'Go gays!': Why USA's LGBTQ World Cup stars are more important than ever | USA women's football team | The Guardian

Contents:

• US MEN'S SOCCER TEAM CHANG LOGO TO PROMOTE GAY PRI AT WORLD CUP
• BREAKING: SOCCER IS GAY
• CHRISTIAN COLLEGE FIR GAY SOCCER COACH OVER SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS
• COLL MART IS U.S. SOCCER'S ONLY OPENLY GAY MALE PLAYER, AND HE'S WORKG TO MAKE THE GAME MORE CLIVE FOR FUTURE LGBTQ+ PLAYERS
• 'GO GAYS!': WHY USA'S LGBTQ WORLD CUP STARS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER

US MEN'S SOCCER TEAM CHANG LOGO TO PROMOTE GAY PRI AT WORLD CUP

"Cyd Zeigler, who scrib himself as a gay sports wrer, h out at the backlash, scribg as "crazy" that Amerins would turn their back on the team bee of this tweeted: "LOL the 'Amerins' who are now sudnly hopg the US los at the #WorldCup bee the team has some rabow flags around the facily Qatar. Image hatg your untry jt bee s soccer team might not hate gay people. The Uned Stat Men’s Natnal Team (USMNT) has resigned s World Cup team logo to add rabow LGBTQ lor strip rponse to host natn Qatar’s stance agast homosexualy.

BREAKING: SOCCER IS GAY

The issue of homosexualy has been a nstant ntroversy for this year’s World Cup gam. Ahead of the 2022 World Cup, Qatari officials nstantly reerated their stance agast homosexualy. Only days ago a Qatar World Cup ambassador told a German TV that homosexualy is “damage the md” and remas illegal Qatar, even for visg athlet.

And June, Qatar Football Associatn general secretary Mansoor Al Ansari warned fans not to show open support for gays while Qatar for the gam.

Qatar has outlawed homosexualy and impos a large fe or a prison sentence of up to seven years if nvicted of beg gay. So, they are virtue signalg LGBTQ a natn that kills homosexuals? In se you hadn’t heard, is illegal to be gay Qatar.

CHRISTIAN COLLEGE FIR GAY SOCCER COACH OVER SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS

While many pani and anizatns hold the rabow flag back their engagements the Middle East and wh other untri that prohib homosexualy, this is a big, bold statement. The team says ma this change prott of Qatar’s crimalizatn of homosexualy and that’s fe to take a stand, but to replace our lors wh LGBTQ paraphernalia is jt too much and a slap the face to the untry this team is SUPPOSED to reprent. I get wantg to send a msage of support to the gay muny and I get wantg to send that msage on the world stage, but did they have to ALL OUT exchange natnal pri for gay pri?

The lor of the Amerin flag is makg way for gay pri imagery on the logo of the Amerin natnal soccer team. The ntt is beg held Qatar, a Middle Eastern natn that crimaliz homosexualy.

It don’t appear as if the team will appear on the field wh the gay pri lors, acrdg to ESPN. Photos show the team’s facily cked out gay pri-centric logos, wh the lors of the transgenr movement featured one wall graphic. “It’s important to brg awarens to the issu, ” ach Gregg Berhalter said of Qatar’s polici toward homosexualy a Monday prs nference, acrdg to ESPN.

COLL MART IS U.S. SOCCER'S ONLY OPENLY GAY MALE PLAYER, AND HE'S WORKG TO MAKE THE GAME MORE CLIVE FOR FUTURE LGBTQ+ PLAYERS

The Amerins won the gural edn of the tournament Locher/Associated PrsHard Fouls and a Homophobic ChantThe game was ugly on the field — four red rds, shovg, a torn jersey, a bloody nose — and off .

The referee Iván Barton end the game the eighth mute of add time, rather than play the full 12 mut that had been announced, bee of a send stance of homophobic chantg om the ’s soccer feratn, s players and officials om Conf, the soccer nferatn for North and Central Ameri and the Caribbean, have ma many efforts over the years to enurage fans to stop shoutg the homophobic slur durg gam. Mexi has been fed more than a dozen tim a failed effort to stamp out homophobic abe, which remas a feature of gam Central and South Ameri.

'GO GAYS!': WHY USA'S LGBTQ WORLD CUP STARS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER

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