A charitable foundation founded to fight racism and prejudice in professional sports & promote mental health nationwide.
Joined February 2020
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13 Feb 2022
"I set up the Justin Fashanu Foundation to provide a safe space for current and future players to know that support exists, in the hope that Justin’s experiences, which he described as inflicting “heavy damage’’ to his career, are never repeated." - @AmalFashanu for @IndyVoices
13 Feb 2022
My uncle’s experiences of being a gay footballer must never be repeated | @AmalFashanu bit.ly/34HOrZA
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25 Nov 2022
Official Statement on the Qatar World Cup from The Justin Fashanu Foundation #WorldCup2022 @Telegraph @thesun @gmb @bbcsport @SkySportsPL
@joelycett @amalfashanu
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The Justin Fashanu Foundation retweeted
7 Oct 2022
But Fashanu’s posthumous legacy has included his niece Amal Fashanu launching the @TJFFOUNDATION in his honour, which seeks to eliminate prejudice and tackle homophobia in sport and he was named 99th on a list of 500 LGBT heroes by the Pink Paper.
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The Justin Fashanu Foundation retweeted
9 Oct 2022
Shocking remarks from both players.
This year’s World Cup is hosted in a country where being #LGBTQ is illegal with horrendous punishments.
It’s no joke.
9 Oct 2022
@IkerCasillas and @Carles5puyol joking and making fun out of coming out in football is disappointing. It’s a difficult journey that any LGBTQ ppl have to go through. To see my role models and legends of the game make fun out of coming out and my community is beyond disrespectful
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The Justin Fashanu Foundation retweeted
9 Oct 2022
🗣 “You’re now bringing #LGBT fans to a bubble that is trained to gay-bash and has not seen LGBT visibility before and would perceive it as an attack” - @Dr_NassMohamed, #LoveIsNotACrime @AllOut 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
✍️ @PAJamieGardner, @pasport
#FIFAWorldCup #Qatar2022
independent.co.uk/sport/foot…
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10 Oct 2022
If your Twitter account did get hacked @IkerCasillas which could happen to any of us... please could you take a screen shot of the email you must of recieved confirming the notice of activity change of your twitter account. Perhaps you can share with us all? @SkySportsNews @rtve
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10 Oct 2022
We were initially elated to hear @IkerCasillas Twitter announcement yesterday but that quickly turned into confusion when it was declared to be a joke or his Twitter account was hacked. Either way the general responses have been incredibly disappointing....
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10 Oct 2022
Our Founder @AmalFashanu has just gone live @rtenews @rtve to discuss @IkerCasillas and his alleged Twitter account being hacked.....What do you guys think.....@JoshuaCavallo
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10 Oct 2022
It seems incredible that in 2022 we are still having these discussions. People are still not brave enough to live their lives in football authentically....and there goes @IkerCasillas @Carles5puyol making a Joke of it all?
@SkyNews @SkySports @rtenews @itvnews @BBCSport
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The Justin Fashanu Foundation retweeted
16 Aug 2022
More great work from our Women’s officer @jobaileymusic1 to organise a partnership with @HerGameToo for @PrideOfIrons after her work with the organisation and us earlier this year 🤩💙🛠
16 Aug 2022
Delighted to announce our Partnership with @HerGameToo
As Womens officer for @Prideinfootball our Co-Chair @jobaileymusic has already been working with them.
Pride Of Irons are looking forward to working together with #HerGameToo
#Together we are #stronger
#KickItOut #LGBTQ
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The Justin Fashanu Foundation retweeted
11 Aug 2022
Huge thank you to @ABCTV and @courtneyact for sharing my story to help the next generation to be as free as I am today! Love will always win ❤️🔥
The full interview is live at 9:30pm Thursday 11 August AEST on ABC TV 📺 or stream online anytime on iview
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The Justin Fashanu Foundation retweeted
The first time a current and former @premierleague player has marched at a pride event in the uk today at @LeedsPride @lufc 👏👏👏🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
7 Aug 2022
So this happening, and we are so proud to have @lukeayling_8 and @jermainebecks83 with us 💙🤍💛🏳️🌈
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The Justin Fashanu Foundation retweeted
1 Jul 2022
This week, the Culture Secretary urged sports NGBs to ban trans women from competition
We believe this:
- Goes against the principles of the new IOC Framework
- Is not based on scientific consensus
- Further marginalises trans people in sport & wider society
We say #NoTransBan
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The Justin Fashanu Foundation retweeted
25 Jun 2022
🏳️🌈 Our @WBAFoundation and Proud Baggies team at today’s inaugural @PrideHouseBham West Mids Pride Cup!
#PrideHouseBirmingham
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19 Jun 2022
Sending our love and best wishes to Dame Kelly Holmes #LGBTQIA #beyourself #Pride #PrideMonth2022 #EqualityforAll #equalityinsport
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The Justin Fashanu Foundation retweeted
❌ Once again we are questioning why this is still happening. You know the chant in question? It’s a hate crime. It is NOT just banter.
❌ Call it out, Retire the Chant.
2 Mar 2022
Come on @LutonTown that chant is now a Hate crime. Call it out. @CPSUK @ChelseaFC #RetireTheChant @kickitout @prideinfootball @FvHtweets @EmiratesFACup
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The Justin Fashanu Foundation retweeted
28 Feb 2022
TW/ Suicide
It's the last day of #LGBTHistoryMonth and we're asking 'Has there ever been out LGBTQ footballers in the UK? '
Swipe to learn about @TJFFOUNDATION
Want to learn more about LGBTQ history – book onto SAYiT’s talk TONIGHT - eventbrite.co.uk/e/lgbt-hist…
ALT Has there ever been out footballers in the UK? LGBTQ History month - SAYiT
ALT There are currently no 'out' footballers in the UK’s top tiers in the men’s game. Whilst it isn’t easy to be out in the women’s game, we do have examples of ‘out’ professional players as far back as Lily Parr who was a proud lesbian and played for Dick, Kerr Ladies from 1920.
ALT Justin Fashanu (19 February 1961 – 2 May 1998) was an English footballer. He was known by his early clubs to be gay, and came out publicly later in his career, becoming the first professional men’s footballer to be openly gay. Fashanu was also the first Black footballer to get a £1 million transfer fee, with his transfer from Norwich City to Nottingham Forest in 1981.
ALT Fashanu agreed to an exclusiveto come out as gay. They ran the headline as "£1m Football Star: I AM GAY". Fashanu later said that he wasn't fully prepared for the backlash that followed, and his career in football suffered "heavy damage". No club offered him a full-time contract after the story. Sadly, Justin Fashanu died in May 1998, he took his own life. The Justin Fashanu Foundation founded in his memory.
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The Justin Fashanu Foundation retweeted
13 Feb 2022
My uncle’s experiences of being a gay footballer must never be repeated | @AmalFashanu bit.ly/34HOrZA
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The Justin Fashanu Foundation retweeted
11 Feb 2022
“I feel that issues surrounding homophobia, racism and how prejudices can lead to mental health issues need more of a voice”
— Amal Fashanu (John Fashanu's daughter and founder of @TJFFOUNDATION ) #ThankYou #JustinFashanu #LGBTHM22
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