Dilraj Sura:"I wear my rainbow laces with pride, and often get asked about them by my teammates."

On the 8th of December 2019, my best friend (who, like me, is LGBT+) and I went to see Brighton & Hove Albion versus Wolverhampton Wanderers, in Brighton. Not until arriving, we found out it was the weekend of the annual Rainbow Laces campaign, an annual campaign supported by many of the major sporting corporations to promote LGBT+ inclusion – players wearing rainbow laces on their boots, captains fashioning a rainbow armband, and the obligatory, predictable ruffling of an enormous rainbow flag, pre-game. It felt fitting, given that we were in Brighton.

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