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LGBT-CLIVE CHAIR: 'I’M A FOOTBALL FAN - THE FACT I’M GAY IS IRRELEVANT'
Instead, he foc on the club he chairs which was promoted the 2019 Wimbledon and District League and holds three Gay Football Supporters Network Natnal League and four London Uny League tl. “We lnched 2006 as a team for maly gay and bisexual men who perhaps felt they had fallen out of love wh the game, ” says Will, a teacher who today liv Wandsworth.
It uld have been playg match where they saw homophobic behavur on the pch and maybe seen people on their team not stand up. “They’d see teams and hear the odd homophobic ment or what’s monly named as ‘banter’. “That’s really what we wanted to do, to create a place where we are a group of people who love football… we jt also happen to be a group of largely gay and bisexual men.
London Falns began playg teams the London Uny league and Gay Football Supporters Network, where they enjoyed succs. They’ve had one cint of homophobic abe three years, but beyond London Falns Will says LGBT+ players still feel disfort ‘mastream’ sis. “I do feel sadly there do still exist a culture wh football of some sort of ‘other’ or difference between straight and gay footballers.