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Are AFL fans more homophobic than Rugby League fans at the Game...
Bear with me folks...this is a serious question.
I'm from Sydney and I am a Rugby League fan. I follow Souths Sydney Rabbitohs and I go to most games.
I have a gay friend at work who used to follow League but now only goes to Sydney AFL games because the crowd there are more accepting of him. I took this to mean that his non gay friends he goes with know about him and absolutely don;t mind it a bit and he tells me that people he has met there (straight) don;t bat an eyelid.
I asked this very same question in Leagueunlimited forum that I frequent and it generated a pretty long discussion (most of it treated seriously). One of the main things I learnt is that Sydney AFL supporters are perhaps too different to Victorian or SA regular AFL fans.
Without pre-empting any further I throw this question to the AFL fans.
Do you reckon that AFL fans are generally more homophobic than RL fans at the game.
For the record RL fans seem to think they generally are not but since I have not experienced what the crowd chant, yell or how they abuse down in Vic I cannot make a comparison.
Homophobia definition for this purpose to mean: Fear of, or seemingly being gay for associating with, gay people.
I'll ask on big question later on which really really test your answers... you might want to carefully access your attitudes with these Q's
1) Would you take a gay freind to the footy?
2) Would you want your friends to know you have taken a gay person to the footy
3) If your club started a "pink" supporter group would you sit/stand anywhere near them if they were wearing your club colours?
I'll pose a few more questions later.
Also, please, I am asking this for some serious research into an article I am writing. I also want to point out that as a League fan I object to the use of the term GayFL. I do hear it a lot and it's in a way what prompted the discussion with my gay friend as I mentioned earlier.
Thanks for your patience and I look forward to reading your views.
Salut!
Bear with me folks...this is a serious question.
I'm from Sydney and I am a Rugby League fan. I follow Souths Sydney Rabbitohs and I go to most games.
I have a gay friend at work who used to follow League but now only goes to Sydney AFL games because the crowd there are more accepting of him. I took this to mean that his non gay friends he goes with know about him and absolutely don;t mind it a bit and he tells me that people he has met there (straight) don;t bat an eyelid.
I asked this very same question in Leagueunlimited forum that I frequent and it generated a pretty long discussion (most of it treated seriously). One of the main things I learnt is that Sydney AFL supporters are perhaps too different to Victorian or SA regular AFL fans.
Without pre-empting any further I throw this question to the AFL fans.
Do you reckon that AFL fans are generally more homophobic than RL fans at the game.
For the record RL fans seem to think they generally are not but since I have not experienced what the crowd chant, yell or how they abuse down in Vic I cannot make a comparison.
Homophobia definition for this purpose to mean: Fear of, or seemingly being gay for associating with, gay people.
I'll ask on big question later on which really really test your answers... you might want to carefully access your attitudes with these Q's
1) Would you take a gay freind to the footy?
2) Would you want your friends to know you have taken a gay person to the footy
3) If your club started a "pink" supporter group would you sit/stand anywhere near them if they were wearing your club colours?
I'll pose a few more questions later.
Also, please, I am asking this for some serious research into an article I am writing. I also want to point out that as a League fan I object to the use of the term GayFL. I do hear it a lot and it's in a way what prompted the discussion with my gay friend as I mentioned earlier.
Thanks for your patience and I look forward to reading your views.
Salut!
