This homophobic column came from The Voice Newspaper following Justin Fashanu coming out as gay, they also ran a homophobic cover story with John Fashanu renouncing his brother’s sexuality https://twitter.com/hackneyabbott/status/1284020026253746177
Thankfully there was significant backlash, mostly co-ordinated by Ted Brown of the Gay Liberation Front, and a year later Justin was allowed to tell his own story. But there is much to be said about how Black British media was central to degrading Black British queer people
Funny enough I’ve actually been trying to hunt down Tony Sewell’s column + The Voice Newspaper’s coverage of Black homosexuals esp Justin Fashanu for a project so I’d be very interested to know if anyone knows where these would be archived either physically or digitally
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