Queer football fan clubs

Queer Football Fanclubs ( QFF for short ) is an association of European gay and lesbian football fan organizations that was founded by the gay and lesbian fan clubs from Berlin , Stuttgart and Dortmund for the 2006 World Cup . The association works with the Alliance of Active Football Fans, FARE , the European Gay & Lesbian Sport Federation and the German Football Association and is a member of Football Supporters Europe (FSE).

structure

The QFF elect a speaker council for a period of two years in the general assembly . The spokesman's council takes on the external representation of the QFF for the term of office, maintains contact with associations and clubs and is the contact person for the member clubs.

Members

All official gay and lesbian football fan organizations that agree to support the goals are accepted as members. Accordingly, no individuals are members of the association, but the respective fan organizations.

The following fan organizations are or were members:

country	Surname	society	city	Foundation / dissolution or resignation
	The other way around on Schalke	FC Schalke 04	Gelsenkirchen	May 2010
	The other way around Rut-Wiess	1. FC Cologne	Cologne	Nov 2007
	Bayer 04-Junxx	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	Leverkusen	Jan. 2008
	Blue kid	Arminia Bielefeld	Bielefeld	Dec 2006 - Dec 2018
	Colorful foals	Borussia Monchengladbach	Mönchengladbach	July 2009 - Jan. 2012
	Colorful Legion 07	FC Augsburg	augsburg	July 2013
	Fan project FSV Frankfurt	FSV Frankfurt	Frankfurt (M)	November 2013
	Football fans against homophobia	Anti-Discrimination Organization	Berlin	July 2010
	Green hot spots	Werder Bremen	Bremen	Oct 2007
	Hertha Junxx	Hertha BSC	Berlin	Aug 2001
	Letzi Junxx	FC Zurich	Zurich	Feb. 2009
	Meenzel men	1. FSV Mainz 05	Mainz	March 2007
	MonacoQueers	FC Bayern Munich	Munich	Dec 2012
	Noris kid	1. FC Nuremberg	Nuremberg	Nov 2010
	Penya Blaugrana	FC Barcelona	Barcelona	Apr 2008
	Queer Devils	1. FC Kaiserslautern	. 2014	July 2007
	QueerFox	Sc freiburg	Freiburg	May 2013 - Jan. 2014
	Queer Guards Borussia	Borussia Monchengladbach	Mönchengladbach	July 2012 - Jan. 2014
	Queer pass Basel	FC Basel 1893	Basel	July 2007
	Queer Pass Bavaria	FC Bayern Munich	Munich	Nov 2006
	Queer Pass Bochum	VfL Bochum	Bochum	Dec. 2009 /  Sep. 2011
	Queer pass Sankt Pauli	FC St. Pauli	Hamburg	Nov 2001
	Rainbow Borussia	Borussia Dortmund	Dortmund	Feb. 2004
	Rainbow zebras	MSV Duisburg	Duisburg	March 2009
	Rainbow eagle	Eintracht Frankfurt	Frankfurt / Main	July 2013
	Roze Règâhs	ADO The Hague	The Hague	June 2013
	Ruhr zebras	MSV Duisburg	Duisburg	June 2013 - January 2019
	STUTTGARTER JUNXX	VfB Stuttgart	Stuttgart	Oct. 2004
	VolksparkJunxx	Hamburger SV	Hamburg	Apr. 2011
	Wankdorf Junxx	BSC Young Boys	Bern	Feb 2007
	Warm Up 95	Fortuna Dusseldorf	Dusseldorf	July 2010
	Wildlife ParkJunxx	Karlsruher SC	Karlsruhe	Jan. 2007
	RainbowBULLS	RB Leipzig	Leipzig	June 2017
	Rainbow scarves	FC Schalke 04	Gelsenkirchen	June 2017
	Riddlebucks	1. FC Cologne	Cologne	August 2017
	Bradford City LGBT	Bradford City FC	Bradford	June 2015

Public effect

The fan clubs caused a sensation in the media for the first time when they took part in the CSD 2008 parade in Cologne with a truck financed by the German Football Association . Until 2012 the queer football fan clubs took part in the parade in Cologne every year, since 2017 there has been a central CSD at changing locations, in which QFF participates as a foot group.

Together with the European Gay & Lesbian Sport Federation, the association plans and organizes regular action evenings against homophobia in professional football. At these events, associations are called upon to sign the “Leipzig Declaration”. On these action evenings, high football officials such as B. Erwin Staudt (President VfB Stuttgart ), Christian Müller (Managing Director German Football League ), ex-professional footballer Yves Eigenrauch and Dr. Theo Zwanziger (ex-President of the German Football Association ) took part.

In March 2011, the fan clubs appeared in public as part of the criticism from DFB team manager Oliver Bierhoff at an ARD crime scene on the subject of homophobia in football. The association had previously sent a resolution to FIFA in February 2011 and sharply criticized the award of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar - a country where homophobia is supported by the criminal code and homosexuality is punishable.

Since 2011, QFF has been sitting at the round table of the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency with other committed representatives and tries to coordinate actions against homophobia.

Since the fan clubs are not a one-sided fan organization, they of course also deal with football-related topics such as stadium bans, the legalization of pyrotechnics or ticket pricing. You are a member of Football Supporters Europe and FARE. Since 2012 QFF has had a permanent seat in the AG Fanbelange, in which fan organizations discuss fan-related topics with football associations at the DFB.

See also

• Football Supporters Europe

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Queer.de: DFB supports fan club cars at CSD Cologne
2. ↑ gay-web.de: Football must stand up against any kind of discrimination ( Memento from October 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ gay-web.de: DFB campaign against homophobia ( Memento from February 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
4. ^ Spiegel Online: ARD-Tatort: ​​Gay and lesbian fan clubs accuse Bierhoff of homophobia
5. ↑ WZ-Newsline: Interview: Football is everything - also gay