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Contents:
- MEET VILLAGE MANCHTER FC: THE GAY FOOTBALL TEAM MAKG A DIFFERENCE
- CELEBRATG 20 YEARS OF FOOTBALL THE VILLAGE: SI THE ‘BT GAY TEAM EUROPE’
- MEN'S GAY/BI/TRANS/STRAIGHT CLIVE FOOTBALL MANCHTER
- VILLAGE MANCHTER FOOTBALL CLUB: MANCHTER’S GAY-IENDLY FOOTBALL TEAM
MEET VILLAGE MANCHTER FC: THE GAY FOOTBALL TEAM MAKG A DIFFERENCE
Village Manchter Football Club is a gay and clive club that wel anyone who lov football. We play lol leagu and natnal tournaments. * manchester gay village football team *
Village Manchter Football Club is a gay/bi/trans/straight clive club that wel anyone who lov football! We play agast gay and straight teams, take part natnal tournaments and anise an overseas trip most years.
CELEBRATG 20 YEARS OF FOOTBALL THE VILLAGE: SI THE ‘BT GAY TEAM EUROPE’
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“You nnot get rid of discrimatn agast gay people by discrimatg agast straight people. ”Steve Joyce is the manager of a gay football team Manchter and has been volved wh the club for over a .
If there’s anyone who knows about the tribulatns of beg gay the machismo world of football, ’s him. Village Manchter FC is a “gay and clive club that wel anyone who lov football. “Even among our gay players, some of them are massively sociable, love the village and are never out the village, and some of them hate the village and never go there.
MEN'S GAY/BI/TRANS/STRAIGHT CLIVE FOOTBALL MANCHTER
Village Manchter Football Club is a gay and clive club that wel anyone who lov football. We play lol leagu and natnal tournaments. * manchester gay village football team *
”Take Pl McCullen, who wasn’t overly ncerned wh fdg a club that accepted homosexuals but was stead search of homosexuals who were terted football. “It was actually harr to make iends wh gay people bee of my love of football, rather than the other way around, ” he explas. “I joed a gay football to meet like-md gay people bee most of the gay people I met had no tert football and had no tert me as a person bee I didn’t follow fashn or thgs like that.
“There’s kd of like an oppose to macho culture gay world, which is if you don’t know fashn and follow football, you don’t f . ’It’s a sentiment echoed by Joyce, who has always believed that a gay club should be accsible to all, rather than merely offerg help to one si of the divi.
VILLAGE MANCHTER FOOTBALL CLUB: MANCHTER’S GAY-IENDLY FOOTBALL TEAM
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”Name-llg of this kd may seem nsequential to some, but given that the FA has taken a stand agast racial slurs, why should be any different for homophobic language?
”“There’s still homophobia on the pch, ” Joyce agre.
“There’s still homophobia off the pch. We have had, the last uple of years, que ser homophobia om one of our Sunday league opponents. “Gay players are jt a b sred of beg straight teams through a fear of homophobia that might not actually exist anymore, ” Joyce ’s an trigug view and one which uld lk to the fact that no high-profile profsnal footballer has e out as gay the UK.