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Jon Holmes

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As seen in: Sports Journalists’ Association, Sports Media LGBT+, LinkedIn, Medium, MSN New Zealand, BBC, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Metro (UK), Goal, Stuff.co.nz, The Times and
Covers:  Sports, specialising in football, often with a focus on equality, diversity and inclusion, and within that, LGBTQ+ inclusion
Journalist, editor, consultant: @Outsports @SportsMediaLGBT @FvHtweets 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ | 📧 jon@sportsmedialgbt.com | @SportSJA @TheOfficialFWA (he/him)

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I'm an editor, journalist and media consultant with over 20 years' experience in writing, sub-editing and managing sports content. I'm currently an editor with Outsports.com. I'm passionate about inclusion and worked extensively on support for the Rainbow Laces campaign during my time at Sky Sports, where I still work part-time. In 2017, I founded Sports Media LGBT+, a network, advocacy and consultancy group for LGBT+ people and allies in sport. I sit on the committees of the Sports Journalists…

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Canada’s Drag Race queen was college diving champion, tells fans to ‘buckle up’

Canada’s Drag Race queen was college diving champion, tells fans to ‘buckle up’

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Pro darts is showing LGBTQ Pride support, even without Rainbow Laces

Pro darts is showing LGBTQ Pride support, even without Rainbow Laces

In a standout gesture, the Professional Darts Corporation is supporting its official LGBTQ group with rainbow…

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Team USA rower is world champion and gay role model back home in Texas

Team USA rower is world champion and gay role model back home in Texas

Teal Cohen talks to Outsports about her gold medal success at World Championships as an out gay rower, and LA…

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Olympic champion Matthew Mitcham overcame self-doubt to play villain in gay stage show

Olympic champion Matthew Mitcham overcame self-doubt to play villain in gay stage show

Diver-turned-actor Matthew Mitcham appears in ‘Jock Night’ in London. He talks about escapism, elite sports, …

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Out gay athletes are starring in a major men’s series, and it’s the perfect Pride Month kickoff

Out gay athletes are starring in a major men’s series, and it’s the perfect Pride Month kickoff

The men's netball boom is leading towards a World Cup that would feature plenty of out gay and bi players in …

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Discipline guided gay, Black gymnast at West Point toward leadership and legacy

Discipline guided gay, Black gymnast at West Point toward leadership and legacy

Brandon Rhode was a West Point cadet when he came out as gay. He says gymnastics was crucial, before and afte…

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Trans kids are being hit by waves of hostile policymaking - they need our help

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By Jon Holmes Verified
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💡 This article is from our (award-winning) free weekly newsletter that helps you understand the LGBTQIA+ news and support queer creatives to change the media. Join 10,000+ curious queer readers every Saturday morning. Wave after wave of hostile policymaking has hit trans children and young people in recent years. In the press and online, trans kids are a ‘controversial issue’. Across our movement, voices speaking up to defend trans children and young people have got quieter and quieter.
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Iran and Egypt wanted Pride erased. Seattle’s World Cup fans made it impossible to ignore.

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By Jon Holmes Verified, Brian Bell Verified, Jim Buzinski
| Outsports Verified
SEATTLE — The pulsing beats from the DJ and exuberant declarations of celebration from drag performers filled the air of the Ballard neighborhood in Seattle, filling the space cooled by the drafts flowing from Shilshole Bay with expressions of queer joy. A child wearing a lesbian Pride flag as a cape stood out from the gathered crowd.
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Mexico fans chant gay slur at World Cup game in front of FIFA President Gianni Infantino

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By Shane L. Windmeyer, Jon Holmes Verified, Karleigh Webb Verified, Jim Buzinski
| Outsports Verified
Mexico fans once again chanted a gay slur at the World Cup, in open defiance of FIFA rules and in front of FIFA President Gianni Infantino, during Tuesday’s round of 32 win against Ecuador in Mexico City. Fans chanted “puto,” a slur that means male prostitute in Spanish and is considered a gay slur, in the first five minutes of the game on a goal kick from Ecuador goalie Hernán Galíndez. The slur is always used when the opposing goalkeeper is taking a kick.
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Football journalist at TEAMtalk.com, based in Leeds, UK

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