Members of GayGooners share what Pri month means to them
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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. * arsenal lgbt destekliyor mu *
Gay Gooners. Gay Gooners is Arsenal Football Club’s official supporters’ group for LGBT+ fans. 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 holds meet-ups near Emirat Stadium before home fixtur, group trips to away gam and anis regular social events.
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 lgbt destekliyor mu *
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.
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.