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In the United Kingdom, gay activists (and probably some closeted professional athletes) were all excited about 90-second film the Football Association was going to release to denounce homophobia in the sport. But last week it was canceled! Which meant folks like Peter Tatchell and John Amaechi were voicing their outrage! So is FA merely delaying its inevitable participating in fighting homophobia in sports? Or is it abandoning its once-heralded leadership?
Officially, FA says it needs more time to devise its anti-homophobia "strategy," whatever that means.
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Brody said :But last week it was canceled! Which meant folks like Peter Tatchell and John Amaechi were voicing their outrage!
They were not voicing their outrage that the ad was cancelled, they were outraged with the ad itself.
From website Outsports.com's Cyd Zeigler jr :
http://outsports.com/jocktalkblog/2010/02/10/english-football-association-pulls-anti-homophobia-ad/
Some gays felt the ad itself was homophobic, showing the horrors of anti-gay verbal and physical assaults. John Amaechi used the words “vulgar and horrific” to describe the ad. I haven’t seen the ad, but I suppose if you show how vulgar and horrific anti-gay abuse is, it’s going to look, well, vulgar and horrific.
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/121359/Anti-gay-ad-is-offensive-/
I thought the same thing.
Aqua
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It's a pretty poor advert. It is intended to do one thing and it achieves doing another. I see this advert as encouraging homophobia by glorifying it. The true message was really hard to understand.
All we really saw was an uncultured prick going about his day in a totally chavvy and pretty normal manner for an aggressive psychopath. The message at the end was pathetically weak compared with the general appalling behaviour exhibited.
I'm glad this advert was pulled. I'm also not sure that advertising is the right way to hit this audience. The issue needs to be targeted at the matches.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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UPDATE:
"Professional footballers have refused to appear in a campaign video against homophobia because they fear being ridiculed for taking a stand against one of the sport's most stubborn taboos, The Independent has learnt. Both players and agents declined a request by the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) to take part in a video which was to use high- profile players as figureheads in the association's drive against anti-gay prejudice.
The advertising agency Ogilvy, which was hired to produce the film, had advised that such involvement by well-known faces would be important if the campaign was to deliver the required impact. But instead, the FA was obliged to produce a generic "viral" anti- homophobic video – which was itself pulled earlier this week."
Read the rest here:
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/football-accused-in-homophobia-row-1897128.html
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timmy
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We are not talking of the most intelligent segment of society here. The gene pool is very shallow where most of these people are concerned.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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