together players, officials, campaigners and fans, the panel will discuss how football deals with the issue of homophobia, whether the game is ready for [...]
Britain’s Gay Footballers and Reading Pride
At 9pm tonight (Monday 30th January 2012), BBC3 will screen a documentary entitled “Britain’s Gay Footballers”; Amal Fashanu, niece of Justin Fashanu, the only ever openly gay professional footballer, attempts to discover why not a single one of Britain’s 5000 professional footballers is openly gay, including talking to Max Clifford who has helped several footballers [...]
Robson denies gay rights hairband statement
Young British tennis star Laura Robson has denied that she wore a rainbow coloured hairband onto court at the Australian Open yesterday to make a pro-LGBT statement. The 18 year old from London was unaware that there was a call to take rainbow flags onto the court after the player who the arena is named [...]
Support U, Freestyle Fitness Yoga Class
Since October 2011 volunteers at Support U have been working hard to set up a support centre and life hub for the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) community of Reading. Support U are pleased to announce the first of our inclusive exercise classes for the LGBT community and members of the general public to [...]
Rising to the sporting challenge
Like language, art and music, sport is present throughout all of modern society. Innate within us is the call to pit our skills against other humans and to look adoringly upon those who prove themselves to be better than the rest. But in this world of perfection and macho strength, gays and lesbians have found [...]
