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Professional footballers in England and Scotland have been asked to back a campaign addressing homophobia in the game by wearing rainbow laces in their boots next weekend.

Sets of laces have been sent to all Premier League and Football League clubs, plus the 42 teams in the Scottish Professional Football League, by the gay rights charity Stonewall.
The Right Behind Gay Footballers campaign is focused on changing attitudes in football rather than urging players to come out and wants players to wear the laces in games on 21 and 22 September.
Laura Doughty, deputy chief executive of Stonewall, which is being backed by the bookmaker Paddy Power, said: "It's time for football clubs and players to step up and make a visible stand against homophobia in our national game. By wearing rainbow laces players will send a message of support to gay players and can begin to drag football into the 21st century."
QPR's Joey Barton tweeted his support for the campaign, writing: "Show that people's sexuality shouldn't be an issue. Join the rainbow laces movement."
There are no known openly gay footballers in the English and Scottish professional leagues. The former Leeds and United States winger Robbie Rogers retired in February, announcing his sexuality and claiming he could not have continued his career due to the "pack mentality" that changes the way footballers behave. He later reversed his decision to quit the game and signed for the LA Galaxy.
Before Rogers' revelation, only two footballers had publicly said they were gay. The former England Under-21 international Justin Fashanu was the first professional footballer in Britain to come out, in 1990, before he took his own life eight years later, aged 37.
A Swedish lower league player, Anton Hysen, son of the former Liverpool defender Glenn Hysen, also came out in an interview with a Swedish football magazine in 2011.

 

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Bookmaker Paddy Power has teamed up with gay rights charity Stonewall for an ad campaign that aims to tackle homophobia in football.

The campaign, Right Behind Gay Footballers, will see print ads and billboards run with provocative straplines.
One ad uses the line "Over 5,000 footballers and none of them are gay. What are the odds on that?", while another runs with the message: "We don't care which team you play for".
Rainbow laces have been sent to all Premier League and Football League clubs, plus the 42 teams in the Scottish Professional Football League, to highlight the issue.
The campaign is also being pushed on social media, with the backing of supporters including Joey Barton – who has had almost 1,000 retweets of his call for players to support the cause by wearing the laces – Stephen Fry and Labour leader Ed Miliband.
"Show that people's sexuality shouldn't be an issue. Join the rainbow laces movement," tweeted Barton.
The aim of the campaign, which has been developed by ad agency Lucky Generals and and CP+B, is not to force players to "come out" but to try to change attitudes in the UK.
"In most other areas of life people can be open about their sexuality and it's time for football to take a stand and show players it doesn't matter what team they play for," said a Paddy Power spokesman.
In Britain, no professional footballer has come out and continued his career since Justin Fashanu in 1990. He stopped playing in 1994, but hanged himself four years later, aged 37.
"It's time for football clubs and players to step up and make a visible stand against homophobia in our national game," said the Stonewall deputy chief executive, Laura Doughty.

 

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The aim of the campaign, which has been developed by ad agency Lucky Generals and and CP+B, is not to force players to "come out" but to try to change attitudes in the UK.

 

Not Lucky Pierre thankfully.

 

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lucky%20pierre&page=2

 

Lucky Pierre:

 

The man in the middle of a homosexual threesome. He is getting fucked by one man while giving oral to another man.
Look at him being all greedy! He is always Lucky Pierre!

 

The middle person in an all-male three way. It is not necessarily the term for an all male threesome; it is simply "the Cat" in the middle.
After a hard day in the oil industry, the Cat often likes to relax on the golf course with his partner. However, he does not get outraged when another man asks to join his twosome, because he is used to being the Lucky Pierre.
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Professional footballers in England and Scotland have been urged to show their support for an anti-homophobia campaign this weekend.

Players from all Premier League, Football League and Scottish Professional Football League clubs have been invited to wear rainbow laces in their boots in an attempt to raise awareness and stamp out homophobia in the sport.

The campaign has been arranged by the lesbian, gay and bisexual charity Stonewall, in conjunction with bookmakers Paddy Power.

Stonewall's head of policy Sam Dick explained: "A pair of these laces is going to every professional footballer in the UK.

"We're encouraging as many players as possible to wear those laces this weekend, in order to show their support for gay players and to say homophobia has no place in UK football.

"The reaction has been overwhelmingly positive so far. Joey Barton (of QPR) is definitely going to wear them and we're encouraging as many fans as possible to show their support on Twitter, #RBGF (Right Behind Gay Footballers), while encouraging their clubs to wear the laces as well.

"The reason why it's important is that, unlike almost every other industry in the UK, there are no openly gay people performing in football.

"That's very unusual. We know there must be gay players and one of the reasons why they might not feel able to come out is because they don't feel their team mates will support them.

"This is a way for their team mates to show their support."

The Right Behind Gay Footballers campaign is focused on changing attitudes in football and Stonewall deputy chief executive Laura Doughty said: "It's time for football clubs and players to step up and make a visible stand against homophobia in our national game.

"By wearing rainbow laces players will send a message of support to gay players and can begin to drag football into the 21st century."


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