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Homophobic language use common in rugby union, says research
backed by Harlequins.
DIR By: Adrian
Date: February 14, 2020, 2:11 am
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HTML https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/51497733
More than two-thirds of male rugby union players have heard
team-mates use homophobic slurs in the past two weeks, says
research backed by Harlequins.
The Premiership club and Australia's Monash University also
found that 42% of male players surveyed have used such slurs
themselves in the past fortnight.
Quins host London Irish on Saturday in an LGBTQ+ Pride-themed
fixture.
"Harlequins is a club for all and we believe sport should be
too," said Quins chief executive Laurie Dalrymple.
"The club is proud to lead efforts to make sport inclusive and
develop evidence based programs to ensure every young person can
play and enjoy sport."
While 69% of the male players surveyed had heard homophobic
language from team-mates in the past fortnight, 67% said they
had 'close' gay friends.
"Most rugby players say they use the homophobic language to get
a laugh out of others, or fit in on their team, and it seems
they don't realise how harmful this language is to gay people,
or to the team culture generally," Erik Denison, one of the
researchers at Monash University leading international studies
on this issue, said.
"It was very interesting to see most want the language to stop
being used, but don't realise everyone else on their team feels
the same way."
Harlequins said the study analysed data collected from 275 male
and female rugby players - aged between 16 and 42 - from eight
randomly selected rugby clubs in the south of England in January
and February this year.
The findings from the research will be used to help develop
programmes to stop the use of homophobic language in all sports.
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Re: Homophobic language use common in rugby union, says research
backed by Harlequins.
DIR By: Adrian
Date: February 14, 2020, 5:01 am
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See also
HTML https://www.quins.co.uk/news/new-research-reveals-use-of-homophobic-language-ever-present-within-sport/
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Re: Homophobic language use common in rugby union, says research
backed by Harlequins.
DIR By: Admin
Date: February 14, 2020, 7:26 am
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As on another post can I remind you all
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Re: Homophobic language use common in rugby union, says research
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Date: February 14, 2020, 7:51 am
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Re: Homophobic language use common in rugby union, says research
backed by Harlequins.
DIR By: Fearless Fred
Date: February 14, 2020, 7:54 am
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Sorry, I nodded off. What were you saying?
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Re: Homophobic language use common in rugby union, says research
backed by Harlequins.
DIR By: HamptonCourtJester
Date: February 14, 2020, 8:21 am
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Fairly shocked by some of the posts today :(
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Re: Homophobic language use common in rugby union, says research
backed by Harlequins.
DIR By: GillQuin
Date: February 14, 2020, 10:03 am
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Can we all just talk about rugby, please.
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Re: Homophobic language use common in rugby union, says research
backed by Harlequins.
DIR By: Pat
Date: February 14, 2020, 4:18 pm
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No-one should abuse anyone...for any reason.
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Re: Homophobic language use common in rugby union, says research
backed by Harlequins.
DIR By: number_seven
Date: February 15, 2020, 6:37 am
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I think it's a great initiative by harlequins to shine a light
on this aspect of rugby culture. People often talk of rugby
values in a positive way, but I think many people would
acknowledge that homophobia has been present in (male) sporting
culture for some time.
I'm proud that they've taken a stand and chosen to celebrate
diversity. Hopefully this will help boost inclusion and bring
more people into the game from all walks of life.
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Re: Homophobic language use common in rugby union, says research
backed by Harlequins.
DIR By: Quinten Poulsen
Date: February 15, 2020, 7:58 pm
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It was a great day to remind ourselves that our players are not
a bunch of utter jessies.
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