All VfL Wolfsburg teams to play with rainbow captain’s armbands. Josuha Guilavogui will be wearing a rainbow captain’s armband when he leads the team out for tomorrow’s opening Bundesliga game against FC Schalke 04 (kick-off: 15:30 CEST) and for all ...
UEFA have chosen to give the inaugural #EqualGame award to Georgian national team player Guram Kashia. The award aims to recognise a player who has acted as a role model in promoting diversity, inclusion and accessibility in European football and ...
The Republic of Ireland national football team will play the United States on Saturday – but neither team will be wearing their normal kit. Instead they’ll both be wearing tops with a rainbow flag incorporated into the design. It’s to mark ...
An online survey, conducted by the German Sport University Cologne, will gather the experience of the LGBTI community in and around grassroots sport. The questionnaire is available in six languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish and Hungarian. It is aimed LGBTI people who ...
Swiss Super League referee Pascal Erlachner has spoken publicly about being gay for the first time. Erlachner, 37, told the Swiss newspaper Blick he decided to come out because homosexuality in football is still a taboo and he ...
LGBT fans will be warned about holding hands in public and other outward displays of affection when in Russia for the World Cup next summer. A cautionary guide will be produced by Fare – formerly Football ...
Modern elite male British football is still waiting for its first openly gay player. Maybe Football Manager can help. In this year’s edition of the computer game, players come out. “Part of the reason we decided to do this is because ...
English soccer club Manchester United has come out in support of the LGBT community by becoming the first club in the UK to partner with an LGBT charity. The club will work alongside the Stonewall charity to “help tackle LGBT issues ...
Premier League and Rugby Union players across the country helped raise awareness of the discrimination facing lesbian, bi-sexual, gay and transgender people by wearing rainbow-coloured laces and armbands . The Rainbow Laces campaign was launched by LBGT equality charity Stonewall in ...
Adidas has announced it will kit out LGBT football club Stonewall FC next season, in an historic partnership for the 2016/17 season. Stonewall FC marked their 25th anniversary season with a fifth consecutive Gay European Title in Helsinki, and this together ...
