Welcome to professional football where the club is obsessed with the idea of ​​homosexuality in the 50s against the wall (Photo: Peter Knight)

Here it is again.

Normally, when you start talking about football with someone you know at a party, you close your eyes and your lips tingle.

They know I’m gay – I wear it like a sheer pashmina and have all the exciting hand gestures and exciting yearning.but gay When He likes football? No, that’s not possible.

They look suspicious since you’re involved. Adults turn to the magician of the child who presents the cardboard. They squeeze the joke and try to come up with a trick.

To top it off, they open their eyes in embarrassment because I want to be frank.

The delay is reduced only when I offer 2p. This will only be admitted by sincere fans.

Their faces are recognizable and bright, and everyone can relax!

But being gay and liking football isn’t as remarkable as you might think.

I played with a team full of them from the start and joined the gay friendly London Titans football club in the summer of 2008. It seems that not only the gays but also the street gamers are enjoying it, but the locker room is attentive, and not there is no doubt that the joke “Boy, please…”.

By the way, there is nothing like that. that What is happening in the shower is even more unfortunate.


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But why not play directly or with a “normal” team? Now the social aspect was a big draw, where else could I meet like-minded gays? When I moved to the capital in the summer of 2007, I wanted a friend, but to be honest, I planned to meet a special person. I didn’t mean to meet at Dog & Duck Rovers.

It was the first time he had played football seriously since the throw after school. Nobody in my family was interested in sports, but I played with my friends in the park at night until the ball was barely visible. Long ago my love of football preceded sexual maturity, hormones and the future of Guinea.

These two are completely different. Why is it annoying to knock on the door when you’re attracted to a man? Would you like to be aggressive? It’s not on my injury list, but it’s not. So I don’t think one love undermines another, but it’s an emotion that’s not universally shared.

The club plays in both gay-friendly leagues and “regular” leagues. 90% of the matches are played with respect and without problems. During the season, the name “phage” is often called due to one or two hotheads.

There was such an insult at the bar, but in the heat and exhaustion of the game, the words spread like a ball.

So what’s wrong? Why do you need a gay friendly team?

It is less demand, more desire. Socializing is a big part of Sunday football, so you want to be around people who understand you. In that company you feel free and comfortable.

The Southgate team takes a knee to defeat racism. Is it possible to hold similar protests to support LGBT fans?

But of course I play for fun. Soccer is not my job. If I worked in an office with an outdated and ugly culture of being LGBT, I would cripple the secrets, the fears, and the lies.

Welcome to professional football where the club opposes the idea of ​​homosexuality in the 50s. Or a fan? Is it an upset crowd why it took a British player 30 years to be able to comfortably talk about his sexuality?

Or is it a wild stain of British worship? Blackpool’s Jake Daniels’ reception on the pitch in August tells us. Until now, the truth is that we do not know.

Of course, the taboo will be removed. As a result, the World Cup hosted by the Middle Eastern oil nation, which bans homosexuality in prisons for three years, is even more corrupt.

However, Qatar can provide stone services.

England manager Gareth Southgate is concerned that LGBT supporters will not be able to travel. And isn’t it surprising when Qatar’s security chief says the rainbow flag will be removed from fans “for his protection”?

The Southgate team takes a knee to defeat racism. Can they hold similar protests to support LGBT fans, especially for locals who can’t dream of playing on a gay-friendly soccer team?

With the power of this problem alone, I have high hopes that this is the case. It’s great to see Roy Keane appraising Roy Keane for his gay treatment and praising Ian Wright’s pride and love for British LGBT supporters who were planning an award.

It is exciting to hear these three hours of words on television during the match. Some men find it hard to tell because it starts with g and ends with y.

Millions of school children across the country have been suddenly attacked by the words of the protagonist, which means “stupid, lame.” This is a stick that was hit on a girl in the classroom.

Maybe later in life, they didn’t look like those gay exiles arguing over town titles.


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