Manchester City and PUMA share a long-standing belief that sport has the power to bring people together. Our shared view is that through sport we can celebrate diversity and empower people of all backgrounds to feel Brave, Confident, Determined and Joyful. Together, we would like to call upon your creative talent to take part in our competition to design a powerful visual that will feature on our official …
Social media boycott
Social media companies must do more to stop online abuse. That is why this weekend we are coming together with English football and other sports and organisations, to boycott social media and demand change. Football v Homophobia will join English football and wider sport in switching off our Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts, from 3pm Friday 30 April to 11.59pm on Monday …
USL partners with Football v Homophobia for Forever Proud Project
Football v Homophobia joins year-round LGBTQ+ inclusivity project designed to increase awareness and impact The United Soccer League (USL) today announced the creation of the Forever Proud Project, an ongoing, year-round initiative designed to increase inclusivity, education and awareness for the LGBTQ+ community. The Forever Proud Project aims to create opportunities and promote LGBTQ+ inclusivity across all USL communities. The …
Football v Transphobia Week of Action
The Football v Transphobia (FvT) Week of Action is taking place from 24th March – 31 March, ending of Trans Day of Visibility. It is the third year of the campaign, which started back in 2019, to highlight the positive contribution trans people are making to football and show how everyone involved in the game can be active allies to …
For the love of the game: 100 defiant years of womxn’s football
Goal Diggers Football Club presents: For the love of the game: 100 defiant years of womxn’s football Part of Football v Homophobia month & in partnership with The National Football Museum, artist Lily Grant, Football v Homophobia & FARE Many believe football is a man’s game. It is time to flip that script. It is time to change that narrative. …
Football Pride
Football Pride is BACK! Join us on Friday 25 August 2023 at Manchester Metropolitan University Business School with star speakers for a symposium celebrating LGBTQ+ inclusion and culture in the game…
Statement of support for Black Lives Matter
Football v Homophobia is an LGBTIQ+ campaign. We believe that football is a place where people should: Belong Be Valued Be Respected Be Supported to achieve their best We have witnessed the negative impact of racism in all its forms on the game we love. We have seen talented Black footballers struggle to access coaching positions at the end of …
Activism in 2020
This week the Fundamental Rights Agency for Europe published the results of its 2019 survey of nearly 140,000 LGBTI people throughout Europe. Titled ‘A long way to go for LGBTI Equality’, it makes for sobering reading. A majority of LGBT respondents (58 %) said that they had experienced offensive or threatening behaviour in a range of settings in the previous …
What activism means to me
I’m really pleased to be asked to write this blog entry reflecting on what activism means to me as the academic and research lead for FvH. For many years my academic life and my life as an activist in LGBT+ sports were separate. However, as time went on I started to realise that the ideas I read as an academic …
Why is activism important?
I have gone on a personal journey as an activist in the past few years. Calling myself an activist still doesn’t feel right- I’m not out on the streets protesting, or a member of a political movement. But those are the images I only ever saw of activists and are the people who I saw as the changemakers. I only …