Bayer Leverkusen has to pay a fine because its fans wrote on a banner: “There are only two genders” Right-wing agitators are now fueling their culture war. The club accepted the fine from the DFB court without objection.

There have already been anti-queer attacks among football fans, even though the topic has not yet been discovered, says Ulf Poschardt, editor-in-chief of German newspaper "Welt" "The current debate is primarily about propaganda on the backs of minorities," he says.