A rerd number of out LGBTQ players make this year’s tournament a feast for gay fans.
Contents:
- A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
- US MEN'S SOCCER TEAM CHANG LOGO TO PROMOTE GAY PRI AT WORLD CUP
- BREAKING: SOCCER IS GAY
A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
The Amerin natnal soccer team has replaced the red of the Amerin Flag wh the lors of gay pri their trag facily. * us soccer team gay flag *
"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. A signifint event, jtified by the homophobic climate of the time, which shook and changed the entire natn.
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? In se you hadn’t heard, is illegal to be gay Qatar.
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US MEN'S SOCCER TEAM CHANG LOGO TO PROMOTE GAY PRI AT WORLD CUP
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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.
BREAKING: SOCCER IS GAY
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. The move by FIFA, the feratn behd the World Cup, to allow the tournament to take place Qatar has been wily cricized due to s recent history of human rights ab, cludg the crimalizatn of homosexualy.
It will be a glor month to be a gay fan. Last time at the 2019 Women’s World Cup, the Netherlands lay claim to the honor of beg the team wh the most out LGBTQ players, but this year Atralia boasts 10 out players and overtak them for the tle of Gayt Team 2k23. Ireland’s historic entry to the tournament marks another triumph for out midfielr Sead Farrelly, whose natnal team but and 2023 return to the NWSL e more than six years after retirg om soccer the wake of systemic homophobic and sexual abe wh the league, which the Athletic first reported on 2021.