Stonewall Calls For Football Stewards To Identify And Report Anti-LGBT+ Chants
The LGBT+ rights charity group Stonewall has asked for stewards to be trained to identify and report anti-LGBT+ abuse in the stands.
“We need to see more training specifically targeted at stewards – they need to feel more confident in knowing what LGBT+ discrimination looks like,” Stonewall UK’s director of Sport, Robbie de Santos, said in a statement.
According to ‘Sports Mole’, Mr. De Santos added stewards “know what racism looks like” but there is a “grey area” that should not be there with regards to anti-LGBT language.
He said that lifetime bans “don’t necessarily have to be the only answer” adding that punishment should be given to change behaviour.
Tracy Brown, co-chair of LGBT+ fan group Chelsea Pride said about a recent Chelsea game that “I was getting messages from people watching at home who could clearly hear it.
“The FA need to treat homophobia the same as every other form of discrimination and investigate the incident.”
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