Members of GayGooners share what Pri month means to them
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- ARSENAL SHOW SUPPORT FOR GAYGOONERS & LGBTQ+ FANS WH 'LOVE IS LOVE' BANNERS OUTSI EMIRAT STADIUM AHEAD OF BRENTFORD GAME
- ARSENAL SHOW SUPPORT FOR GAYGOONERS & LGBTQ+ FANS WH 'LOVE IS LOVE' BANNERS OUTSI EMIRAT STADIUM AHEAD OF BRENTFORD GAME
ARSENAL SHOW SUPPORT FOR GAYGOONERS & LGBTQ+ FANS WH 'LOVE IS LOVE' BANNERS OUTSI EMIRAT STADIUM AHEAD OF BRENTFORD GAME
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This June marks the 10th year of GayGooners proudly supportg Pri month. To celebrate, we ved members of GayGooners to share their experienc of Pri month, tellg what means to have been the first football club reprented at a Pri march.
Carl Fearn, Co-Chair of GayGooners. My first ever time at a Pri Para was 2019 wh the GayGooners. I nnot beg to thank the GayGooners and Arsenal enough for the real difference they have ma my life.
Dave Raval, foundg member of GayGooners and former Chair. When a handful of found the GayGooners 2013, Arsenal was the first Premier League club to have an official LGBT supporters group.
ARSENAL SHOW SUPPORT FOR GAYGOONERS & LGBTQ+ FANS WH 'LOVE IS LOVE' BANNERS OUTSI EMIRAT STADIUM AHEAD OF BRENTFORD GAME
Arsenal are celebratg GayGooners and their LGBTQ+ fans durg Saturday's game agast Brentford the Premier League. * arsenal support lgbt *
When we started, homophobic and transphobic abe was still monplace at grounds and on social media, and sometim we uld feel like we were alone. Victoria Sharkey, Campaigns Officer of GayGooners. In 2022 I will be attendg my first ever Pri London, and I am so proud to be a part of the GayGooners ntgent for this important event.
Wh football fandom is often still taboo to be out and a same-sex relatnship, and recent months members of GayGooners have been abed and asslted for a simple thg as wearg rabow lac to a game, or holdg their partner’s hand. It’s up to fan groups like ours to show the world that ’s ok to be Gay, Trans, Non-Bary, Pansexual, Queer, anywhere on the LGBTQI+ spectm and love the game. Joe Whe, Co-Chair of GayGooners.
Arsenal are celebratg GayGooners and their LGBTQ+ fans durg Saturday's game agast Brentford the Premier League. * arsenal support lgbt *
The support of the Arsenal fay - om the club, fellow fans and the iends who make up the GayGooners - at Pri n never be unrstated. We are makg Arsenal for Everyone, every day - through allyship, through visibily and through thoands of GayGooners beg their thentic selv whether Gay, Lbian, Bi, Trans, Ace or Queer.
GayGooners is first and foremost a social club for Arsenal’s LGBT+ fans. Getty & Arsenal FCArsenal are celebratg GayGooners and their LGBTQ+ fans durg Saturday's game agast Brentford the Premier League. GayGooners was formed 10 years ago this monthIt was the first LGBTQ+ supporters club Brish footballFebary is LGBTQ+ History MonthWHAT HAPPENED?
Rabow loured billboards have been put around Emirat Stadium ahead of the game, which proudly show off the msage 'love is love' BIGGER PICTURE: The matchday programme also featur a double page spread, which celebrat the 10-year anniversary of the lnch of GayGooners, which has grown to the largt LGBTQ+ supporters group the world.
Arsenal have pledged to take the strongt actn possible after two supporters were ejected om the Emirat durg the sis feat to Brighton last Saturday; the fans were reported to stewards for homophobic abe, wh Gay Gooners -chair Carl Fearn praisg the clubs rponse * arsenal support lgbt *
Arsenal's strong rponse to homophobic abe has been praised by the club's official LGBT+ supporters' group, whose -chair warned will take "several years of effort" to end such issu football supporters were ejected om the Emirat Stadium durg Saturday's Premier League game agast Brighton, wh Arsenal promisg to take the "strongt actn possible". Arsenal top-four hop h as Brighton fally end wls streakArteta: 'We lacked urage, purpose' | 'This road tak nowhere'The actn of the club has been greeted wh a posive rponse om Gay Gooners -chair Carl Fearn, who has been workg closely wh Arsenal on LGBT+ awarens. "Whilst we worked wh the club yterday on the statement, we wanted to make sure me om the club and that we're not seen as the 'gay police' as were, bee that jt opens up for all sorts of abe.
Fearn was attendance on Saturday, watchg on om one of three executive box provid by the club wh a view to enuragg people to attend gam, pecially trans and non-bary members of Gay Gooners. When asked how he felt hearg homophobic abe, he said: "For me and a lot of members of the group 's jt the almost exasperatn, and then there's anger that people still say the thgs.