Both Helen and Zoe were impressed with our pitch and were interested in the story. This was the main thing we wanted because we may have had to change the idea completely if they didn't like it. They pointed out a couple of things such as:
- We should look into the Brighton football team as Brighton is home to a lot of things for LGBT people to do (gay bars, drag shows etc) so they must have some sort of LGBT support for their football team
- Russell Tovey has recently done a gay football TV drama called 'The Pass'
- The Welsh rugby player who came out - Gareth Thomas
- Justin Fashanu - case study
- Find global statistics of who in the world is gay and then who of these are professional footballers
- Find maybe another gay teenager, just in case, who is definitely interested in playing for the team, so we don't have to pretend they are interested
- One specifically with a bit of homophobia abuse
- Homophobic abuse in sport
- Contact FA about gay campaign and receive a good story, maybe they'll give us someone to interview
Since hearing this we have split these up and were each going to look into a part. I have chosen to look more into Justin Fashanu and his brother John as he may be a part of the unity football league because of Justin's traumatic experience before he killed himself. I have already researched into Justin in my blog post 'Documentary: Final Group Idea & Research'. I will also look into the London Unity League to see what they're about and see if I can get hold of anyone through there to interview.
Jack will be trying to contact the Brighton football team and the FA to get a representative for us to interview and Callum will be trying to recruit our gay teenager who wants to get back into football. They will also look into homophobic abuse and Russell Tovey.
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