Rainbow Laces - A discussion about the challenges for the LGBT community in football

The Athletic FC Podcast

The Athletic

Football, Soccer,, Sports, Soccer

4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

You’ll have noticed a lot of rainbows at football grounds in the past week or so. They are there as part of the Rainbow Laces movement, which aims to celebrate LGBT+ people working in the game, LGBT+ fans and create a discussion around what more needs to be done to make the game a more welcoming place for all. The Athletic's Adam Crafton, Alex Kay-Jelski and Nancy Frostick are all members of the LGBT+ community and in this special podcast they answer your questions on the challenges facing LGBT+ people in football and how we can make sure that the Rainbow Laces campaign makes a genuine difference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello. Hello and welcome to a special podcast from The Athletic.
0:19.2	This podcast will centre on Football's Rainbow Laces campaign and the challenges for the LGBT community within football.
0:27.0	My name is Adam Crafton, I'm a reporter at the Athletic and joined the Zoom call earlier on, I was joined by our editor-in-chief
0:35.0	Alex K Jelski and our Shepial Wednesday correspondent Nancy Frostick.
0:40.0	Alex and I are both gay men and Nancy is a lesbian woman.
0:44.3	Before we doubt deep into this subject, you can subscribe to the athletic by going to
0:49.1	The Athletic.com, forward slash Ornstein and Chapman, where you will also find a fantastic article by Nancy
0:55.6	examining what the Rainbow Laces campaign means to her and its power in the women's game.
1:02.1	So the way we are going to discuss rainbow lasers today is based on subscriber questions.
1:08.0	And the first of these areas of discussion that was brought into us was in relation to the campaign itself and the question says
1:16.3	I appreciate that this campaign is focused on helping LGBT QIA fans feel safe and supported but does it not ring a little bit hollow if there is not
1:26.1	a single out player, out male player. Is this fair or does this fundamentally miss the point of the Rainbow Laces campaign Alex?
1:36.8	I get really, really bored of everyone focusing Rainbow Laces on the subject of where are the gay
1:45.0	footballers for so many reasons. Number one, leave them alone. If there are gay
1:50.4	players out there then when they're ready and they feel that there's enough
1:55.2	support out there then they'll come out in their own time and that's not what it
1:57.7	should be about and in the meantime this campaign is about trying to create an atmosphere I guess is the right is the
2:05.8	right word so that that kind of feels more comfortable whether it be for gay
2:10.3	players or gay staff working at football clubs or gay fans which is like my
2:17.6	sort of area that I kind of bang on about quite a lot of people.
2:20.7	I'm married I have kids I walk around London holding their hands. We go out to restaurants,
2:26.2	we go all kinds of places like normal people. I would pretty much say that football is the only place
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