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Contents:

• DIARY OF A GAY FOOTBALL FAN AT THE QATAR WORLD CUP
• GAY ENGLAND FAN QATAR'S SECRET WORLD CUP DIARY
• TAL OM A GAY FOOTBALL FAN
• WHAT 'S LIKE TO BE A GAY FOOTBALL FAN STLAND 2019
• DIARY OF A GAY MAN
• WHAT MEANS TO BE A GAY FOOTBALL FAN 2017
• DPE S BT TENTNS, FOOTBALL REMAS UNWELG OF GAY FANS
• THREE GAY FOOTBALL PLAYERS FEATURED NFL NETWORK SEGMENT ON CARL NASSIB
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

DIARY OF A GAY FOOTBALL FAN AT THE QATAR WORLD CUP

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Image source, BBC/David CheemanImage ptn, "I don't feel I have to choose between beg a gay man and an England fan, " says PhilPhil, 39, is a lifelong football fan who's Qatar for his fourth World Cup a row. Qatar has said "everyone is wele", but as a gay man travellg a untry where same-sex relatnships are crimalised, he tells through his diary how the experience has been challengg.

GAY ENGLAND FAN QATAR'S SECRET WORLD CUP DIARY

I've been an England fan for longer than I've known what the word "gay" means.

I'm aware that my cisn to go to Qatar puts me the substantial mory of gay England fans - but if we're ser that the game is for everyone, I'm not gog to let Qatar's spible LGBT rights stop me om enjoyg the game that I love. I don't feel I have to choose between beg a gay man and an England fan. Listen to the 5 Mut On podst: The Secret Fan20:10 - Souq WaqifI spoke to a gay fan om the Netherlands a bar earlier.

TAL OM A GAY FOOTBALL FAN

I thk the lols genuely do believe , they jt don't nsir gay fans as part of the equatn. It's not necsarily homophobic, 's jt such a taboo topic that we're visible. I've met a uple of people who've said, "you're perfectly safe here, why do matter that you're gay?

Wele to the plight of a gay sports fan! My teemed lleague Cyd Zeigler wrote last week about the annoyg stereotype that gay men have to be “masc” to watch the Super Bowl. As a rult, I often take on a self-pretg tone when discsg my sports fandom, lamentg how I am the “worst gay ever” bee I n more easily name the Red Sox’s startg ne than the latt nttants on “Drag Race.

I have my gay sports iends to thank.

WHAT 'S LIKE TO BE A GAY FOOTBALL FAN STLAND 2019

My foray to the gay world began when I joed Boston’s LGBTQ flag football league 2016.

I started datg men three years prr, but until then, my gay life basilly end the bedroom. The faiari eased my trepidatns about enterg a gay space. I’ve experienced so many important gay firsts wh my football iends: drag shows, weddgs, viss to Montreal’s Gay Village.

I’m not sayg there are right and wrong ways to be gay, of urse.

DIARY OF A GAY MAN

Co-founr Jim Buzski recently wrote about a new survey that found 30 percent of gay men and 40 percent of lbians intify as “passnate sports fans. They play the Gay Football Supporters Network (GFSN) league, the only LGBT league Bra and agast, gasp, “straight” teams as well.

You would hear homophobic chants, this was om Dune fans, and when   om your own, so to speak, do mean more bee there was a nnectn between me and my fellow supporters. READ MORE: Graeme McGarry: Is Stland ready for a gay player?

WHAT MEANS TO BE A GAY FOOTBALL FAN 2017

“Thgs are better, but you still hear homophobic language so there’s a way to go. You hardly hear any racism the days, and if there is tends to get challenged, but not so much when to homophobia. It mak prsg sense therefore that homophobia remas a problem.

DPE S BT TENTNS, FOOTBALL REMAS UNWELG OF GAY FANS

Stt Cuthbertson, velopment manager of the Equaly Network, said recently that he knew of gay players Sttish football who had e out to their club but not publicly. “It’s difficult enough to make the game but I n’t image havg to al wh beg the first highprofile gay footballer. There is a mix of gay and straight players and ’s far more accepted.

Those who pla about a “gay agenda” beg forced on them need to do a b of growg up, a b more readg and thkg, and rise above lazy clich. Sce my last postg, some of my iends on Xbox have learned of my beg gay, and all is well the Call of Duty world!..

Mr Borjan's fay left their hometown of Kn 1995, after the breakup of Yugoslavia, at a time when there were stori of ethnic Serbs fleeg Croatia on Borjan's fay moved to Canada has also begun disciplary proceedgs agast Mexi and Ecuador, after fans allegedly sang homophobic sanctned, natnal teams n be fed or forced to play match an empty has said has a "zero-tolerance policy" for discrimatory fan anisatn has a three-step procs that allows refere to stop, spend or end a match if fans are abg players bee of their race, ethnicy or sexual 2019, creased penalti for discrimatory abe, implementg a mimum fe of 20, 000 Swiss ancs ($20, 900; £17, 500) for teams whose fans break the l. Last year, Mexi was fed 100, 000 Swiss ancs and had to play two World Cup qualifyg gam behd closed doors bee of homophobic chants. Also that year, the Hungarian football feratn was fed 200, 000 Swiss ancs and fans were banned om two gam after supporters hurled racial abe at black English players durg a qualifyg has self e unr cricism for choosg Qatar, where homosexualy is illegal, to host the World Cup.

THREE GAY FOOTBALL PLAYERS FEATURED NFL NETWORK SEGMENT ON CARL NASSIB

To those outsi the game, seems credible that there has still never been an openly gay footballer  Bra’s top leagu.

Furthermore, a BBC survey found that spe 82% of UK sports fans beg fortable wh gay players, 8% would stop watchg their Pri Football, an alliance of LGBT supporters groups across the football pyramid, has quadpled s numbers two years.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

Homophobia’s month of actn, we spoke to four of those fans volved about their own experienc, and whether 2017 uld be the year a player ‘ out’. ‘There’s a lot of manly bbish football’Neil Beasley-Yat, thor of Football’s Comg Out: Life as a Gay Fan and Player:I found difficult grassroots, playg for a lol Saturday team.

Not bee people were homophobic as such, but the other team would make rogatory my teammat found out I was gay, they alt wh like adults and we rried on playg.

Bee was homophobic, nobody did a thg. Bee was homophobic, nobody did a out as a gay player would be reer suici. ‘It’s about wng over hearts and mds’Dave Ravel, foundg member of ‘Gay Gooners’:LGBT people have been gog to football for years.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

We’ve got a member his 70s who ed to meet up wh other fans om other teams surreptly group serv three purpos – ’s a social group jt like other supporters clubs, ’s a safe and welg space for people where no one judg them or their sexualy, and the third is to do our part to kick homophobia out of football. “There’s still a small percentage that would react badly to a gay player, but the overwhelmg majory wouldn’t.

”There’s very ltle overt homophobia at gam at the Emirat, but there’s stuff behd the year, we go on London Pri and the club will tweet their bt wish. People feel they’ve got the right to be homophobic, abive and ankly vile on years two and three, we’ve found other Arsenal fans will stand up and say ‘I’m straight but I’m proud of the club for havg this iative’ a gay player, there’s the fear of reactn om fans. We want to work wh them bee we feel that’s the way to sort homophobia and make fans feel more ’s lovely to see the players wearg rabow lac.

I thk we n change the environment between , make those clubs welg unrstood that homophobic language is not acceptable football anywhere – the stands, the drsg rooms, the nurs. ‘I fd totally impossible to thk there are no gay footballers’. I fd totally impossible to thk there are no gay footballers.