Halting matches was just one of a series of measures aimed at tackling homophobia in French football, which LGBT+ rights campaigners say is a longstanding problem.
“This has been going on for years,” Bertrand Lambert, founder of the inclusive French football club PanamBoyz and Girlz United, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
“The difference is only now are people starting to wake up to the fact that homophobia exists in this sport. The fact that something is finally being done about it is the result of years of work from rights groups.”
