Euro Pride House 2016

Win a signed copy of “We’re Queer and we should be here”

We’re Queer and we should be here: the perils and pleasures of being a gay football fan On the cusp of a football season where players’ sexuality will once again be in the spotlight, the memoir of a black, gay football fan has gone to the top of the bestsellers list of gay biographies sold by Amazon. The book is the debut novel of campaigner Darryl Telles and charts his nearly 30 year journey from one of the first members of the Gay Football Supporters Network to today, where he has been an out season ticket holder at Spurs. Now [...]

EGLSF2020-04-19T16:58:18+02:00Friday, September 8th, 2017 @ 11:15|Categories: 2017, Euro Pride House 2016, Football, Members|0 Comments

EGLSF attend Football Pride Week

From the 05 – 09 October 2016, football fans hosted an international conference on homophobia in football. The EGLSF was represented by John Ryan and Sarah Townsend. The much-discussed coming out of an active professional footballer is still pending. Fans are often seen as the main problem in this process. But other football fans, ones that stand up against homophobia and engage for an open football culture, they exist too. Against this background, Football Fans Against Homophobia (FFAH), Queer Football Fanclubs (QFF) and Football Supporters Europe (FSE), together with the Federation of Gays and Lesbians in Berlin-Brandenburg (LSVD) are for [...]

EGLSF2016-11-02T13:16:58+01:00Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016 @ 12:17|Categories: 2016, 2016, Euro Pride House 2016, News, Projects, Sport|0 Comments

Did you attend a Euro Pride House?

Have you ever attend a Pride House? Have you ever asked yourself what it is for? Before I went to France this summer, I could say ‘no’ on the first question and give, therefore, only a theoretical explanation on the second one. I’ve been very curious about the Euro Pride House at the European Football Cup 2016. I had so many questions about its organisation, its participants, its program and its support from the authorities… With the help of the EGLSF, Queering Football, FSGL and the French Embassy in Moscow, I got a chance to get a great experience and [...]

EGLSF2016-08-03T16:17:10+02:00Wednesday, August 3rd, 2016 @ 16:17|Categories: 2016, 2016, Euro Pride House 2016, News, Projects|0 Comments