The fight against homophobia in football has hit the headlines again after it was revealed at least eight professional players are gay but won’t come out due to fear of a backlash from fans. The headlines come after the first ever current professional in a major US sporting team came out last week. Gay campaigners [...]
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Exeter City FC says ‘no’ to homophobia
Exeter City FC will be saying ‘no’ to homophobia this Friday (15 February) at their evening match at home against Accrington Stanley (kick off 7.45pm). The game is the club’s annual designated ‘Football v Homophobia’ match. Backed by the Supporters’ Trust, City’s One Game One Community group is once again teaming up with the Devon [...]
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Joey Barton may sue Daily Mail over ‘homophobic’ article
Footballer Joey Barton has hinted that he might sue the Daily Mail after one of its columnists joked he should come out to detract from his chequered past. In his article notorious commentator Martin Samuel said that as the sport was desperately looking for a player to come out as gay to improve its image, Joey Barton [...]
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Nicola Adams lesbian boxer shortlisted for BBC Sports Personality of the Year
The first ever Olympic Female Boxing Champion and lesbian Nicola Adams has been nominated for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award. This prestigious prize has massive competition this year after a brilliant year for UK Sport. However, Nicola is certainly in with a chance. The announcement is on 16th December and until then, the [...]
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Gay boxer wins first fight while British boxer admits to homophobic tweets
Orlando Cruz has won his first fight since coming out. The 31 year-old featherweight took on Jorge Pazos on 19th October and took a unanimous victory. The judges scored 118-110, 116-111, 118-110 in favour of Cruz at the Kissimmee Civic Centre in Orlando. The Puerto Rican fighter came out as gay in early October and [...]
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Devon Lions – Devon’s first LGBT friendly football club
The sports world has been one of the last bastions of the “no gays allowed” culture – but increasingly more people from the LGBT communities are taking up sport to keep fit and enjoy themselves or taking to the terraces to cheer on their favorite team. One football team which is challenging stereotypes, especially homophobia, [...]
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Proud Rhinos to celebrate sporting equality
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 [...]
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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 [...]
