The Natnal Football League clared, "Football is gay," a vio shared on Twter on Monday rponse to player Carl Nassib's g out.
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
* football gay moments 2020 *
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.
NFL PROUDLY CLAR 'FOOTBALL IS GAY' NEW VIO
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. 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.
RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB OUT AS GAY, THE FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO DO SO
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.
MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 104-YEAR HISTORY
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.