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• WOLV FED £100K FOR FANS' ANTI-GAY CHANTG VS CHELSEA
• CHELSEA: THE DEATH OF A GAY NEIGHBORHOOD, MURRED BY NEO-HETERO-HOMOPHOB
• CHELSEA GAY PUB THE QUEEN'S HEAD TO SHUT AFTER ROW OVER NEW LEASE
• LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
• THE 10 BEST LONDON GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS LONDON
• THE CHELSEA HAIRDRSERLONDONMENUHOTELS · LUXURYHOTELS · MID-RANGEHOTELS · BUDGETGUTHO & B&BSHOSTELSON TODAYBARSDANCE CLUBSLBIAN BARSCISE CLUBSSNASGAY SOHOMASSAGETHEATRECABARETSSHOPSGYMSCAF & RTRANTSSERVICATTRACTNSCY GUITOURSGAY MAPUK EVENTSGAY WEDDGSTHE CHELSEA HAIRDRSER
• LONDON GAY BARS

WOLV FED £100K FOR FANS' ANTI-GAY CHANTG VS CHELSEA

RtersJul 14, 2023, 11:24 AMWolverhampton Wanrers have been hand a £100, 000 ($131, 000) fe for anti-gay chantg by a sectn of their supporters durg their home Premier League game agast Chelsea April, the English Football Associatn (FA) said on FA has issued a plan of actn, which clus awarens of unacceptable behavur, that will take immediate effect and rema place for the g season.

"The punishment relat to the 'Chelsea rent boy' chant, which is fed as an anti-gay slur and was ma a prosecutable offence for anyone found to sg or e the words by the Crown Prosecutn Service January 2022, " the FA said a statement. Beg told that somethg is homophobic, that ’s hurtful to both many Chelsea fans as well as many wh the Liverpool fanbase, should be enough to stop anyone sgg . It should be enough, and given those who did attempt to start the song on Saturday after beg told of s homophobia by Kop Outs and Jürgen Klopp himself ahead of the match were, by most reports, quickly shut down, perhaps even will be.

Rather than tryg to nvce anyone for whom that isn’t enough, though, this article is tend as a rource for anyone who has felt trated tryg to expla the homophobia herent the chant to someone who sists they “don’t mean anythg by . ” For most, beg told a homophobic song is alienatg to queer supporters of any club, cludg fellow Liverpool supporters, would be enough to stop sgg the song. This article, then, is my attempt to pay forward: someone explaed to me, and I hope this n be a helpful gloss that n be ed for anyone who matas a willful ignorance so as to be able to keep sgg the song whilst claimg they aren’t exprsg homophobia while dog so.

CHELSEA: THE DEATH OF A GAY NEIGHBORHOOD, MURRED BY NEO-HETERO-HOMOPHOB

A recent spate of homophobic beatgs Liverpool speak to this fact.

It would not work if there was no associatn between the area the club is and gay people.

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While sex work is certaly monized popular culture, the punchle of this particular chant is specifilly to gay sex. The “gay” part is not cintal, ’s central.

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And if a joke reli on gay sex as the target of the punchle for to land is necsarily homophobic. They do this bee they worry that they would receive physil or verbal abe om homophobic people — often fans of their own team — if they didn’t. Chants like the rent boy chant — and reactns that suggt removg homophobic chants is beg “overly PC” — serve to remd queer supporters that they still don’t que belong.

A homophobic chant mak a queer fan remember that they don’t belong. But when a group of people sgs somethg homophobic, those queer fans are remd that realy they aren’t que part of that llective. While the chant self don’t explicly abe LGBT fans, what do do, both general and pecially now that everyone has been told ’s homophobic, is ntribute to the general hostile atmosphere many queer people ntue to experience.

If you thk the sual homophobia herent the chant — ed, the homophobia that mak the chant work — is not important, you are sayg that you feel that sgg a homophobic chant is more important to you than allowg other supporters feel like they belong.

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Lettg sual homophobia stand embolns explic homophobia. A club statement said: "Chelsea FC is mted to ensurg our club is a safe and welg place for LGBTQ+ people, and their iends and fai, and is lighted to be able to work alongsi other London clubs and football bodi, through this semar, to addrs homophobia, biphobia and transphobia and stop hate across the game. The semar will nsir what n be done to better support LGBTQ+ fans, how LGBTQ+ fan groups n keep diversifyg, and what is beg done to addrs homophobic, biphobic, and transphobic hate.

After beg lled "faggot" three tim durg the past summer while walkg the once-predomantly-gay neighborhood of Chelsea New York Cy, we cid to move. We loved Chelsea, but we had to leave her bee she is not the same gay neighborhood that we remember. The inic gay neighborhood of the past has been changed for the worse by the neo-hetero-homophobic-heterosexist transplants, who have reloted to New York Cy om small towns throughout the Uned Stat, brgg wh them their small mds.

Throughout the recent years, gay men and women have been evicted om Chelsea and have been replaced by heterosexual women and men, whether sgle or upled, younger or olr, llege stunts or workg profsnals, most of whom are not gay-iendly but, ironilly, chose to move to a well-known, predomantly gay neighborhood bee they wanted to live a trendy, pretty, clean and safe area wh a lot of wonrful shoppg opportuni.

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The old, wise sayg that the gays betify a neighborhood for the straights to va and occupy is so very te and real. An important qutn to ask is: do the heterosexuals who relote to Chelsea even know that was once a gay neighborhood, or do their heterosexist and heteronormative thkg and behavr make them obliv and egocentric?

Bee we wanted to feel weled, accepted, fortable and safe a predomantly gay neighborhood. ) We were faiar wh Chelsea bee, like so many other gay men, we were regular visors sce the mid and late 1990s, pg our own predomantly heterosexual and heterosexist -- and often homophobic -- neighborhoods Brooklyn for a taste of gay life.

Years ago, was a place where we were allowed and able to be our gay selv, whout beg embarrassed, ashamed, unfortable, ostracized, hated and judged. We gays were once the majory Chelsea, and was empowerg.

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Obvly, most of the new heterosexist, homophobic, straight transplants Chelsea have never seen real live gay men and women. Contrary to what some dividuals believe, a gay ghetto was never a bad thg. And a gay diaspora is not necsarily a good thg.

We gays have been forced to disperse, which mak more difficult for to une and fight for our rights and equaly. What is the next gay neighborhood?