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The Gay Football Supporters Network National League (often referred to as the GNL) is an amateur league competition for gay football clubs across the United Kingdom.^[1]

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Association football organizations
LGBT sports organisations in the United Kingdom

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.

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Belfast

Belfast (from Béal Feirste) is the capital city and principal port of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan and connected to the open sea through Belfast Lough and the North Channel.

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Five-a-side football is a version of minifootball, in which each team fields five players (four outfield players and a goalkeeper).

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Gay

Gay is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual.

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The Gay Football Supporters Network ("GFSN") is a U.K. non-profit organisation founded in early 1989 by a small group of gay football fans. GFSN National League and gay Football Supporters Network are association football organizations and LGBT sports organisations in the United Kingdom.

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Homosexuality in English football has been described as a taboo subject by both players and the media.

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The International Gay and Lesbian Football Association (IGLFA) is an international organization which was founded in 1992 with the intention of promoting association football (known as soccer in the United States and football in most of the rest of the world) in the LGBTQ+ community and to promote queer football to the world at large.

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LGBT

is an initialism that stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender".

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List of IGLFA member clubs

The following football clubs (soccer teams) cater to gay or lesbian members and have previously been, or are current member clubs of the IGLFA.

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List of LGBT sportspeople

This is a list of notable, openly lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, and transgender sportspeople as well as those who identify as belonging to the broader queer community.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 552,000 at the 2021 census.

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Middlesex

Middlesex (abbreviation: Middx) is a historic county in southeast England.

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Millwall

Millwall is a district on the western and southern side of the Isle of Dogs, in east London, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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National League System

The National League System comprises the six levels of the English football league system immediately below the level of the English Football League.

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Six Nations Championship

The Six Nations Championship (known as the Guinness Six Nations for sponsorship reasons) is an annual international men's rugby union competition between the teams of England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales.

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Stonewall F.C.

Stonewall F.C. is Britain's top-ranking LGBTQ+ orientated football team and the first of its kind to be FA Chartered Standard. GFSN National League and Stonewall F.C. are LGBT sports organisations in the United Kingdom.

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The Football Association or the FA is the governing body of association football in England and the Crown Dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFSN_National_League

Also known as Gfsn league, Yorkshire Terriers FC.