There seems to be an awful lot of fuss surrounding gay footballers at the moment.
It’s no secret that if you’re gay, and out, that you’re going to get some stick from time to time from various narrow minded people. And this is no different whether you’re a banker, pornographer, or soccer player.
However, the fact that a football player has to run about in front of thousands of people to do his job is going to complicate matters. How many people in the crowd will be homophobic?
Not every football fan is going to be homophobic, but when you get that many people in a place, where insulting the opposite team is the norm, the homophobic contingent will let their voices be heard, just to get an extra dig in.
Why not? It’s an easy blow. Albeit at the expense of an individual rather than the team.
It strikes me as an odd move to ask football teams to encourage their gay members to come out. I personally don’t feel that this particular sport is ready for that. Will more gays on the football pitch make the chanting go away? I, for one, doubt it.
Will more gays in a team make the homophobes take a different view on homosexuality, or will poster boys be ripped down from bedroom walls in disgust?
Attitudes are changing, but have they changed enough to guarantee that the majority of football fans will dismiss sexuality as an irrelevant topic in the soccer world?
Former Belgian soccer player Jonathan De Falco, who recently changed careers to become a gay porn star (now known as Stany Falcone in the Gay Porn industry) is quoted as saying,
“The soccer world is not ready for openly gay players. There are still too many prejudices and too little tolerance.”
Personally, I agree with Stany Falcone, and given the case of poor Justin Fashanu I think caution should be urged over bolshy demands for equality.
On a tangent, I applaud Jonathan’s decision to switch to porn (he switched after injury, not as a result of homophobia) as it brought me a welcome highlight while researching a dour subject. And gave me a chance to give my two cents without straying too far off topic.
Speaking of topic. Here’s Stany Falcone, looking happy and hot…
Edit: For those interested, you can see more of Stany Falcone here
