Milwkee Gay Football Club: Tournaments

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• 'THE FOUNDG MISSN IS NOT TO EXIST': STONEWALL FC, A PNEERG LGBT+ SOCCER TEAM HAS CHANGED THE SPORT FOR GAY MEN, NOW 'S PHG TO ERADITE HOMOPHOBIA FOOTBALL
• WELE TO MILWKEE GAY FOOTBALL CLUB
• JOSH CAVALLO RECEIVED SUPPORT OM THE 38 PRO SOCCER PLAYERS AND CLUBS AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• MY HIDN JOURNEY: A PROFSNAL SOCCER PLAYER REVEALS HE IS GAY
• JAKE DANIELS: BLACKPOOL FORWARD BE UK'S FIRST ACTIVE MALE PROFSNAL FOOTBALLER TO E OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
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• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS NFL ACH OUT AS GAY US SPORTS FIRST
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

'THE FOUNDG MISSN IS NOT TO EXIST': STONEWALL FC, A PNEERG LGBT+ SOCCER TEAM HAS CHANGED THE SPORT FOR GAY MEN, NOW 'S PHG TO ERADITE HOMOPHOBIA FOOTBALL

Found 1991, Stonewall FC was the UK's first ever gay men's soccer club and is now the most succsful the world. A lot has changed for the LGBT+ muny the Uned Kgdom sce the formatn of Stonewall FC, the untry's first gay men's soccer club, Febary of 1991. Gay marriage has been ma legal, transgenr people n legally change their genr, and LGBT+ dividuals n serve the armed year, 2.

1 ln people, intified themselv as eher lbian, gay, or bisexual.

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Havg started out as a safe space for gay men to have a kick-about Regent's Park whout fear of beg abed or even physilly attacked, the club is now the most succsful of s kd the world. It has won 17 major honors, cludg ne IGLFA (Internatnal Gay and Lbian Football Associatn) World Cups.

One thg that hasn't changed for Stonewall, however, is s missn: to rid the game of football of homophobia, and more broadly, discrimatn missn, Stonewall's chairman Alexanr Baker says, means that an ial world the club wouldn't have to exist. "Adam Turner, vice pta and the self-profsed "W Brown" of the club's first team, add: "I thk my experience of 10 years, I've only experienced — not personally, but when I've been on the pch — a handful, or ls than a handful, of homophobic ments or experienc. Social media is a "battleground for hate"Those were the words of Sanjay Bhandari, the chair of English football's equaly and cln anizatn Kick It Out, after published a shockg report last year showg a 95% rise the reports of abe based on sexual orientatn the profsnal game durg the 2019/20 the grassroots level, the anizatn reported that 41% of fans had wnsed homophobic abe on social media.

JOSH CAVALLO RECEIVED SUPPORT OM THE 38 PRO SOCCER PLAYERS AND CLUBS AFTER G OUT AS GAY

"On a Twter photo posted by Liverpool FC pta Jordan Henrson December which picted him wearg a rabow armband to show support for the LGBT+ muny, hundreds mented wh vile homophobic, transphobic, and biphobic is a screenshot showg a selectn of the abe posted on Henrson's picture. WARNING: The image ntas homophobic sentiments.

Tacklg discrimatn English soccer mt e om the top downThe Football Associatn, English soccer's erng body, has, over past , put to place a number of iativ to help bat homophobia and transphobia, cludg the productn of a "Kick Homophobia Out of Football" film, the fundg of PhD rearch projects to equaly, and partnerg wh police and Crown Prosecutn Service to help brg offenrs to anizatn has also been an avid supporter of the "Rabow Lac" mpaign, which was lnched by LGBT+ chary Stonewall — which has close lks to Stonewall FC — 2013, and has been supported by clubs and players across the untry. However, spe such strategi, the most recent rourc available on the FA's webse on s plans to tackle homophobia and addrs clivy date om between 2012 and 2014, suggtg is both behd the curve and that such matters are of sendary importance.

Most worrygly, was only December that the anizatn's former chairman, Greg Clarke, was forced to rign over appropriate ments that clud scribg beg gay was a "life choice.

MY HIDN JOURNEY: A PROFSNAL SOCCER PLAYER REVEALS HE IS GAY

"When asked about Stonewall's ments, the FA's Chief Informatn Officer, Craig Donald, told Insir: "As a gay man and a member of the senr learship team at The FA, I know that the words ed do not reflect the realy of our anisatn or our pany culture, nor do they reflect the sire of The FA to ntue to work towards creatg a game ee of discrimatn of all kds. "Stonewall has long been makg stris this arena, havg bagged a shirt al wh Adidas 2016, jt shortly after won a fourth nsecutive Gay Gam club's most recent strips, produced by Adidas and lnched only last month, are sponsored by EA Sports.

Wele to Milwkee Gay Football Club's Player Page! Josh Cavallo me out publicly this week, beg the first gay player Atralia’s A-League to do so. Pl, some of the biggt soccer clubs the world have shared their strong support for Cavallo and his public claratn that he’s gay:.

JAKE DANIELS: BLACKPOOL FORWARD BE UK'S FIRST ACTIVE MALE PROFSNAL FOOTBALLER TO E OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

The days of gay athlet feelg like they will not get support if they e out publicly should be over for people across much of the world. Sce then, there have been so few visible stori of gay men our sport, pecially England.

German midfielr Thomas Hzlsperger, the only known gay man to play the Premier League, me out 2014, the year after he gay and havg a reer football never felt like an optn. Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, is gay, and the thgs are all football, there's still fear a gay teammate might dispt the team environment. Sometim 's bshed away, like homophobia isn't an issue football anymore.

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I have heard gay slurs fly around changg rooms and on the pch.

I mean, one of the worst thgs you n say to someone a sportg environment is: "You're so gay. The more I uld stay awake, the more I uld put off addrsg how I really a sophomore I was named the program's first-ever first-team All-Amerin.

This is nothg new for a closeted gay athlete. Do not fear the day where a gay athlete is wearg the badge on your shirt. After all, we uld be missg out on the next Lnel Msi, who jt might happen to be gay.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

Neher Milwkee Gay Football Club, nor INSERT LOCATION nor any sponsor of this tournament rri accint, health or any other type of surance for this tournament. Players are rponsible for their property and Milwkee Gay Football Club will not be held liable for lost or stolen property).

JAGUARS NFL ACH OUT AS GAY US SPORTS FIRST

"Blackpool forward Jake Daniels speaks exclively on beg the UK's first male profsnal footballer to e out publicly as gay sce Jt talks about g out to his parents, his club, and his team-mat.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

I n't really put a date on , but I was probably five or six years old when I knew I was gay. Zanr Murray signs for Bonnyrigg Rose to bee only openly gay player SPFL.

Jake Daniels: England's only openly gay active footballer reveals Tom Daley spired him to e out. Jt Fashanu: LGBTQ+ Norwich fan group raisg money to stall statue of first openly gay footballer.

At that age you don't really thk that football and beg gay don't mix. In school people even ed to ask me: "Are you sure you aren't gay?

It's been subject of beg gay, or bi or queer men's football is still a taboo. And people see beg gay as beg weak, somethg you n be picked on for on the football field. Of urse I am aware that there will be a reactn to this and some of will be homophobic, maybe a stadium and on social 's an easy thg for people to target.