Justin Fashanu homophobia in football and promotes the inclusion of openly gay players in football. In July 2013, the French film composer Jann Halexander composed a short requiem in his memory. In July 2014 London band Elephants and Castles released their first single, "Fashanu", as a tribute. In 2017, Netflix released the film, "Forbidden Games: The Justin Fashanu Story". Justin Fashanu Justinus Soni "Justin" Fashanu (; 19 February 1961 – 2 May 1998) was an English footballer who played for a variety of clubs between 1978 and 1997. He was known by his early clubs to be gay, and came out to
Justin Fashanu time, and the youth stated the act was not consensual but being performed as he awoke. The assault was alleged to have taken place in Fashanu's apartment in Ellicott City, Maryland, United States. Fashanu was questioned about this by the police on 3 April, but he was not held in custody. The police later arrived at his flat with a warrant to arrest him on charges of second-degree sexual assault, first-degree assault, and second-degree assault, but Fashanu had already fled to England. On the morning of 3 May, he was found hanged in a deserted lock-up garage he had broken