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The fact that folk are having a go at Partick over a bit of multicolored piping on an away strip speaks volumes. I don't remember Hearts getting this level of stick for their Save the Children logos. Whenever Rangers have made a nod to similar issues (rainbow laces) the seethe on their Twitter feed has been unbelievable. That tells you all you need to know about taking that "no need" side of the argument.

The best way to hound out the knuckle dragging nonsense amplified by the old firm is for the smaller clubs to keep plugging away at a more inclusive approach (although, Partick maybe aren't the best example to use here given their record with sectarian issues).

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Don't get me wrong, I'm not against it one wee bit. In fact, I'm all for it. I find it amusing though. :)

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Morton would kill for the publicity Partick have been able to generate for themselves the past few years.

 

Yeah not wrong but it justifies cynicism IMO. The below is a more extreme but ultimately correct assessment. Minus the overt homophobia. 

 

If there was one club that you would expect to do this kind of publicity-seeking stunt in Scotland, it was bound to be Partick Thistle. Let's face it, they are the club that due to their location in Glasgow's supposedly 'Trendy' West End and their Media-Luvvies/Students/Cosmopolitan status, have always had that stigma about them of being a club for gay males. They won't be ever considered a proper club like the Lanarkshire/Renfrewshire/Fife/Ayrshire clubs or, dare I say it, even the Old Firm, and it's down to the type of people they seem to attract as supporters.

They attract all the wierdo's under the sun, whether it's oddball schoolteachers, young guys who are more camp than Simon from Eastenders, Pot noodle munching studenty types with the physical attributes of Junkies and the manky T shirts to match, wankers with Kelvinside accents, or all of the above.

 

 

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Yeah not wrong but it justifies cynicism IMO. The below is a more extreme but ultimately correct assessment. Minus the overt homophobia.

 

They have always had a 'stigma' about them being a 'gay' club though.

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The fact that folk are having a go at Partick over a bit of multicolored piping on an away strip speaks volumes. I don't remember Hearts getting this level of stick for their Save the Children logos. Whenever Rangers have made a nod to similar issues (rainbow laces) the seethe on their Twitter feed has been unbelievable. That tells you all you need to know about taking that "no need" side of the argument.

 

The best way to hound out the knuckle dragging nonsense amplified by the old firm is for the smaller clubs to keep plugging away at a more inclusive approach (although, Partick maybe aren't the best example to use here given their record with sectarian issues).

 

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Save the Children is a registered charity so there's no way Hearts could have used their logo without having to make some contribution.  What monetary contribution are Partick making to the LGBT community for using their (i'm guessing unregistered) logo?  I'm going to put my neck out and hazard a guess at F all! 

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If you are gay, are you now expected to wear a rainbow strip/t-shirt/ badge or whatever?  I understand why the pride thing has risen to prominence, but this strip looks like a cynical bandwagon-jumping exercise by Thistle.  None of the gay people I know are Thistle supporters AFAIK but if they were, I don't think they'd touch this strip with a bargepole.  Comes across as a bit patronising - like those M&S LGBT sandwiches containing Lettuce, Guacamole, Bacon and Tomato - cringeworthy marketing at its worst - lucky they thought of guacamole or it would probably have had some guava shoehorned in there.

 

I thought we had reached the stage where gay people were just people, but clearly not - they are now people who can be targeted by cynical marketing campaigns to they to sell them stuff they didn't actually know they wanted.

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It's about raising awareness and trying to help normalise and support gay culture in a prodominantly unforgiving environment of football, not about trying to get floods of gay people to suddenly start attending games at firhill every second Saturday with their new Partick Thistle strip.

 

Of course they've probably done this with the main idea being they will receive free press in the mainstream media, but they're hardly trying to exploit gay people out of their hard earned cash.

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If you are gay, are you now expected to wear a rainbow strip/t-shirt/ badge or whatever?  I understand why the pride thing has risen to prominence, but this strip looks like a cynical bandwagon-jumping exercise by Thistle.  None of the gay people I know are Thistle supporters AFAIK but if they were, I don't think they'd touch this strip with a bargepole.  Comes across as a bit patronising - like those M&S LGBT sandwiches containing Lettuce, Guacamole, Bacon and Tomato - cringeworthy marketing at its worst - lucky they thought of guacamole or it would probably have had some guava shoehorned in there.

 

I thought we had reached the stage where gay people were just people, but clearly not - they are now people who can be targeted by cynical marketing campaigns to they to sell them stuff they didn't actually know they wanted.

 

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It's about raising awareness and trying to help normalise and support gay culture in a prodominantly unforgiving environment of football, not about trying to get floods of gay people to suddenly start attending games at firhill every second Saturday with their new Partick Thistle strip.

 

Of course they've probably done this with the main idea being they will receive free press in the mainstream media, but they're hardly trying to exploit gay people out of their hard earned cash.

 

I agree with you that raising awareness is absolutely needed but many of you are missing the point. 

 

Thistle could easily have done this in other ways eg by flying an LGBT flag above the stadium, or by freeing up some advertising boards around the ground and donating them to LGBT charities.

Sticking the rainbow on a strip that they expect people to shell out £40-£50 a pop at is shameless profiteering of an important cause.

 

If Thistle came out with a statement to the effect that a % of shirt sales will be donated to LGBT charities then fair play I'd commend them for that, but they haven't

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If you are gay, are you now expected to wear a rainbow strip/t-shirt/ badge or whatever? I understand why the pride thing has risen to prominence, but this strip looks like a cynical bandwagon-jumping exercise by Thistle. None of the gay people I know are Thistle supporters AFAIK but if they were, I don't think they'd touch this strip with a bargepole. Comes across as a bit patronising - like those M&S LGBT sandwiches containing Lettuce, Guacamole, Bacon and Tomato - cringeworthy marketing at its worst - lucky they thought of guacamole or it would probably have had some guava shoehorned in there.

 

I thought we had reached the stage where gay people were just people, but clearly not - they are now people who can be targeted by cynical marketing campaigns to they to sell them stuff they didn't actually know they wanted.

We've definitely not reached that stage. The lack of openly gay footballers and the reaction to this proves that.

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It's a bit opportunistic, but so what? It still makes a point, the only way anything bad can really come of it is if the neanderthals of the country come crawling out from their caves to cause a scene about it.

It’s because their support is riddled with prejudice regarding faith yet they’ve continued to ignore it (publicly at least) and are now jumping onto a hot topic in order to make themselves look progressive, forward thinking and open to all, when in actual fact that couldn’t be further from the truth.

 

Absolutely rotten to the core.

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