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Bookmark or Share- How homophobia claimed the life and career of Justin Fashanu ... - AttitudeThirty years ago, on 22 October 1990, Justin Fashanu became the world’s first professional footballer to come out as gay. To this day, he’s the UK’s only top-tier male football star to declare his homosexuality while playing in this country.
- Justin Fashanu - WikipediaJustinus Soni "Justin" Fashanu (/ ˈ f æ ʃ ə n uː / FASH-ə-noo; 19 February 1961 – 2 May 1998) was an English footballer who played for a variety of clubs between 1978 and 1997. He was known by his early clubs to be gay, and came out publicly later in his career, becoming the first professional footballer to be openly gay. [ 3 ]
- Justin Fashanu: Gay footballer's life to be TV drama - BBC NewsA new drama is to explore the life of Justin Fashanu, the first top-flight professional footballer to come out as gay. BBC News looks at what the ITV series may bring to light, two decades...
- We know Justin Fashanu died. Now let us hear how he livedOn May 2, 1998, aged only 37, Fashanu stepped off his island once and for all. At a lock-up garage in Shoreditch, east London, Britain’s first £1 million black footballer, best known for...
- Justin Fashanu | British Footballer & LGBT Activist | BritannicaJustin Fashanu was a British football (soccer) player who was the first professional footballer to come out as gay. Fashanu was initially raised in the London area of Hackney, where his Nigerian father was a law student and his Guyanese mother a nurse.
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