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She gained mainstream recognition a year before her death, in 2005, when she was shown at the Tate Britain in their \u2018Outsider Art\u2019 exhibition. In 2019 she was the subject of a retrospective exhibition of her work at the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester.<\/span><\/p><h3><span style=\"display:block;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Justin_Fashanu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Justin Fashanu 1961 \u2013 1998<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h3><p><span style=\"display:block;\"><strong>Justinus Soni<\/strong>\u00a0\u201c<strong>Justin<\/strong>\u201d\u00a0<strong>Fashanu<\/strong>\u00a0was an English\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Association_football\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">footballer<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0who played for a variety of clubs between 1978 and 1997. He was known by his early clubs to be gay, and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coming_out\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">came out<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0publicly later in his career, becoming the first professional footballer to be openly gay.<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Justin_Fashanu#cite_note-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">[3]<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0He was also the first black footballer to command a \u00a31 million transfer fee, with his transfer from\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norwich_City_F.C.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Norwich City<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nottingham_Forest_F.C.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nottingham Forest<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in 1981, but had little success as a player afterwards, although he continued to play at senior level until 1994.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"display:block;\">After moving to the United States, in 1998 he was questioned by police when a seventeen-year-old boy accused him of\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sexual_assault\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sexual assault<\/a><\/strong>. He was charged,\u00a0and an arrest warrant for him was issued on 3 April 1998, but he had already left his flat.\u00a0According to his\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Suicide_note\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">suicide note<\/a><\/strong>, fearing he would not get a fair trial because of his homosexuality,\u00a0he fled to England, where he killed himself in London in May 1998. His suicide note stated that the sex was consensual.\u00a0In 2020, Fashanu was inducted into the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/English_Football_Hall_of_Fame\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Football Museum Hall of Fame.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>"},"template":{"id":27027030,"value":"feature"}}}],"properties":{"isStorePage":{"id":26681705,"value":"1"},"title":{"id":26681706,"value":"SHOP BLKOUTUK"},"description":{"id":26682515,"value":"Simply shop BLKOUT and help us mobilise Black queer men in the UK to . . .\n\nAddress shared challenges\n\n\nBuild networks to meet our aspirations\n\n\nCreate platforms for our voices"},"ogImage":{"id":26682516,"value":"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/valsacjcquitxxtft2tg3br05cvrbci622hqk0m1sxi4ipyq.png.png?w=1200&h=auto"}},"labels":[],"published":1,"sitemap":1,"divisionId":222586,"edited":true}