Gay people are largely treated as collateral damage. Referees at least know what they are signing up for. Most football fans, you would guess, don’t want referees to take their insults to heart it is just part of the game, the passion for the team they love expressed in a verbal tirade against a dubious decision. Just listen to the language hurled at referees and officials (or observe their dwindling retention rates, particularly of those working in amateur leagues). It’s just, in football, abuse of all kinds has traditionally come with the territory. The trouble was he ended up inferring that those were immutable characteristics of, well, me.īecause the problem isn’t really that fans are aiming to make football grounds an inhospitable environment for LGBT people. He meant to good-naturedly tease my colleague for being a “wimp” or a “coward”.
In all my dealings with him he had never said an unkind word or treated me in any way differently because I was gay. Quickly realising his faux pas, he proceeded to profusely apologise: “You know I didn’t mean it in that way,” he said.
Once, while I was working as a tour guide, an older bloke I worked with jokingly called a straight colleague a “poof” in front of me. This is, I think, partly because of the way homophobic language has imbedded itself so deeply into the Scottish vernacular as to seem almost innocuous. And yet while the policies against homophobic language remain as stringent as that against racism, the reality of enforcement is different. Empowering fans to report instances of unacceptable abuse has yielded real results, such as the two Hearts fans given indefinite bans in 2018 because their fellow supporters alerted the club’s staff to the racist abuse they had been spouting from the stands. The zero-tolerance approach of clubs towards racism has been commendable. While rugby fans are praised for the welcoming atmospheres they create at Murrayfield, the same cannot be said for the crowds that gather weekly in the grounds of football stadiums across the nation. Indeed, just over half of Scottish football fans surveyed by the Equality Network in 2017 reported witnessing homophobic behaviour at a football ground. I am proud of everyone on the JFF platform, and this list is a microcosm of that diversity." The top 15 are rounded out by accounts like Krave Melanin, Cade Maddox, and Rocco Steele.According to a 2016 survey by Stonewall Scotland, of the people who had witnessed anti-LGBT abuse at a sporting event, 82% had witnessed it at a football game. "It is the point of a platform like JFF where everyone stands an equal chance of being successful.
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