{"id":146020,"date":"2018-06-25T06:47:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T06:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/ex-rugby-star-bid-to-outlaw-homophobic-chants\/"},"modified":"2018-06-25T06:47:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T06:47:59","slug":"ex-rugby-star-bid-to-outlaw-homophobic-chants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/ex-rugby-star-bid-to-outlaw-homophobic-chants\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-rugby star bid to outlaw homophobic chants"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p059rdyt.jpg\"\/>Media playback is unsupported on your device<figcaption>Media captionGareth Thomas tackled homophobia in football in a 2017 documentary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">Ex-Wales rugby captain Gareth Thomas will bid for indecent and homophobic chanting at football to be illegal.<\/p>\n<p>He will launch a draft bill with MP Damian Collins, chairman of the Commons culture and sport committee, to amend the 1991 Football Offences Act. <\/p>\n<p>The amendment would make chanting or gesturing of an indecent nature which refers to sexual orientation or gender identity against the law.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas made 100 appearances for Wales and came out as gay in December 2009.<\/p>\n<p>He scored 41 tries and made three Test appearances for the British and Irish Lions, before moving to rugby league in 2010 - where he represented Wales four times - and retiring from rugby in late 2011. <\/p>\n<p>Monday&#039;s launch event will take place at the Houses of Parliament before the Conservative Folkestone and Hythe MP tables the bill.<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  Getty Images<figcaption>Image caption                                      Gareth Thomas announced he was gay in 2009                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Section three of the existing act states that &quot;it is an offence to engage or take part in chanting of an indecent or racialist nature at a designated football match&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>There is a definition of &quot;racialist&quot; - described as &quot;threatening, abusive or insulting to a person by reason of his colour, race, nationality (including citizenship) or ethnic or national origins&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>But there is no definition of what is &quot;indecent&quot;, so determining whether something is indecent is considered on a case-by-case basis.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017 Thomas presented a BBC documentary titled &quot;Gareth Thomas v Homophobia, Hate in the Beautiful Game&quot;, focusing on institutionalised homophobia in football.<\/p>\n<p>The culture and sport committee in the same year published its report into tackling homophobia in sport. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media playback is unsupported on your deviceMedia captionGareth Thomas tackled homophobia in football in a 2017 documentary Ex-Wales rugby captain Gareth Thomas will bid for indecent and homophobic chanting at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}