Justin Fashanu

Thomas Beattie

Sport
Jun 23 2020

Footballer Thomas Beattie comes out as gay, the first major league English player to do so since Justin Fashanu 30 years ago

Claude McKay, Roberta Cowell and Maureen Culquhoun

News
Jun 18 2020

5 of the most iconic queer heroes from history who deserve their own statues immediately

Troy Deeney of Watford

Sport
Jun 15 2020

Premier League star Troy Deeney believes every single football team has at least one gay or bisexual player

Ian Bishop gay football

Sport
Jun 09 2020

Ex-footballer thinks ‘ridiculous gay rumours’ are the reason he never made the England team

gay footballers

Sport
May 22 2020

Justin Fashanu’s niece is providing support to seven secretly gay footballers who aren’t ready to come out publicly

Five famous footballers are gay, says niece of the late Justin Fashanu

Sport
May 10 2020

Five famous footballers are gay, says niece of the late Justin Fashanu, Britain’s first – and only – out gay footballer

John Fashanu Justin Fashanu gay coming out

UK
May 01 2020

John Fashanu admits he did ‘a horrible thing’ paying his late brother Justin not to come out as Britain’s first gay footballer

John Fashanu spoke out about the death of his brother Justin Fashanu

Sport
Apr 28 2020

More than 20 years after gay footballer Justin Fashanu died by suicide, his brother John says he still feels guilty

Coronation Street

TV
Mar 11 2020

Coronation Street is doing more for homophobia in football than actual footballers

Justin Fashanu was inducted into the National Football Museum Hall of Fame

Sport
Feb 19 2020

First openly gay footballer Justin Fashanu finally inducted into Hall of Fame in heartfelt ceremony

Justin Fashanu of Norwich City. (Allsport UK /Allsport/Getty Images)

Sport
Feb 18 2020

Britain’s first and only openly gay professional footballer to be inducted into Hall of Fame

Vivianne Miedema of Arsenal

Sport
Feb 06 2020

Arsenal star says an elite male player needs to come out if football is ever to accept homosexuality

A rainbow corner flag flying on a football pitch

Sport
Jul 24 2019

Gay footballer deletes Twitter account: ‘I thought I was stronger’

Justin Fashanu became the UK's first openly gay footballer

Sport
May 02 2018

20 years after his death, why Justin Fashanu is still so influential to LGBT history