Homosexuality in English football Homosexuality in English football Homosexuality in English football is sometimes said to be a taboo subject by both players and the media. As of 2012, there are no openly gay footballers in England's top four divisions. Some, such as Peter Clayton, who chairs the FA's "Homophobia in Football" working group have argued that clubs prevent players from "coming out" as footballers have an increasing commercial market value which may be damaged. Homosexuality in England and Wales (but not Scotland or Northern Ireland) was decriminalised in 1967, leading to a more liberal public attitude. There are many openly gay politicians and
The "Sissy Boy Syndrome" and the Development of Homosexuality The "Sissy Boy Syndrome" and the Development of Homosexuality The "Sissy Boy Syndrome" and the Development of Homosexuality is a 1987 book about homosexuality by the sexologist and psychiatrist Richard Green. The book received both positive and mixed reviews. Green described the book as a report on a fifteen-year study of two behaviorally different groups of young boys, one feminine or "sissy" and the other conventionally masculine, and how they grew up to be "two behaviorally different groups of young men." "The "Sissy Boy Syndrome" and the Development of Homosexuality" was first published in 1987 by Yale University Press. "The