✍️ "The game was paused momentarily during the first half after a report of homophobic abuse from the crowd directed at a Forest Green player..." "It will be dealt with in an appropriate manner" - Robbie Savage via @gloslive.co.uk #FvH2025 🩷⚫️

🩷💜💙 On #BiVisibilityDay, we're thinking about the experiences of our bi friends in the #LGBTQfootball community 🆕 Read our Q&A with Lewis from @proudskyblues.co.uk 🗣️ "Attraction isn't a straight line. It can change over time and context, and that's OK." @prideinfootball.bsky.social

🩵 September is the second anniversary of Coventry City’s LGBTQ+ and allies fan group @proudskyblues.co.uk, which is going from strength to strength! 🩷💜💙 … and Sep 23rd is #BiVisibilityDay, so a perfect time for a Q&A with the group’s founder Lewis Wale 🙌 🔗 Link in reply! /1

France 🇫🇷 Homophobic chants at recent Marseille and Lille matches highlight football’s failure to act. Collective Rouge Direct urges the French League to stop games when abuse occurs, condemning the silence of authorities and the Sports Minister.

Mexico 🇲🇽 The Mexican FA has taken Conmebol to the Court of Arbitration for Sport over sanctions for homophobic chants during Mexico’s 2024 Copa América games in the US. The FA argues measures were unfair and seeks annulment plus $500,000 compensation.

We're holding our #swfc Wednesday Pride event at the Niagara Centre on Thursday 16 October! 💙 Our packed evening will include an LGBTQ+ football discussion panel, so we can't wait to celebrate and explore our community with you. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ To book your FREE place ➡️ www.tickettailor.com/events/rainb...

Wirral man given three-year Football Banning Order for homophobic abuse www.birkenhead.news/wirral-man-g...

Phuti Lekoloane, recognised as Africa’s first out male gay footballer, has been honoured at the recent 18th South African Sport Awards. Find out more here 👇🏿 www.mambaonline.com/2025/09/05/a...

🏳️‍🌈⚽️🏳️‍⚧️ Take us back to #FootballPride 2025… 🫶 📸 Pics by our superb snapper Mili Domingos 🙏 Thank you to everyone who played their part in making last Friday in Leicester such a memorable day, full of Pride, protest and queer football joy! 🩷⚫️ Support FvH and @pridesports.bsky.social

At Wycombe Wanderers, an incident of alleged homophobic language prompts a club statement. #FvH2025

The ‘Life’s A Pitch?’ panel at #FootballPride 2025 explored experiences of working in the game when you’re #LGBTQ 🏳️‍🌈⚽️🏳️‍⚧️ Event co-host Jack Murley was joined by history-making footballer Josh Cavallo; player & coach El Finneran; academic Dr Beth Burgess; & Player Care Group founder Hugo Scheckter. /1

🏳️‍🌈⚽️🏳️‍⚧️ Our ‘Life’s A Pitch?’ panel at #FootballPride produced valuable anecdotes about working in the game when you’re LGBTQ. Catch up on the chat with Josh Cavallo, El Finneran, Hugo Scheckter and Dr Beth Burgess on @outsports.com, and listen on Jack Murley’s podcast. @footballvhomophobia.com

🗣️ “Those fines have been for nothing. And what has the federation done? Not much. And what it has done is useless” - Andoni Bello, on the failure of the Mexican Football Federation (FMF) to curb the anti-gay chant 🇲🇽 #FIFAWorldCup #LGBTQ Via @espn.com

✌️ A spirited show of defiance characterised #FootballPride 2025, not least in the panel chat focusing on the new and ongoing challenges facing LGBTQ+ fans 🏳️‍🌈⚽️🏳️‍⚧️ The @prideinfootball.bsky.social alliance of groups has a decade of experience to build upon - catch up on the discussion… /1

What a day! 🌟 Football Pride 2025 in Leicester brought queer football culture to life – with theatre, film, spoken word & inspiring conversations 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️⚽ Amazing to have footballer & LGBTQ+ role model, Josh Cavallo share his story with us! 🙌

✨ What a magical day in Leicester for #FootballPride! 🏳️‍🌈⚽️🏳️‍⚧️ 📸 Thank you Mili Domingos - @emilialdomingos on Instagram - for the fantastic photos 🫶

We attended the annual Football Pride conference in Leicester yesterday! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ It featured a string of empowering performance art and insightful panels, including one about trans inclusion in football. Thanks to @footballvhomophobia.com for putting on such an amazing and important event! 🙏

🏳️‍🌈⚽️🏳️‍⚧️ Josh Cavallo will be in Leicester on Friday to speak at #FootballPride 🗣️ “There really is no event quite like it – it’s joyful and uplifting, with a strong spirit of protest that’s fitting for the fractious times we’re living in” - @louenglefield.bsky.social, @footballvhomophobia.com More ⬇️

🏳️‍🌈⚽️🏳️‍⚧️ Smashing to have the superb short comedy-drama film ‘Solers United’ added to the bill for Football Pride in #Leicester on Friday! Don’t miss it! /1

📣 Here we go! Joining the #FootballPride line-up in Leicester this Friday will be Josh Cavallo, pro footballer and globally recognised LGBTQ+ advocate 🙌 Josh inspired people worldwide when in 2021, he publicly shared his story of being a gay man in the sport… /1

🎤 Bringing all the hot goss to the #FootballPride party, it’s our charmingly chaotic co-host, Becky Taylor-Gill! 🏳️‍🌈⚽️🏳️‍⚧️ The Studs founder is swapping the Counter Pressed studio for The Y Theatre stage - for one day only! and that day is THIS FRIDAY, 29th August 😮 /1

📣⚽️🎭 It’s #FootballPride week - and here’s a theatre announcement! 🌟 Ethan Pascal Peters’ new play ‘For Too Free Won’ - a superb LGBTQ+ comedy-drama about a group of top-flight footballers, their off-field lives, and queerness in the British game - is on the bill in Leicester on Friday… /1

🏳️‍🌈⚽️🏳️‍⚧️ It’s a pivotal time for the Pride in Football family of LGBTQ+ and allies fans groups - after the network’s first 10 years, what does the future hold? At #FootballPride on Friday 29 August, Joe White, Jo Bailey, Deborah Dilworth and Dr Jack Lopez will discuss on a panel… /1

🎥 Big screen signing! At Football Pride, you can see ‘We’ll Go Down In History’ which tells the story of award-winning club @trukunitedfc.bsky.social 🙌 🙏 Thank you to all involved in the film for making this screening in Leicester on Fri 29 Aug possible! 🎟️ ytheatre.ticketsolve.com/share/117366...

🎤 What a signing! We’ve got the awesome Andrew White, stand-up comedian extraordinaire and loyal supporter of AFC Bournemouth, on our bill for Football Pride in #Leicester on Friday 29 August (10am to 5pm)… only 1 week to go! 🎟️ Buy a ticket here 👉 ytheatre.ticketsolve.com/share/117366... #LGBTQ

JOIN US to mark the start of the biggest ever Women’s Rugby World Cup, as we launch Rugby Pride 2025 🏉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 with a breakfast panel and networking event in Manchester as the city also gears up for a weekend of Pride LGBTQ+ celebrations 🥳🎉 TOMORROW MORNING - Get your FREE ticket via the link below!

🏳️‍🌈⚽️🏳️‍⚧️ Completing our #FootballPride panel line-up for a chat about the future of inclusive WNB football is campaigner and former player with Clapton CFC, Tammy Hymas 🗣️ Tammy and friends will be looking at the next steps for teams and players who want to be part of a game that’s truly ‘For All’ /1

📣 Welcome to the #FootballPride line-up, El Finneran! We’re looking forward to welcoming the AFC Sudbury player and licensed coach to our event in #Leicester on Friday 29 August (10am-5pm) 💛 El will be among the LGBTQ+ panelists discussing their experiences of working in the game /1

🎤 Prepare for myndstate! We’re excited to be welcoming the acclaimed spoken word artist to #FootballPride in #Leicester on Friday 29 August 🙌 ⚽️ myndstate is a poet and writer whose work centres around topics of sexuality, identity, and mental health. He also plays football for London Titans FC… /1

💚 10 days to go until #FootballPride, and joining us on Fri 29 Aug will be Hugo Scheckter - the founder and MD of the Player Care Group will be sharing his insights ⚽️🌈 Hugo will be part of a panel exploring experiences of working in the pro game when you’re #LGBTQ+ /1

Today, the Premier League is back! Been reminded by some lovely friends that I have a starter pack of football gays, follow everyone on it if you’re also a queer who likes talking about football! 🏳️‍⚧️⚽️🏳️‍🌈 go.bsky.app/KH6QWHg

Refurb of ER is already under way! Check out our fabulous new banner for the Prem, still with pride of place right under the big screen 😍👌🏾 Big thanks to Jade and all the team at #LUFC for their ongoing support. 🏳️‍🌈⚽️🏳️‍⚧️ #ALAW

Spain 🇪🇸 Borja Iglesias faced homophobic abuse after Celta’s unveiling showed him with painted nails. Journalist Lucía Taboada denounced entrenched prejudice in football and praised the player for breaking harmful stereotypes. buff.ly/R5ztxTF

⚽️ Two weeks to go until #FootballPride 2025, which is supported again this year by the EFL - thank you for being a PRIDE SPONSOR on the event in #Leicester, on Friday 29 August (10am-5pm) 🎟️ Find out more via the link and grab a tkt! 👉 www.footballvhomophobia.com/footballprid... #LGBTQfootball

🧡 Vicky Park Queens player-coach Jordan Boulton will speak at Football Pride 2025, in the panel moderated by FvT campaign lead Natalie Washington ⚽️ Jordan will share her experience of inclusive WNB football, and how clubs and teams can continue to create welcoming spaces where everyone can play /1

⚽️ At Football Pride, we’ll look at the future for the inclusive game, and how clubs and teams for womxn and non-binary are adapting 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🗣️ Football v Transphobia lead Natalie Washington will moderate a panel feat. fellow players, discussing resilience and activism… @transsomething.bsky.social /1

More than a third of incidents referred to Kick It Out for fan education sessions last season contained elements of homophobia. @kickitoutofficial.bsky.social #LGBTQ #football 👉 www.instagram.com/p/DNQXadKMDT...

🤝 The League Managers Association is a PRIDE SPONSOR of Football Pride 2025, which will be held in Leicester on Friday 29 August ⚽️🌈 Thank you to our friends at the LMA for again supporting our annual event, which is dedicated to conversations about LGBTQ+ inclusion at all levels of the game /1

A column following last week’s #RainbowLaces news, and where the #LGBTQfootball conversations are at now…

🙏 We’re grateful to PGMOL for being a PRIDE SPONSOR on Football Pride 🏳️‍🌈⚽️🏳️‍⚧️ The organisation for professional match officials in the English game actively promotes LGBTQ+ inclusion; supports the LGBTQ+ Professionals in Football Collective; and is a champion for equality and diversity 🙌 /1

Lars Fellows has always loved football but turned away from the game when he transitioned. On the FvH Podcast, the #IKissedaBoy star speaks about finding joy again at Village Manchester. He also criticises the FA’s new rules for trans men: “It’s trying to say we don’t belong.” For @outsports.com

🎙️ We’re delighted to confirm that acclaimed football poet Sarah McCreadie will be among the performers at Football Pride 2025! ⚽️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Sarah joined the Wales women’s national team on their historic journey to UEFA Euro 2025, as the official team poet in Switzerland… /1

Did not have Phil Neville coming out strongly against homophobic chanting on my bingo card for this week. Story for @outsports.com on the “totally unacceptable” and repeated slurs chanted at Portland Timbers players, and the FIFA protocol not being followed. #LGBTQ #football #FvH2025

🙌 Let’s hear it for the fans! We’re partnering with Pride in Football, the UK’s alliance of LGBTQ+ and allies supporters groups, for Football Pride 🏟️ At the big event in Leicester on Friday 29 August, there’ll be a dedicated, fan-led discussion addressing the key issues /1

🏳️‍🌈⚽️🏳️‍⚧️ He’s passionate about supporting his Premier League club, and super proud to represent trans people on TV… Read what Lars has to say about Football Pride - 3 weeks to go! - and listen to the ‘I Kissed a Boy’ star in full on the Football V Homophobia Podcast 🎧 @footballvhomophobia.com

📣 Another announcement! We’re looking forward to Jordan Burrow joining us at our big #LGBTQ football get-together in Leicester on Friday 29 August 🧡 The #IKissedaBoy star has been vocal on the importance of having welcoming and inclusive football and sports spaces /1

‘Kick It Out says it received record-high reports of discrimination during the 2024/25 season with a rise in sexism, transphobia and faith-based abuse… ‘… reports of transphobia doubled…’ (via BBC Sport) #LGBTQ #football @kickitoutofficial.bsky.social

📣 We’re thrilled to announce that Lars from ‘I Kissed a Boy’ will be speaking at Football Pride on Friday 29 August in Leicester! 🎧 He’s also a guest on a new episode of the FvH Podcast. Listen here 👉 pod.fo/e/30ad20 🏳️‍🌈⚽️🏳️‍⚧️ Info & tkts 👉 ytheatre.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/... #LGBTQ #football /1