On Saturday, August 4th, Paddy Power launched their float in the Brighton & Hove Pride Parade: the first official bus for gay professional footballers. Because a Premier League with gay players shouldn’t be a fantasy league. That means one of them is happy, self-confident and proud of their sexuality… and the other 49 are Premier League footballers.īecause isn’t it curious that, out of the hundreds of male footballers in the Premier League, not a single current player is openly gay? That’s why, as an official partner of the Brighton & Hove Pride Festival 2018, Paddy Power wants to show our support by encouraging our national heroes to come out and become role models, not only on the field, but off it as well. For the first time in history, there are over one million openly LGBTQ people in the UK alone.
