page_title: Glenn Hysén
section_title: Incident at Frankfurt Airport
hierarchical_section_title: Glenn Hysén / Personal life / Incident at Frankfurt Airport
caption_attribution_description: Swedish footballer Glenn Hysén opens Stockholm Pride 2007
context_page_description: Glenn Ingvar Hysén is a football manager and former player who played for leading Dutch, Italian and English clubs and earned 68 caps for Sweden. He is also a reality television star, coach, and football commentator.
  Hysén is the father of Tobias Hysén of IFK Göteborg, Alexander Hysén formerly of Östersunds FK and Anton Hysén of Torslanda IK.
context_section_description: At Frankfurt Airport in 2001, Hysén attacked a man who had groped him while in the public restroom. In 2007, Hysén spoke at Stockholm Pride, the largest gay pride festival in the Nordic region. Many people from the gay community were surprised due to the earlier incident. At the Stockholm Pride, he delivered a speech denouncing sports homophobia and laid to rest his 2001 airport incident.
  He stated  that, "I know that many LGBT people have been the victims of assaults and hate crimes. I can therefore understand if some people have been upset by the airport incident, so I want to be clear: I think that it is completely unacceptable that anybody should be subjected to assaults, insults or hate crimes due to their sexual orientation or gender identity,...The incident had been blown out of proportion in the media...In order to finally flush the Frankfurt Airport punch down the toilet: it is not the case that I beat up a gay person. I categorically deny that,...I'm not proud that I took a swing at him, but I am proud that I have integrity and that I reacted."
  In the same speech he asked "How easy would it be for a sixteen-year-old boy who plays football to come out as gay to his team mates?" In March 2011 his youngest son, Anton, a professional footballer himself, came out of the closet to the media.<ref name="Rhyner">Rhyner, Sascha (9 March 2011). "Schwedischer Fussballprofi: "Ich bin schwul"" [Swedish professional footballer: "I'm gay"]. Basler Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 9 March 2011.</ref
caption: Glenn Hysén giving a speech at Stockholm Pride 2007.
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