From leafletg fans to troducg f and even jail time, France is crackg down on homophobia football. But when a referee stopped play over anti-gay chants, fans cried foul.
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FRENCH SPORTS MISTER PROMIS TO RAISE GAY PRI FLAG IF FRANCE WS THE 2022 FIFA WORLD CUP
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” The former midfielr was cricisg the timg of last weekend’s anti-homophobia mpaign France’s top two divisns, which volved managers and ptas wearg rabow-loured armbands and the numbers on the back of players’ shirts featurg the same motif. ”“Don’t do the fal four gam, when clubs’ survival is at stake, ” Roy went on, ostensibly unaware that last week’s match day was chosen bee 17 May is Internatnal Day agast Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia.
Evintly, the founrs should have taken the ramifitns on future Ligue 1 relegatn battl to nsiratn before choosg that day – markg the World Health Organizatn’s cisn to classify homosexualy as a mental disorr – to draw attentn to vlence and discrimatn experienced by LGBTQ+ people. ”The Renn manager, Bno Génés, also exprsed doubts about the mpaign: “We’re agast all forms of discrimatn, but I’m not sure ’s necsary to have a match day agast homophobia. ”Ligue 1 managers have form for tone-af statements but plag about the timg of an anti-homophobia mpaign may be a new low.
The unn, all the while reeratg s mment the fight agast homophobia, has also lamented the absence of a separate match day aimed at raisg awarens of harassment profsnal ’s not the first time that the mpaign – place sce 2019 – has volved some phback om those on the pch. Oudéa-Castéra later announced that tomatic stadium bans would be troduced for discrimatory ments ma at match, as part of a wir plan to bat homophobia.