Looking for an Albion fan from the LGBTQ community

[TSB]

****ing hell you lot.
What, did the school holidays start earlier than normal this year?

 

[Goldstone1976]

Sadly, I don't know the details other than abuse received because of her gender and as a result no longer follows Brighton.

Sad indeed.

 

[BBassic]

Ive just read the piece written by somebody from the LGBT community, are his views any different that people from those who are straight ? Just seems that it was added just because we have a large LGBT community and its trying to make the mag more appealing to them when in all honesty the piece could have been written by anybody !

I know right! It's almost as if people from the LGBTQ community are, GASP!, just people like the rest of us!

 

[Hugo Rune]

There are lots of different perspectives from diverse Albion fans which are valid and should be publicised. Take the pre-match rituals. Brewdog or Bulldog? Good beers or good bears?

 

[Captain Sensible]

In my mind, a football club should represent its community - simple as that.

Brighton and Hove is one of the most eclectic and fascinating places in the country and I want TAM to showcase this.

Acres of articles about the same element of being an Albion fan? Not that interesting.

Our eventual LGBTQ columnist can write about any issues they want to highlight.

So if you ask for a 'fan' & thousands of applicants apply, you can then choose which is in the demographic you prefer. The problem is you don't have a vast pool and excluded the majority in your request.
The mistake (if there was one, that went pages long) was in excluding a vast proportion in the first place based on sexual preference. It doesn't matter what pool you plan to fish from, rather you get to choose the fish. You excluded most of the fish with your initial request, many of whom i'd say are unhappy at being excluded, because they feel they would have written a good alternative viewpoint.

 

[W.C.]

People seem to literally enjoy being willfully ignorant.

 

[darkwolf666]

In my mind, a football club should represent its community - simple as that.

Brighton and Hove is one of the most eclectic and fascinating places in the country and I want TAM to showcase this.

Acres of articles about the same element of being an Albion fan? Not that interesting.

Our eventual LGBTQ columnist can write about any issues they want to highlight.

Now if you had included that last line in your original post we wouldn't have been subjected to 19 pages of drivel!

 

[Chicken Run]

Can someone tell me what the Q stands for in LGBTQ please?

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

At least the repeated point missing keeps the thread on the first page.

*bouncy*

 

[Brovion]

Oi! I'm a lower-median-upper-left-downer-middle-class wanker, thank you very much!

I'll let you into a secret .... I read it myself!

 

[The Albion Mag]

So if you ask for a 'fan' & thousands of applicants apply, you can then choose which is in the demographic you prefer. The problem is you don't have a vast pool and excluded the majority in your request.
The mistake (if there was one, that went pages long) was in excluding a vast proportion in the first place based on sexual preference. It doesn't matter what pool you plan to fish from, rather you get to choose the fish. You excluded most of the fish with your initial request, many of whom i'd say are unhappy at being excluded, because they feel they would have written a good alternative viewpoint.

You are missing the point completely and it's been explained many times in this thread.

 

[The Albion Mag]

Now if you had included that last line in your original post we wouldn't have been subjected to 19 pages of drivel!

You know this is North Stand Chat right?!

 

[The Albion Mag]

Can someone tell me what the Q stands for in LGBTQ please?

'Queer'.

 

[Chicken Run]

'Queer'.

Oh ok, what is it that's different about being queer as appose to Gay or Lesbian, genuine question.

 

[wardy wonder land]

Sounds like a prime candidate for the OP.
Abuse suffered at the football.
Why they left.
What has improved since then.
What needs to improve.
How they currently feel about football/Albion.

worst limerick / poem ever ! does not scan

 

[Captain Sensible]

You are missing the point completely and it's been explained many times in this thread.

I wasn't commenting on the content of the thread, but of the opening post. That post was the cause of misunderstanding that has led to this thread meandering.

 

[Easy 10]

Oh ok, what is it that's different about being queer as appose to Gay or Lesbian, genuine question.

At a guess, I'd say its probably something to do with 'taking ownership' of a word which has traditionally been used as a negative term for a gay person.

Or something.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I always thought the 'Q' meant 'Questioning'. Or 'Querying'.

Or something.

Tho this was earlydoors, before, say, HSBC, started to offer its transgender customers a choice of 10 new gender-neutral titles.

Tho I admit I've lost touch recently.

I guess they're probably called HSBCQUGTEKZSL now.

 

[mikeyjh]

Really? An Albion fan from the LGBT community who feels "excluded" from football. I would like to think that no such individual exists.

By Albion fans, or away fans? One would hope that Albion fans would be more tolerant that to do that.

Having belatedly read this thread - It's pretty obvious that Brighton (like every other club) have plenty of 'intolerant' fans.

FWIW, I'd be fascinated to read about the experience of a gay football fan. There is a fantastic group at Derby called Punjabi Rams who, very interesting talking to them about their experiences.

 

[The Large One]

Oh ok, what is it that's different about being queer as appose to Gay or Lesbian, genuine question.

Wikipedia attempts to describe it better...

'Queer' is an umbrella term for sexual and gender minorities who are not heterosexual or not cisgender. Originally meaning "strange" or "peculiar", queer came to be used pejoratively against those with same-sex desires or relationships in the late 19th century. Beginning in the late 1980s, queer scholars and activists began to reclaim the word to establish community and assert an identity distinct from the gay identity. People who reject traditional gender identities and seek a broader and deliberately ambiguous alternative to the label LGBT may describe themselves as "queer".

*Cisgender (often abbreviated to simply cis) is a term for people whose gender identity matches the sex that they were assigned at birth. Cisgender may also be defined as those who have "a gender identity or perform a gender role society considers appropriate for one's sex".

In other words, a deviation from the binary 'male' or 'female' with arbitrary traits of gender identity, irrespective of their gender assignation at birth. This is not the same as transgender, which is more specifically someone living as the binary opposite of their birth gender assignation.