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
- WHY ’S IMPORTANT FOR GAY ATHLET TO TELL THEIR STORI
- PRO ATHLET WHO HAVE E OUT AS GAY: SPORTS STARS WHO INTIFY AS LGBTQ
- JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
- JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
* gay athletes 2023 *
Gay, lbian, bisexual, trans and queer soccer players who are publicly out — now at least 95 total — make up almost 13% of all the athlet petg the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup Atralia and New Zealand, Outsports has found.
WHY ’S IMPORTANT FOR GAY ATHLET TO TELL THEIR STORI
An enunter wh the boyiend of a gay athlete shows the power of LGBTQ people sports beg visible. * gay athletes 2023 *
Countri like Nigeria and Zambia imprison gay people. Still ’s hearteng to see some women om South Ai, where homosexualy has been legal for 25 years.
It will be a glor month to be a gay fan.
PRO ATHLET WHO HAVE E OUT AS GAY: SPORTS STARS WHO INTIFY AS LGBTQ
Riley Ga claimed gay athlet are ‘unlikely’ to have kids. Ummmmm... * gay athletes 2023 *
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.
JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
It was a random yet powerful enunter last week that showed me the power of gay athlet tellg their stori. Beg at Penn State, I thought about Carl Nassib, a fellow Ntany Ln who shook the sports world 2021 when he said he was gay a short but powerful Instagram vio. Nassib was no more gay the day he did the vio than he was the day before, but until he told his story, no one knew of a publicly out NFL player.
In the se of the Penn State athlete whose boyiend I met, was readg about other gay athlet sports that gave him the strength to realize he wasn’t screwed up; like all LGBTQ people, he was different om the majory of the populace, but beg different do not mean beg abnormal.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
"Navratilova, a trailblazer for gay rights, tweeted a one-word rponse: "Yik... Riley Ga, the former Universy of Kentucky swimmer who has advoted for a ban of trans women the female sports tegory, ma a pretty bold — and utterly false — claim this week about gay athlet. Breanna Stewart and Marta Xargay, basketball.
JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
The number doubl the 40 openly gay, lbian and bisexual women who peted of the women are om North and South Ameri, Europe, Atralia and New Zealand, Outsports reported. Meanwhile, the 2022 Men’s World Cup was set to be hosted Qatar, where homosexualy is illegal and punishable by up to three years prison.
The associatn’s cisn prompted some fans and athlet — cludg the first openly gay major league soccer player — to speak out. “If actns speak lour than words, then the msage FIFA sends to gay athlet is pafully clear. Not only don’t they have our backs, our liv don’t matter, ” Robbie Rogers, one of the first openly gay major league soccer players, said a 2015 opn article for USA Today after FIFA announced the untri that would host the upg tournaments.