Patrice Evra has claimed that some of his former Wt Ham Uned team-mat would not shower wh gay players and would even ll for them to leave the club.
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- AS A GAY, MIXED-RACE WT HAM FAN, YOU MAY BE SHOCKED TO KNOW HOW I'VE BEEN TREATED OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS
- 'WT HAM PLAYERS SAID: "IF MY TEAM-MAT ARE GAY THEY HAVE TO GO"', PATRI EVRA MAK CLAIM
AS A GAY, MIXED-RACE WT HAM FAN, YOU MAY BE SHOCKED TO KNOW HOW I'VE BEEN TREATED OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS
We want gay football fans (and non-fans too! In the world of women’s football there are openly gay players so why should men’s football be any different? It was 2015 after all and the world of women’s football there are openly gay players so why should men’s football be any different?
Durg the 1990s, was a pillar of the homophobic lad culture that I enuntered at school, the media, on the stands when dad and I went to Upton Park, and the btal treatment of the gay footballer Jt Fashanu, who died by suici 1998. Ma up of members who are gay, lbian, trans, bisexual, non-bary and straight too, provis a space that offers the rt of society a lson how to get through thorny issu wh dialogue, humour and acceptance. Bisexual people are equently erased om the LGBT+ muny and I’d grown up wh prejudice om gay men as much as I had om the straight world.
“Too much racism and homophobia.
'WT HAM PLAYERS SAID: "IF MY TEAM-MAT ARE GAY THEY HAVE TO GO"', PATRI EVRA MAK CLAIM
I'm mixed-race, I'm gay and I've never experienced any are obvly que a few fans that still hold certa toxic views, and even some that will volise them. Furthermore, Evans isn’t gog back to a “normal job” – he’s performg ont of thoands, he is looked upon by young fac yearng to be the last few days, we have seen Wigan Athletic hire Malky Mackay as their new manager, spe an on-gog vtigatn by the Football Associatn to allegatns that Mackay sent homophobic, sexist and racist text msag while he was at Cardiff Cy. The only time I feel tached om football is when I read the headl created by those posns of power; over-paid, idtic-ment spewg dividuals who seem to want to be the morn-day money of the game wh the sexism, racism and homophobia of yteryear.
Dave Evans chats to Wt Ham fan Jim Dolan of Pri of Irons about his passn to eradite homophobia at football. He is the founr of a group lled Pri of Irons and as a gay man, is lookg to eradite the behavur and songs that make difficult for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr (LGBT) people to go to football.