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Contents:

• ONLY LADS : EE GAY DATG & GAY CHAT SOCIAL WORK
• JT FASHANU: BRA'S FIRST OUT GAY FOOTBALLER REMEMBERED ON HIS BIRTHDAY
• ANDRé LEON TALLEY DIDN’T LIKE THE LABEL ‘GAY’ AND NEVER HAD A HBAND
• LUTON TOWN PLEDGE TO VTIGATE ANTI-GAY CHANTS AT LEYTON ORIENT
• AM I GAY?
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS LEYTON

ONLY LADS : EE GAY DATG & GAY CHAT SOCIAL WORK

Talkg about his personal life, he is openly gay. Well, talkg about Layton’s personal life, he is openly gay. Only Lads: ee gay datg & gay chat social work.

@MrLayton is a 34 year old Gay Male. Gay.

"'Ups and Downs', wh s theme of snak and ladrs, is a metaphor for the turbulent, peripatetic life of one of Brish football's most mythic figur, who would have celebrated his 58th birthday on is among those helpg to keep Fashanu's memory alive at this time of year, wh Febary the signated month of actn for Football v Homophobia, known as The Jt Campaign when was found 2008.

JT FASHANU: BRA'S FIRST OUT GAY FOOTBALLER REMEMBERED ON HIS BIRTHDAY

As the game enunters h, high-profile cints of racism and homophobia - forms of discrimatn that afflicted Fashanu throughout his life - Yat' art ntu to spark important nversatns for all age groups. Football v Homophobia.

ANDRé LEON TALLEY DIDN’T LIKE THE LABEL ‘GAY’ AND NEVER HAD A HBAND

Fashanu's nfince, cultivated Norwich, was nspicuo by s absence fans hoped Fashanu would fd his goal touch, but stead he found God, addg another layer of plexy to his stggle to accept that he was gay. "There was the anomaly of him beg a gay man, and the church sayg you n't be. "Jt hadn't e out by that time, although we knew he was gay and the players already knew, whout actually speakg about , " says Clark.

He hadn't e out at that time as beg gay and although we knew the sre and so did our players, he was terrified about how people - and the media particular - would react if he ma public. "When the headle '£1m Soccer Star: I Am Gay' appeared on the ont page of The Sun October 1990, the story was a sensatn. His nial was put on the paper's ont page unr the banner headle 'I Am Not Gay'.

LUTON TOWN PLEDGE TO VTIGATE ANTI-GAY CHANTS AT LEYTON ORIENT

Eight years later, the knee jury meant his reer was limpg om club to club, and by now acctomed to a certa level of celebry, his personal life was a mody he was fally willg to was an evable sualty - Fashanu would claim to Gay Tim the followg summer that tall tal the Sun article about affairs wh unnamed Tory MPs and pop stars were largely unte - but was the ostracism that hurt him personally. He would regularly attend the Tuday gay club nights at Box Exeter, where Alan Quick was the rint DJ, and they beme firm iends.

As an advote for change, he has also brought the LGBT-clive msag of The Jt Campaign and Football v Homophobia to fans, clubs, unty FAs and other anisatns for well over a Jt he knew was always sg.

The anti-gay Sectn 28 had been troduced jt three years prevly, while the untry was still the grip of the HIV / AIDS crisis - the day after Fashanu signed for Torquay, Freddie Mercury passed away. Gay life Bra was unrground. Really, he was an amazg footballer and a great guy, who happened to be gay, and who suffered a lot.

AM I GAY?

What do he thk Fashanu would have ma of football's fight agast homophobia today, wh so many clubs and unty FAs supportg?

"Like Quick, Clark believ a gay male profsnal player who shared their tth now would be met wh acceptance. "I know the problems haven't gone away, but the game has shown a regnn alg wh racism and homophobia.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS LEYTON

' I uld sense he thought Jt was gog to be a sort of stereotype of a gay man.

"For some, he's a football in, and a gay in. Was he gay?

TIKTOK: How to e the ‘Who Are My Parents’ filterPhoto by Roy Rochl/Getty Imag for Tribe Film FtivalAndré didn’t like the label ‘gay’In an terview wh Vany Fair 2013, André said that he didn’t like the label ‘gay’ as he never nsired himself that and has only ever been love wh women.