Arsenal’s Gay Gooners an LGBT soccer fan group phg for cln  - Outsports

Contents:

• THE OUTSPORTS GAY-IENDLY WORLD CUP RANKGS OF ALL 32 TEAMS
• ‘NOT THE WORLD CUP FOR ALL THAT FIFA PROMISED’: GAYGOONERS MAKE QATAR PROTT
• A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
• GAY GOONERS CELEBRATE 10 YEARS AS ENGLAND’S FIRST LGBT FOOTBALL SUPPORTERS CLUB
• NOT THE WORLD CUP FOR ALL THAT FIFA PROMISED – GAYGOONERS MAKE QATAR PROTT
• ‘THIS MUNY CHANGED MY LIFE’ ARSEBLOG NEWS TALKS TO GAY GOONERS FOR PRI
• RABOW LAC: GAY GOONERS -CHAIR GRATEFUL FOR CLUB'S YEAR-ROUND SUPPORT AHEAD OF ARSENAL VS NEWSTLE MATCH
• ARSENAL’S GAY GOONERS AMONG ENGLISH LGBT SOCCER FAN GROUPS PHG FOR CLN

THE OUTSPORTS GAY-IENDLY WORLD CUP RANKGS OF ALL 32 TEAMS

Wh the event Qatar — a horrible place for LGBTQ people — and wh no openly gay players this is not an event that one n watch whout mixed feelgs.

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‘NOT THE WORLD CUP FOR ALL THAT FIFA PROMISED’: GAYGOONERS MAKE QATAR PROTT

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A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

In 2010, Argenta beme the first untry Lat Ameri to legalize gay marriage. The feat of vilent homophobe Jair Bolsonaro for print is a big al. France ranks seventh the 2022 ILGA-Europe (Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Assn.

There is still homophobia, though, among a segment of fans who chant the gay slur “puto” at opposg players. Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Readg the Game newsletter sent straight to your box for eeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s ee weekly newsletter Arsenal’s GayGooners supporters group have lled on FIFA to make the 2022 World Cup the last to take place a untry that persecut members of the LGBTQ+ group held a prott outsi the Qatar embassy London on Saturday at the same time as FIFA print Gianni Infanto was hostg a media nference fendg the cisn to take the fals to the Middle ’s treatment of migrant workers and the LGBTQ+ muny has been heavily cricised, wh the issu raised only g more to the fore as tournament kick-off approach. ”In a statement released to the PA news agency, GayGooners -chair Carl Fearn spoke out at the “lip service” given to LGBTQ+ supporters.

This is not the World Cup for All that FIFA promisedGayGooners -chair Carl FearnInfanto opened his hour-long speech by sayg: “Today I have very strong feelgs, today I feel Qatari, today I feel Arab, today I feel Ain, today I feel gay, today I feel disabled, today I feel a migrant worker”Fearn, though, told the 52-year-old Swiss he should spend time wh the groups he claimed to be at one wh before he uld make such claims. It will be a glor month to be a gay fan. Last time at the 2019 Women’s World Cup, the Netherlands lay claim to the honor of beg the team wh the most out LGBTQ players, but this year Atralia boasts 10 out players and overtak them for the tle of Gayt Team 2k23.

GAY GOONERS CELEBRATE 10 YEARS AS ENGLAND’S FIRST LGBT FOOTBALL SUPPORTERS CLUB

Ireland’s historic entry to the tournament marks another triumph for out midfielr Sead Farrelly, whose natnal team but and 2023 return to the NWSL e more than six years after retirg om soccer the wake of systemic homophobic and sexual abe wh the league, which the Athletic first reported on 2021.

This year, Gay Gooners celebrate their tenth anniversary.

Gay Gooners were the first official LGBT Supporters Club English football and, wh over 1, 600 members currently, they are the largt the untry.

NOT THE WORLD CUP FOR ALL THAT FIFA PROMISED – GAYGOONERS MAKE QATAR PROTT

Tim Stillman sat down wh -chair Carl Fearn and members Selena Chambers and Lucy about why Gay Gooners remas such a val muny for LGBT Arsenal fans. It’s two days before Pri and the Gay Gooners are nng a fundraisg night at a pub close to Emirat Stadium.

I first talk wh Carl Fearn, the -chair of Gay Gooners. A member heard a homophobic chant the gents at Newstle away last year where there is obvly no police and no meras. I am gettg a b olr and thick of sk now so I choose to challenge (homophobia) more.

I didn’t jo the Gay Gooners to not say anythg. There are certa elements that are still around certa plac and not jt wh homophobia eher. Last season, the club started playg a vio the stadium featurg several members of Gay Gooners, as well as Aaron Ramsdale and Kim Ltle, outlg a zero-tolerance approach to homophobic abe the stadium.

‘THIS MUNY CHANGED MY LIFE’ ARSEBLOG NEWS TALKS TO GAY GOONERS FOR PRI

“I was a pub jt when stadiums re-opened after vid and I heard some horrible homophobic and antisemic abe and the landlord said they didn’t really know how to handle . Last night @gaygooners chary event great fun.

“The suici rate among the LGBT muny is far higher than the general populatn, pecially among young gay men and a lot of that is due to that ntuo prsure. “So that homophobic chant or ment might seem like banter but for an LGBT person that’s nstant, that’s another thg to al wh, then there’s another a few mut later, then you read somethg onle or the paper and that prsure builds and people start to thk ‘if people really hate me that much what’s the pot? Lonels is an issue for LGBT people and when you are alone and you are alg wh that, n lead to bad thgs and that’s another one of the reasons we really need a muny like Gay Gooners.

However, Carl is eager to pot out that the Gay Gooners is not somehow exotic nor are the members different om any other Arsenal fans.

RABOW LAC: GAY GOONERS -CHAIR GRATEFUL FOR CLUB'S YEAR-ROUND SUPPORT AHEAD OF ARSENAL VS NEWSTLE MATCH

While the assumptn persists that society gradually liberalis over time, Carl says that homophobia the stands is very much a live issue. “The ‘Chelsea rent boys’ chant has e to foc now and people always say ’s not homophobic but let’s be very clear, is.

It is beltlg gay people; nobody would ever highlight sex between heterosexual people as a reason to mock a player. There are more homophobic arrts when we play Brighton than any other game. ” (Brighton is one of the ci wh the hight gay populatn Bra and Brighton fans have long been targeted wh homophobic abe om opposg fans).

ARSENAL’S GAY GOONERS AMONG ENGLISH LGBT SOCCER FAN GROUPS PHG FOR CLN

By the time you read this, Arsenal will probably have tweeted about Gay Gooners and London Pri, the annual LGBT ftival central London. Carl mak a plea to Arsenal fans who object to this homophobia.