Dpe s bt tentns, football remas unwelg of gay fans | Football | The Guardian

Contents:

• DPE S BT TENTNS, FOOTBALL REMAS UNWELG OF GAY FANS
• NFL PROUDLY CLAR 'FOOTBALL IS GAY' NEW VIO
• RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB OUT AS GAY, THE FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO DO SO
• MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 104-YEAR HISTORY

DPE S BT TENTNS, FOOTBALL REMAS UNWELG OF GAY FANS

Some notable moments clu: Canadian footballer Qun g out as trans (who was also regnised by GAY TIMES for our Sportg Hero Honour), Lucy Clark buted on the pch as the first ever trans referee, footie journo Nicky Bandi also me out as trans, and a huge tone was achieved as Mara Gomez signed to the big leagu as a pro player for Argenta. You n read the GAY TIMES list of senators and legislators here.

This pneerg move means that all public schools will receive lsons issu faced by the LGBTQ+ muny such as same-sex marriage, same-sex parentg, homophobia, biphobia, transphobia and the HIV and AIDS epimic.

I, personally, am not even particularly offend by the moment; I jt fot that this was what was like, that spe the years of rabow lac and pta’s armbands, Sttish football – that is, men’s Sttish football – still has a problem wh homophobia.

NFL PROUDLY CLAR 'FOOTBALL IS GAY' NEW VIO

Ined, jt over half of Sttish football fans surveyed by the Equaly Network 2017 reported wnsg homophobic behavur at a football ground.

And yet while the polici agast homophobic language rema as strgent as that agast racism, the realy of enforcement is is, I thk, partly bee of the way homophobic language has imbedd self so eply to the Sttish vernacular as to seem almost nocuo.

In all my algs wh him he had never said an unkd word or treated me any way differently bee I was gay. Gay people are largely treated as llateral damage. I jt want to watch the people pot to the notable absence of any openly gay football players a major league as proof of the hospable environment.

RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB OUT AS GAY, THE FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO DO SO

He hung himself after beg acced of sexually assltg a 17-year-old boy the state of Maryland (where all homosexual acts were, at that time, illegal) his suici note stated: “I realised I had already been prumed guilty. ” However, I thk is fair to say that football clubs themselv are more welg plac to gay players than they ever were Fashanu’s time. Even if the prence of Malky Mackay as the SFA’s performance director – a man wh a known history of sual homophobia – is hardly hearteng, the environment for homosexual players is unniably more welg than ever has been.

A gay football player would not only have to al wh the evable hecklg of the opposn fans, but also wir society’s need to celebrate them for an attribute they never had a say ; a facet of their character that, unlike their skill as a player, didn’t take years of graft and trag. The dilemma any prospective gay footballer fac is that their reer would be overshadowed by their story. Whoever choos to bee the first openly gay profsnal male football player the UK would be fallg on a sword that would bleed them of their privacy.

MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 104-YEAR HISTORY

Bee until young gay players n see themselv the Premier League all but the strongt-willed will hang up their boots prematurely. Nobody should have to sacrifice their personal fort orr to prove that a gay player’s life don’t have to end tragedy. How is anyone expected to report homophobic language when the victims of s damage rema anonymo?