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Contents:
- HOTON'S GAY SOCCER CLUB ENJOYS QATAR WORLD CUP ON S OWN TERMS
- PRI ON THE PCH: DO SOCCER HAVE A GAY PROBLEM?
- 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
HOTON'S GAY SOCCER CLUB ENJOYS QATAR WORLD CUP ON S OWN TERMS
The Internatnal Gay & Lbian Football Associatn (IGLFA) was found 1992 orr to help promote and foster the growth of LGTBQ football world wi. No one left their seats durg halftime of a World Cup watch party at Buddy's gay bar Friday as drag queen Jacklyn Dr raffled away sex toys, morated a game lled "Jgle Balls" and hosted soccer trivia -- all wh a 10-mute span. But toward the end of the show, Je Mola — print of Space Cy Pri FC, the LGBTQ+ soccer club hostg the event — took the mic to offer more sober wasn't an easy choice for the club, Mola explaed, to buy to a World Cup beg hosted by Qatar, a untry where homosexualy is punishable unr the law.
But they'd seen how others had ed the tournament as an opportuny to speak up about gay rights, and as lifelong soccer fans, they weren't gog to let someone else dictate their enjoyment of the world's most beloved sportg event. He also held a moment of silence for the victims of the Club Q shootg last weekend, when five people were killed and 18 more were jured after a man wh an AR-15-style rifle opened fire the gay bar Colorado Sprgs, Colo. Club Q shootg: At Hoton gay bars, news of Colorado shootg met wh strengthened rolve.
"It's fantastic to see straight, gay, lbian, women (and) men e out here and jt jo together to enjoy what we love, which is soccer, " Mola said.
PRI ON THE PCH: DO SOCCER HAVE A GAY PROBLEM?
For Zachary Stewart, one of Space Cy Pri FC's founrs, the ia that the ternatnal soccer muny would speak up support of gay rights on a world stage was unthkable when he was growg up ral Pennsylvania. And then I found gay soccer and found wasn't all jt the stereotyp. One man, who asked not to be named bee he has not publicly e out as gay, sipped a beer at Buddy's as he watched the send half of the U.
In 1980, an ad was placed the Village Voice lookg for gay men terted playg soccer an area of Central Park known as the Ramble. This was the birth of the New York Ramblers, the world’s first anized openly-gay soccer club. At Gay Basketball League.
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 At Gay Basketball League (AGBL) was found Febary 2010 and is At's first and only gay-affiliated basketball league; and at the time was the only gay-affiliated league the state of Texas. At Gay Flag Football League. The At Goldstars Soccer Club is a predomantly gay non-prof anizatn that provis people an opportuny to play and learn soccer a posive and iendly environment.
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