‘Does your boyfriend know you’re here?’ The spatiality of homophobia in men’s football culture in the UK
@article{Caudwell2011DoesYB, title={‘Does your boyfriend know you’re here?’ The spatiality of homophobia in men’s football culture in the UK}, author={J. Caudwell}, journal={Leisure Studies}, year={2011}, volume={30}, pages={123 - 138} }
In this paper, I focus on football culture in the UK and the presence of homophobia in the men’s professional game. In particular, I explore how football fans, through sound and visual display, produce homophobia within the spaces of the stadia. In this way, I offer a contribution to existing debate surrounding the spatiality of sexuality and the social and political significance of sporting spaces. I demonstrate the normalisation of homophobic chanting and homophobic gesticulation, and suggest… CONTINUE READING
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