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Agreed. It's about being able to live the same sort of existence as most other people do: such as coming into work on a Monday morning and not having to worry about what you answer when the inevitable "Get up to anything nice at the weekend" question is asked, isn't it? That's what a lot of...

Just googled the new Leeds fans' LGBT support group. Here are but a few examples of the reactions from some fans to the announcement by Leeds United that they would be officially endorsing the group. The comment "all for LGBT people need to be protected from any kind of abuse but there is no...

This is news to me! If there isn't already a thread on WACCOE entitled "So when do we get a straight white male Leeds fans group?", I'll eat my hat.

Quite. I witnessed something very similar on a bus in Hove not long ago, where a group of teenagers at the back felt the need to pass comment and snigger at another passenger for the entire journey. If that was just a single, short snapshot of her life, I dread to think what other indignities...

Good point. Similar for a closeted player, one would think. Listening to the odd throwaway comment like "Don't be a poof mate" said across the changing room without even a second thought (nor even any true malicious intent). The old "sticks & stones" line really doesn't hold water in many...

Are we now stereotyping fans of other football clubs? :wink: Be interesting to see what some of our northern contributors think about this. Travelling around the country following the Albion, it's noticeable that the abuse is far more prevalent when you go further north: Yorkshire and...

Perhaps. But I'm talking about a situation here where a player comes out. There would be such an outpouring of support, I'd like to think even the most moronic of supporters would realise that it's not on to pile in with their caveman chants. Neither Campbell nor Le Saux were actually gay, and...

Agreed. Whilst some of the songs I've heard in the past (Bournemouth fans singing about HIV and so on) were beyond the pale, it's often the "little" stuff that is part of the problem. Even "Does your boyfriend know you're here" reinforces the idea that to be gay is somehow negative, different or...

Interesting to see Matt Lucas's view that, were a player to come out, opposing fans would "give you hell". I really, really don't believe that would be the case, and to suggest it would seems to me like a case of stereotyping in much the same way as he perceives would happen to said player...