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TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
Is he gay? It followed, naturally, that I mt be gay. I am not gay and never have been, yet I beme a victim of English football’s last taboo.
The homophobic tntg and bullyg left me close to walkg away om football. It gave substance to the gossip that I was homosexual: Guardian rear equals gay boy. I got the imprsn they had not e across anyone like me before and the mours that I was gay stemmed om not ftg .
The more my supposed homo-sexualy beme a topic of humour, the more upset I beme. Everythg I did was ed as evince that I was gay. The variety of sults aimed at gay people beme my specialist subject.