{"id":23667,"date":"2018-11-29T10:22:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T10:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23667"},"modified":"2018-11-29T10:22:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T10:22:11","slug":"giroud-says-its-impossible-for-gay-players-to-come-out-stonewall-fc-aims-to-change-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23667","title":{"rendered":"Giroud says it&#8217;s &#8216;impossible&#8217; for gay players to come out. Stonewall FC aims to change that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Over the top challenges, elbows, spitting, constant name calling and homophobic songs sung in their faces.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Over the last three decades it&#8217;s been a tough and winding journey for Stonewall FC &#8212; Britain&#8217;s most successful gay football club &#8212; but on Friday as the players make their way up Wembley Way to play at English football&#8217;s spiritual home the team will take its next step in campaigning to tackle all forms of discrimination. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In a game against Wilberforce Wanderers AFC, England&#8217;s national stadium is hosting a special event to honor this pioneering LGBT club and to celebrate the Football Association&#8217;s landmark partnership with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stonewall.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stonewall charity<\/a>. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Over the top challenges, elbows, spitting, constant name calling and homophobic songs sung in their faces.Over the last three decades it&#8217;s been a tough and winding journey for Stonewall FC &#8212; Britain&#8217;s most successful gay football club &#8212; but on Friday as the players make their way up Wembley Way to play at English football&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}