{"product_id":"11-justin-fashanu-fairchild-place-shoreditch","title":"11. Justin Fashanu, Fairchild Place, Shoreditch","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA groundbreaking footballer in many ways, Justin Fashanu was, at the height of his career, the country’s most expensive black footballer. Having already played for a number of clubs he sent shockwaves through the football world in 1990 after The Sun ran the headline - ‘£1m Football Star: I AM GAY’. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfter coming out Fashanu realised he was not fully prepared for the backlash that followed. He was the first, and up until this year (2022), the only professional footballer to be openly gay. Fashanu moved to the United States and in 1998 was accused of sexual assault - he was charged - a time when homosexual acts were illegal in the US State of Maryland and, fearing he would not get a fair trial he fled back to England where he hanged himself in a disused lock-up in Fairchild Place, Shoreditch. In his suicide note he stated that the sex was consensual and he feared he would not get a fair trial because of his homosexuality and that he didn’t want to bring further embarrassment to his friends and family.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePrint is 20 x 25cm, unframed, signed, numbered and comes with the above accompanying text.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store 2","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54616183144777,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1018\/7027\/2841\/files\/fas.png?v=1781638263","url":"https:\/\/6pmrda-uh.myshopify.com\/products\/11-justin-fashanu-fairchild-place-shoreditch","provider":"A Queer Pilgrimage","version":"1.0","type":"link"}