The club lnched the Arsenal for Everyone iative 2008 as a celebratn of the diversy of the Arsenal fay. Through a number of iativ unrtaken the muny, si Emirat Stadium and throughout the club, Arsenal enavours to ensure that everyone associated wh the club feels an equal sense of belongg. Gay Gooners is Arsenal Football Club’s supporters group for LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and trans) fans.
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- PROUD LILYWH AND GAY GOONERS FLY (RABOW) FLAG FOR LGBT FOOTBALL FANS
- 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
- GAY GOONERS: AT THE FOREONT OF FAN CLN
- THE GAY GOONERS: SEAN MONCRIEFF TALKS TO THE LARGT LGBTQ FOOTBALL SUPPORTERS GROUP ENGLAND
PROUD LILYWH AND GAY GOONERS FLY (RABOW) FLAG FOR LGBT FOOTBALL FANS
Gay Gooners is Arsenal Football Club’s official supporters’ group for LGBT+ fans. Established Febary 2013, they are the first and largt LGBT+ fans group England, wh over a thoand of members the UK and overseas. Gay Gooners exists to provi a social group for LGBT+ Arsenal fans, alli and their iends to meet up, provi a safe and welg space, and mpaign to kick homophobia, biphobia and transphobia out of football. * gay gooners flag *
Gay Gooners exists to provi a social group for LGBT+ Arsenal fans, alli and their iends to meet up, provi a safe and welg space, and mpaign to kick homophobia, biphobia and transphobia out of football.
GAY GOONERS CELEBRATE 10 YEARS AS ENGLAND’S FIRST LGBT FOOTBALL SUPPORTERS CLUB
Republic of Ireland ternatnal and Gay Gooners jo club staff to celebrate LGBT+ History Month * gay gooners flag *
Gay Gooners holds meet-ups near Emirat Stadium before home fixtur, group trips to away gam and anis regular social events. Gay Gooners’ patron and lifelong Arsenal supporter, edian Matt Lus says he is “immensely proud of and grateful to the club” for s support for the group and how “young gay fans now feel clud by the club a way my generatn never uld”. The club works directly wh members of the Gay Gooners to tackle anti-LGBT+ discrimatn football by vg members to take part cln trag for staff.
Gay Gooners also send a team to the club’s annual Arsenal for Everyone tournament at the muny hub. Katie McCabe and members of Gay Gooners joed club staff to celebrate LGBT+ History Month and plete a workshop on genr inty, sexualy and allyship. Durg the ssn, which was livered by Stonewall and Premier League accreded staff traers, McCabe relled the lastg imprsn that seeg the Gay Gooners flag had on her durg her first ever vis to Emirat Stadium.
“I remember seeg the Gay Gooners flag hangg si the stadium and was massive for me. That was warmg for me and is cred to all the work Gay Gooners have done, and that the club have done supportg them. “Havg a group like Gay Gooners is massive, ’s about a sense of belongg and havg a safe space a football environment where you n be yourself.
‘NOT THE WORLD CUP FOR ALL THAT FIFA PROMISED’: GAYGOONERS MAKE QATAR PROTT
Katie McCabe and members of Gay Gooners joed club staff to celebrate LGBT+ History Month and plete a workshop on genr inty, sexualy an... * gay gooners flag *
That’s what Gay Gooners are dog – not jt for me but for fans around the world, and I thk ’s fantastic. As the UK’s first and world’s largt LGBT+ football fan group, Gay Gooners have played an tegral role batg prejudice and raisg awarens of LGBT+ issu the football muny.
GAY GOONERS: AT THE FOREONT OF FAN CLN
McCabe is jt one example of the many supporters and players that have felt wele due to Gay Gooners’ ntued prence si Emirat Stadium and at away match.
THE GAY GOONERS: SEAN MONCRIEFF TALKS TO THE LARGT LGBTQ FOOTBALL SUPPORTERS GROUP ENGLAND
“The ia that jt our visibily and the fact we exist n make supporters or players feel wele jt mak everythg worthwhile to me, ” explaed Gee Rice, -chair of Gay Gooners. Instead, the g together of north London rivals on a ld Tuday afternoon at a five-a-si centre Edmonton was a celebratn of a growg and important movement English football, that of LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr) supporters groups. Two of the most proment are the Proud Lilywh and Gay Gooners and unr the watch of Frnd, a one-time Spurs player and ach, the former marked their first birthday celebratory five-a-si match London’s Edmonton was refereed by Tottenham ach and former midfielr Steffen Frnd.
Photograph: David Levene for The GuardianThe growg strength of Proud Lilywh and Gay Gooners is wele news, as is that of the other regnised LGBT supporters groups that have been set up across the untry recent years – Canal Street Blu (Manchter Cy), LFC LGBT (Liverpool), Pri of Irons (Wt Ham), Proud and Palace (Crystal Palace), Proud Canari (Norwich Cy), Rabow Toffe (Everton) and Rabow Tractors (Ipswich Town) their very existence is also a shame, highlightg that even 2015 homophobia remas a signifint enough problem English football that fans om the LGBT muny feel they need reprentatn and protectn. “There’s no doubt discrimatn still exists among supporters here, ” sists Gay Gooners’ media ordator, Dave Raval.