How His Career Might Have Been Different

Feb 10, 2025 ... Justin Fashanu: The First Openly Gay Footballer ⚽🏳️‍ In 1990, Justin Fashanu became the first professional footballer to come out as gay—but ... Book overview. For over 20 years Justin Fashanu was the only professional footballer anywhere in the world who had come out as gay ... On 22 October 1990, Justin Fashanu came out of the closet as the first openly gay professional football (soccer) player in the world. After learning that ... The life of Justin Fashanu, the first footballer to come out as gay, and his brother John Fashanu, is to be turned into an ITV drama from BAFTA-nominated ... Dec 2, 2022 ... Life of footballers Justin and John Fashanu being adapted into ITV drama ... The life of Justin Fashanu, the first professional footballer in ... Jun 11, 2023 ... the first openly gay professional men's footballer — one of England's most headline-grabbing stars of the 80s and 90s — ended his career playing ... Oct 22, 2020 ... A week later, his brother, fellow footballer John Fashanu, disowned Justin in the black newspaper, The Voice. “John Fashanu: My gay brother is ... Nov 18, 2017 ... A film about the tragic story of Hackney-born Justin Fashanu, the first openly gay British footballer has been taken up by streaming giant Netflix. A campaign to install a statue of Justin Fashanu at Carrow Road. The first pro footballer to come out as gay. Oct 5, 2017 ... Today, Fashanu is most often remembered as the first openly gay footballer. A new documentary, Forbidden Games: The Justin Fashanu Story, does ...