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Brighton MP calls to end homophobic football chants From The Argus)
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Homophobic chant bandwagon
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Baron Pepperpot
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Wrote a blog yesterday on it, be interested in folks thoughts...
Yes My Boyfriend Knows I’m Here… | The Pepperpot Post
Yes My Boyfriend Knows I’m Here… | The Pepperpot Post
Very good.
Good piece, which would largely reflect my perspective.
Just a couple of observations:
1. I have experienced/seen genuine and offensive homophobic abuse at a match - just once, but it does happen and i think it's worth acknowledging that. Otherwise you risk bundling this in together with what I think we would both agree to be acceptable (albeit boring) stuff
2. On Graeme le Saux I may be wrong but seem to recall reading, or hearing an interview in which he said he found it hard to know how to react to the 'gay' stuff because he didn't want to imply that he though being called gay was an insult...
Pavilionaire
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- Jul 7, 2003
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Things are different now with mobile phones, but years ago on the final day of the season with promotion and relegation at stake I'd take a tranny to the match.
beorhthelm
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may i say in respect to the blog, this.
Baron Pepperpot
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Thanks for the feedback. I agree with you that a few chants are vile and hurtful. I think it is those that should be dealt with firmly, and if they are, without throwing those which are just banter in the mix, then the real issue can be dealt with. As regards Graeme Le Saux, it must have been hard for him. I didn't believe that he had issues with gay people himself.
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mejonaNO12 aka riskit
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Manx Shearwater
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Excellent. Agree with all of it.
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Insightful first post
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I think this is a good piece. I agree with the distinctions you are making; these are often glossed over in media discussions of so-called homophobic chants. Your points are given added force by the fact that you state you are gay yourself.
Bladders
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Did you get that from football rumours?
The Large One
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Sussex on Leith
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Excellent blog, and good counterbalance provided by the equally good response from "oldshirts".
Agree generally with your central point, and love joining in with "you're too ugly...", but it's also interesting to get the perspective of someone who's seen and heard the real vitriol at first hand. Thankfully, I haven't - though the furious looks on the faces of some of the home fans at the Den last season suggested that whatever they were saying (which I couldn't make out) was unlikely to fall within any reasonable definition of "banter".