The FA and ECB defended their records on tackling homophobia in football and cricket respectively.
If all homophobia is unacceptable, then no one -- friend or foe -- gets a pass.
There have been ongoing complaints from Stonewall that faith schools in particular do nothing to deter homophobia.
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Pauli placed itself on the front line of football's battle with homophobia during a match with Paderborn.
The Yorkshire side will run out onto the Bramall Lane pitch with the slogan "Homophobia: Tackle It!"
Kenya is a country of faithful people and religion plays a defining role in homophobia in Kenya.
" Few wish to risk being seen as engaging in "discrimination, " let alone denounced for "homophobia.
Stevenson's long-running series featuring gay detective Donald Strachey confronts the mystery of homophobia in all its many guises.
Other Burmese cities also took part in the event, which marks the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia.
The New York-based league will partner with You Can Play to provide formal anti-homophobia training for all incoming players.
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Homophobia was at the root of the police raid at the Atlanta Eagle bar in September of 2009.
The first openly gay people are heading towards care homes, many of them worried about homophobia and HIV prejudice.
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The problem goes beyond Africa and is more than one of state-sponsored homophobia.
The roots of Russian homophobia is in the fact that homosexual act was a punishable by imprisonment crime until recently.
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While there has been huge progress since those dark days, the presence of homophobia in football has not been extinguished.
"Male professional sports do have an issue with homophobia, but so does society in general, " Chin, of Northeastern University, said.
Rice, the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, issued a statement on the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia.
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They stressed the importance of addressing homophobia, empowerment of women and girls, and HIV-related discrimination in the broader context of our everyday lives.
Responding, Education minister Lord Hill said the government took the issue of homophobia in schools "very seriously", but refused to ban the booklet.
Supporters of gay marriage took to the streets on Wednesday, waving placards reading "Homophobia kills" and "Our love is stronger than your hate".
The behavior, they say, is symptomatic of a deeper problem and should be used as an opportunity to tackle homophobia in professional sports.
As worrying to campaigners as the violence itself is a reluctance by the authorities to acknowledge that the attacks are motivated by homophobia.
Selekman went back into therapy, but the therapist did not help with the issue of gay identity, and later Selekman suspected homophobia was at play.
Earlier, Mr Black told the BBC news it was the first time they "had experienced homophobia at first hand, despite being aged 56 and 62".
It was the beginning of a consensus against discrimination, in favour of women's equality, and the end of any sense of respectability in racism or homophobia.
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Basketballer Jason Collins recently made history by becoming the first openly gay NBA player, while the NHL has drawn plaudits for its anti-homophobia work.
Mr David Charles, defending, said the assault was not motivated by homophobia and the taunts had been made by the two women and not by Pollard.
The partners were assigned to watch for potential problems at an anti-homophobia campaign in the African-American neighborhood of Leimert Park, at Crenshaw Boulevard and 46th Street.
"I suspect agents and clubs shied away from it, " Peter Clayton, chair of the FA's Homophobia in Football advisory group, told British newspaper the Daily Mail.
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