{"id":652,"date":"2013-09-19T10:12:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T10:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/?p=652"},"modified":"2013-09-19T10:12:48","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T10:12:48","slug":"stonewall-challenges-footballers-to-back-gay-players-with-national-rainbow-laces-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/2013\/09\/19\/stonewall-challenges-footballers-to-back-gay-players-with-national-rainbow-laces-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Stonewall Challenges Footballers to Back Gay Players with National Rainbow Laces Campaign."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stonewall\u00a0has teamed up with leading bookmaker Paddy Power to challenge players to show their support for gay footballers by wearing rainbow coloured boot laces.<\/p>\n<p>The laces have been distributed to every footballer across all 134 professional clubs in the UK. Each player is asked to wear the special laces in their club fixtures on Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 September. The campaign\u2019s simple message of \u2018Right Behind Gay Footballers\u2019 is designed to kick start a change in attitudes and make our national game more gay-friendly.<\/p>\n<p>Everton became the first club to announce their support by revealing captain Phil Jagielka and other first-team players will wear rainbow laces at Upton Park.\u00a0 More &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stonewall.org.uk\/media\/current_releases\/9260.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/www.stonewall.o<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2013\/09\/rainbow-laces.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-653\" alt=\"rainbow laces\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2013\/09\/rainbow-laces.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2013\/09\/rainbow-laces.jpg 634w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2013\/09\/rainbow-laces-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>rg.uk\/media\/current_releases\/9260.asp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stonewall\u00a0has teamed up with leading bookmaker Paddy Power to challenge players to show their support for gay footballers by wearing rainbow coloured boot laces. The laces have been distributed to every footballer across all 134 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lgbt","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}