Slurs in soccer chants

CHICAGO — A federal court in Illinois ruled that Chicago has not been shown to be liable for condoning homophobia at Soldier Field soccer games against the Mexico Men’s National Soccer Team, whose fans regularly chant a homophobic slur in Spanish at the U.S. team’s fans. A group of gay and straight men sued, but they offer only hypothetical arguments as to the security team’s supposedly stricter treatment of chants involving racial slurs, so they could not show they were treated less favorably than a similarly situated fan outside their protected class.