Progress Made Since His Time

Sep 23, 2024 ... Listen to this episode from Great Lives on Spotify. In 1981 Brian Clough paid £1 million pounds to bring Justin Fashanu to Nottingham Forest ... The rampant fantasist who claimed affairs with sexually experimental Tory MPs and Bet Lynch. The scorer of one of the most famous goals in English football. The ... Feb 19, 2020 ... ... Soccer Star: I Am Gay”. The sub-header 'Justin Fashanu confesses' – with its implication that by being gay, the footballer was doing ... May 13, 2023 ... How the first openly gay professional men's footballer – one of England's most headline-grabbing stars of the 80s and 90s – finished his ... Dec 2, 2022 ... Life of Britain's first out gay footballer Justin Fashanu who killed himself at 37 and his brother John is being turned into ITV drama · In 1990 ... 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 ... Feb 19, 2023 ... Justin Fashanu was an English footballer who became the first professional footballer to be openly gay. He was also the first Black player to command a £1 ... Sep 20, 2013 ... The last time he'd seen Patrick Fashanu was almost twenty years earlier when the footballer had been a toddler. It was 1963 and Patrick left ... Jun 28, 2020 ... Justin Fashanu was the first black footballer to be transferred for £1 million and was the first high-level footballer to “come out” as a gay man. Jun 4, 2021 ... This extract from Isabel Waidner's novel Sterling Karat Gold takes the form of a letter to footballer Justin Fashanu.