The UK's LGBT+ community celebrates the 50th anniversary of the first Pride march to be held in the country this year, with June the traditional month for those protests and parades.
For more than 30 years, football's closest connection to the community at the elite level has been the Rainbow Laces campaigns of recent times. But all of that changed in May, when Jake Daniels became the first English professional footballer since Justin Fashanu to come out as gay.
It was a high point in what is a year of celebration, though there remains a long way to go in the search for equality for LGBT+ people across the world. That is something that is driven home by Leatherhead boss Luke Tuffs, who is English football's highest-placed openly gay manager.
