Hertha Berlin fan bar criticised for ‘anti-gay banner’

Hertha BSC fans have come in for critique for a ensign they hold during a home compare opposite perfume on Saturday during a Olympic Stadium in Berlin, a Berliner Morgenpost reports.

The banner, that was around 50 metres long, read: “WH96: Better one mom than dual fathers!” (“WH 96: Lieber eine Mutter als zwei Väter”).

Hertha BSC, a capital’s tip football team, won a compare 2-1. They are now third in a Bundesliga table.

The banner, that was destined during a perfume ultra-fan organisation Die Wilde Horde 1996, was met with clever defamation on amicable media.

“Leave out a stupidity! Hertha Berlin has always distanced itself from each form of discrimination,” a bar itself tweeted.

The German football repository “11 Freunde” also done their position on a pointer clear, tweeting: “A pity, Hertha, all thrown divided again.”

The ensign was partial of an ongoing adversary between a dual teams’ fan groups.

Last season, Hertha’s Harlekins Ultras announced on their website that some of their members had had children, observant they were “proud” that a ultra-group now had “11 happy fathers and one happy mother”.

The proclamation was mocked by a Wilde Horde, who denounced a ensign for a teams’ subsequent diversion implying that a one lady had been mom to eleven men’s children. 

The Harlekins Ultras’ try during punish was an apparent anxiety to a emanate of happy matrimony and adoption, derisive Cologne’s repute as a gay-friendly city.

Hertha BSC has formerly been seen to have some of a some-more on-going football fans, and was a initial bar to found a happy and lesbian fan bar – called a Hertha-Junxx – in 2001.

Hertha Harlekins posted a print on Monday on their website to uncover their defamation of a banner. The sketch depicts one of their banners from 2006, that review “Ja zur Homoehe!” (“Yes to happy marriage!”).

Article source: https://www.thelocal.de/20161024/hertha-berlin-fan-club-criticised-for-homophobic-banner