🗣️ “My #LGBTQfootball team helped to create the space for me to come out” - @charlgsport.bsky.social ⚽️🌈

🗣️ “I’m sure queer sports clubs will enable many more people to come out and find their tribes” - Craig Stephenson

Two EuroGames Cardiff 2027 team members share their stories on Coming Out Day… 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The @footballvhomophobia.com campaign says it is “deeply concerned” by new statistics on homophobia in grassroots football and the lack of charging of perpetrators.

FA data shows homophobia in grassroots football rose by more than 35% last season.

sportsmedialgbt.com/grassroots-f...

NEW: Mal and Smasher are part of the brilliantly named "Super Smash Brollers" at East Midlands Open Roller Derby. In July, they put a ring on it and got engaged 💕!

Their #rollerderby team has signed the #RainbowLaces Proud Pledge. To mark RL Day, here's an #LGBTQsports story with lots of love...

The joy of being active should be something everyone can experience. 🌈

On #RainbowLacesDay, we're sharing our partner story on trans and non-binary inclusion in physical activity and the power of creating spaces where everyone feels they belong.

🔗 https://ow.ly/cg9n50ZVLJl

#ActiveLivesForAll

🌈👟 RAINBOW LACES DAY 👟🌈

This year @stonewalluk.bsky.social 's day for LGBT+ mental health and movement is asking everyone to take ONE action today!

#MoveWithPride #RainbowLaces #Stonewall #LGBTCharity #LGBTSports

Happy #RainbowLacesDay 🌈! Great to set this back on the calendar - an awareness activation for a campaign that will always be significant to me…

📸 www.instagram.com/p/DeOrqPItqt...

#RainbowLaces @stonewalluk.bsky.social @sportsmedialgbt.com

🏏 “What we’ve always tried to do here at @merseyrose.bsky.social is create a welcoming environment in which participation is more important than competitiveness” - club captain Andi Page

Take an action for #RainbowLacesDay! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #LGBTQsports

@stonewalluk.bsky.social @out4cricket.bsky.social

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🌈 It’s Rainbow Laces Day - time to lace up and show support for LGBTQ inclusion in sports, just like Mersey Rose Recreationals Cricket Club…

✍️ “The friendly club” was an early adopter of the Proud Pledge, a way to clearly display the values that underpin the #RainbowLaces campaign

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Gay college athlete traded cheerleading for soccer and found the family he needed - buff.ly/Lmt45Ua

“It was like he was wiped off the face of the earth.”

Tony Powell, a former English top flight star, vanished 40 years ago. His story is told in The Last Guest at the Holloway Motel.

It is a powerful, emotional and important watch. For @theathleticfc.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/athletic/765...

⚽️ Nearly 1,000 reports of homophobia were made in grassroots football in England in 2025/26, up by 35% compared to 2024/25 - yet the number of FA charges for this type of discrimination rose by just 2%.

Football v Homophobia says investment in achieving “better outcomes” is needed.

#FvH2026 #LGBTQ

🇯🇵 Huge news in Japan, as volleyball player Rui Takahashi becomes the first athlete in the history of men’s pro sports in the country to come out as gay.

For @outsports.com, Olympians Erik Shoji, Tim Koleto and Javier Raya have all shared their thoughts and sent goodwill messages to Rui… 🏳️‍🌈 #LGBTQ

If you haven't yet watched Kylie's AFL Grand Final pre-game show, go check it out!

Thanks to Chris at @joy949.bsky.social's "GayFL" for giving me the queer lowdown on what happened at the MCG, and the awesome podcast he's created with his husband, Brendan.

For @outsports.com

#LGBTQsports #AFL

⚽️🌈 ICYMI over the weekend - a new episode of the FvH Podcast is OUT, previewing this Saturday’s FSA and @prideinfootball.bsky.social forum event in Nottingham.

🎧 Listen here - pod.fo/e/65801d

👀 Info + 🎟️ link - www.footballvhomophobia.com/lgbtq-fan-gr...

#StrongerTogether #LGBTQfootball

NEW: A summit for football fans who are #LGBTQ or allies is being held in Nottingham on Saturday.

Martin Hyland, founder and chair of Proud Forest, tells the FvH Podcast that the event is “a great starting point” for anyone new to the game’s queer community…

#LGBTQfootball @proudforest.bsky.social

Big in Japan: Meet the giant athlete who’s the only out active pro player in his sport - www.outsports.com/2026/9/23/24...

NEW: The FvH Podcast returns, with an episode focusing on #LGBTQfootball supporters groups ahead of the ‘Stronger Together’ event in Nottingham on October 3.

Cass from @rainbowdevils.bsky.social and Martin from @proudforest.bsky.social join Jon for a chat! 🎧⚽️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@prideinfootball.bsky.social

🏉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌈 It’s been so uplifting to see Kyle Tayler-Woolston’s rugby story reaching so many people… check out the short film by S4C featuring the Newport RFC flanker, his husband George, and teammate Chay

(Interviews are in English)

@igrugby.bsky.social @pridesportscymru.bsky.social

#LGBTQsports

🗣️“People who are our friends, teammates and supporters have been detained or jailed... They are part of the closest circle around our groups.”

The anti #LGBTQ crackdown in Turkey is impacting on queer sports clubs. For @outsports.com, I spoke to leaders of two teams who fear for their future.