As wh a uple of proment unmarried senators, Amerins have long spected that soccer might be gay. Now, ’s official
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US MEN'S SOCCER TEAM CHANG LOGO TO PROMOTE GAY PRI AT WORLD CUP
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? As wh a uple of proment unmarried senators, Amerins have long spected that soccer might be gay.
On Monday, the US men’s natnal team unveiled a resign to the team’s logo that replac red strip the crt wh the rabow lors of the gay pri flag. Soccer’s cisn to e out of the closet ahead of the World Cup, and to live as s thentic self, was met wh shgs of “well, obvly” and “I always thought soccer might be gay sce that time I ught soccer tryg on my make-up and lipsyncg to Donna Summer. The empty, banal, gture-signalg allegiance to rporate neoliberale is tend to reassure a ty set of LGBT activists who qutn the league’s participatn the upg FIFA World Cup Qatar, a untry where homosexualy is illegal.
BREAKING: SOCCER IS GAY
The team, however, was quick to note the gay crt won’t be worn on the field but stead is displayed somewhere on their base Doha. Wtern pk shirts prefer to not acknowledge areas of the world where actual, horrifyg, opprsn agast homosexuals occurs, namely the Middle East.
Some lefti om an earlier era of activism attempted, to ltle fanfare, to draw attentn to the plight of gays Qatar. In October, Brish gay rights activist Peter Tatchell, a boomer, went to Qatar to ffle some feathers ahead of the World Cup. Forty-ne mut seems que genero, nsirg what would have happened to him Iran or Afghanistan where, sce the Taliban was restated by Print Bin last year, gay people have been hunted and murred routely, after a twenty-year reprieve durg the Amerin occupatn.