Tag: football
Stonewall teams up with football trailblazers Homeless FA and FC United of Manchester
Stonewall have teamed up with community club FC United of Manchester and Homeless FA to continue working to tackle homophobia in football.
Turkish Halil Dincdag came out as gay in 2009 – then he wasn’t longer accepted as football referee
Halil Dincdag was labeled as mentally ill and stricken from the Turkish football referee list when he came out as gay. Now he fights for restitution.
West Ham Ladies footballer with dreams of playing in America found dead after battling depression
Katie Sheppard, 20, who played for West Ham Ladies, had sent angry texts to her partner in the days before her death
D1 football gets its first openly gay player
Following in the cleat-prints of Michael Sam, Arizona State Sun Devils linebacker Edward “Chip” Sarafin announced this week that he was gay. He is the first active player in Division I football to publicly come out.
Unfounded accusations from former Mr Gay in Denmark, towards Nicki Bille ???
Football player Nicki Bille is currently a name that you talk about in the media because he is accused of police brutality. Now a former MrGay Denmark accuses him for homophobia, but Nicki denies the accusations.
GLAAD and over 25 organizations: FIFA must take action on homophobia in soccer
GLAAD, the America’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy organization, along with over 25 U.S. and international LGBT and human rights organizations sent a letter today to FIFA demanding concrete action to address homophobia in the game and anti-gay chants yelled in the stands. In advance of the 2018 World Cup in Russia and the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, GLAAD also announced a continued campaign to educate FIFA and corporate sponsors about the standing anti-LGBT laws in both of those countries.