Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has urged fans to stop sgg anti-gay chants after abe aimed at Chelsea loanee Billy Gilmour on Saturday.
Contents:
- WHY IS 'RENT BOY' CHANT HOMOPHOBIC? YOU ASKED, GAY LIVERPOOL FANS ANSWERED
- YEARS LATER, HOMOPHOBIC ‘RENT BOY’ CHANT STILL TORMENTS GAY SOCCER FANS
- EVERYONE WELE? GAY FOOTBALL FANS PREPARE FOR FIFA WORLD CUP
- LIVERPOOL BOSS JURGEN KLOPP URG FANS TO STOP ANTI-GAY CHANTS
WHY IS 'RENT BOY' CHANT HOMOPHOBIC? YOU ASKED, GAY LIVERPOOL FANS ANSWERED
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YEARS LATER, HOMOPHOBIC ‘RENT BOY’ CHANT STILL TORMENTS GAY SOCCER FANS
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This was the first sign to be displayed a Premier League club stadium to bat homophobia.
A more memorable stance was when manager Jurgen Klopp urged “idt fans” to stop g a homophobic chant agast Norwich's on-loan Chelsea midfielr Billy Gilmour durg the first Liverpool FC game of the 2021/2022 season. Followg the match, Klopp ved Pl Amann to the Reds' trag centre Kirkby to discs the impact of homophobia football.
" Mr Ja claims “directly followg” Pl Amann’s s down wh Jurgen last season “there was a clear and purposeful behavural shift wh our supporter base agast homophobic chantg once our fans had been ted on the impact of what many didn’t realise was offensive”.
EVERYONE WELE? GAY FOOTBALL FANS PREPARE FOR FIFA WORLD CUP
Jürgen Klopp has strongly nmned the Liverpool supporters who directed homophobic chants at the Norwich midfielr Billy Gilmour, llg them “idts”.
Goal has spoken to supporters' groups reprentg gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr fans om around the Premier League, cludg at December 2020, Liverpool pta Jordan Henrson rpond to a gay Reds fan on Twter, who had spoken about how supportg his football club had helped him al wh his sexualy.
While havg an England ternatnal speak out so clearly support of gay fans was important, Amann feels ronat closely wh the outlook of Liverpool supporters overall, and plays to the ma role played by a group like Kop Outs.
LIVERPOOL BOSS JURGEN KLOPP URG FANS TO STOP ANTI-GAY CHANTS
“People unwtgly – the ma – have been transphobic and homophobic at Anfield, and is only through our fellow fans that the volume of those chants and behavurs have cled. Homophobia is no longer mastream, and that is ttament to an tn procs and an awarens of polics that we are fortunate to have Liverpool. "Some fans perceive as nothg more than nocent banter, wh a Liverpool supporter nicknamed Mac wrg on Tribuna: "This is what the world is g to, that a full on fact is gettg labelled as homophobic ffs.