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
Homosexuality in Mexico that included homosexual sex, but for sodomy you would be condemned to death in a fiery furnace. Mayan society considered homosexuality preferable to premarital heterosexual sex, so the nobles got sexual slaves for their children. The Mexica or Aztecs were extremely intolerant of homosexuality, even though some of their public rituals had homoerotic overtones. Thus, for example, they worshipped the goddess Xochiquétzal, who reduced her masculine appearance, with the name of Xochipilli, and protected male prostitution and homosexuality. The mythical history of the Aztec people was divided into four "worlds", of which the previous had been "an easy, weak life,