The police review identified institutional homophobia within the Metropolitan Police as a factor.

He would offer a rare combination of experience and skills, as well as a test of sports' institutional homophobia.

This phenomenon has been variously attributed to the influence of institutional and authoritarian homophobia in various environments, and the prevention of violent or criminal coercion on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity has become increasingly associated with general anti-bullying and anti-hate crime movements.

The group's Scottish wing recently hit the headlines during a clash with Transport giant Stagecoach, that accused QYN of a 'Slur' as it mounted a Boycott on its bus services following revelations of institutional homophobia.

A Scotland Yard review showed that Ireland's capture was hampered by institutional homophobia within the Metropolitan Police.

A review of this and similar cases in the area highlighted poor policing due to institutional homophobia within the police, particularly in not taking previous attacks in the area more seriously.

It is to the credit of "Any Mother's Son," a film about personal and institutional homophobia, that it does not try to be bigger than the incidents on which it is based.