Gay Gooners: at the foreont of fan cln - The Short Fe

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The Gay Gooners have teamed up wh Arsenal to make the Emirat a more welg place for members of the LGBT+ muny

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'WE LOVE FOOTBALL AS MUCH AS ANYONE ELSE' - HOW THE GAY GOONERS AND ARSENAL ARE TACKLG HOMOPHOBIA

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 homosexuality *

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. 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”.

ARSENAL’S HECTOR BELLER THE VICTIM OF HOMOPHOBIC SLURS AND SAYS OPENLY GAY PLAYER IS IMPOSSIBLE PREMIER LEAGUE

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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.

England's largt LGBT+ football club supporters’ group is makg the Emirat a more welg place for people who jt want to be themselvIt was Sunday, January 23 and Arsenal had jt been held to a tratg 0-0 draw by Burnley at Emirat Fearn and a number of fellow members of the Gay Gooners, the largt LGBT+ football club supporters’ group England, ma their way to one of the many pubs close to the Emirat to chew the fat over a post-match pt.

GAY GOONERS: AT THE FOREONT OF FAN CLN

However, as he stood at the bar, Carl heard somethg prsgly faiar: a homophobic chant beg sung by a group of Arsenal fans on the other si of the so much prev experience wh the suatn, the 58-year-old kept his feelgs check.

Later on, though, he would have a nversatn wh the landlord that would set motn a seri of events that would culmate Arsenal celebratg their relatnship wh the Gay Gooners throughout Saturday’s game agast Brentford.

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