STUDENTS from Wilmslow and Knutsford have been supporting a national awareness campaign to help eradicate homophobia.
Players in the Manchester Grammar School’s under-15s football team sported rainbow laces on their boots for their ISFA Cup match against Moorland School on Wednesday, September 21.
The display supported the national Rainbow Laces campaign from Stonewall, a UK charity which aims to eradicate discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people.
The annual campaign aims to make football and sport more inclusive, and Michael Strother, director of admissions at MGS and under-15s football coach, believes it was important the school showed its support.
“We believe that it doesn’t matter who you are, everyone should be able to play sport, so signing up to the Rainbow Laces campaign was a natural step for us,” he said.
“It is a fun, easy and instant way to demonstrate that we are fully inclusive and that anyone in the MGS community, whether it is boys, staff, parents or anyone that comes to visit us, can be true to themselves when they are with us.”
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