{"id":459787,"date":"2026-02-05T09:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T09:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/459787\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T09:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T09:33:10","slug":"premier-league-launches-new-lgbtq-campaign-after-ending-stonewall-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/459787\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League launches new LGBTQ+ campaign after ending Stonewall partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last season Ipswich Town captain Sam Morsy did not wear the rainbow armband, while Crystal Palace<\/a> captain Marc Guehi wrote “I love Jesus” on his.<\/p>\n

Manchester United<\/a> abandoned plans to wear a jacket supporting the LGBTQ+ campaign because one player refused to wear it.<\/p>\n

“Premier League With Pride demonstrates our ongoing support for the LGBTQ+ community, and our commitment to ensuring that football is for everyone and inclusivity is embedded across all areas of the game,” said Premier League chief executive Richard Masters.<\/p>\n

“We want everyone involved in football to feel welcome, supported and comfortable being themselves.”<\/p>\n

Stonewall says it remains committed to continuing to work with Premier League clubs.<\/p>\n

The league’s new campaign is being launched in partnership with national LGBTQ+ support line Switchboard.<\/p>\n

“There’s optimism going into this week of matches and the Premier League is celebrating and talking about education as part of this activation,” said Jon Holmes from Football v Homophobia.<\/p>\n

“There’s a really deep element to this and I think that’s hopefully how this new initiative will evolve out of Rainbow Laces as well.”<\/p>\n

In 2021 the BBC opted to withdraw from a workplace equality scheme run by Stonewall after questions were raised over how the broadcaster could remain impartial over issues the charity was campaigning about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last season Ipswich Town captain Sam Morsy did not wear the rainbow armband, while Crystal Palace captain Marc…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-459787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}