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

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Julie Johnston met Zach Ertz at a baseball game at Stanford, where Zach was a junr tight end and Julie was a sophomore midfielr at Santa Clara Universy.

They were the first gay uple to be featured together on the ver of the ESPN Body Issue last summer. 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.

USWNT’S MEGAN RAPOE BE FIRST OPENLY GAY WOMAN TO POSE FOR SI SWIMSU ISSUE

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. “So for any gay soccer player who has hop of playg for the U.

Several players on this team are openly gay, as has been the se wh recent World Cup and Olympic teams.

"We have gay people.

NORTH AMERI’S FOUR BIGGT PRO SPORTS LEAGU HAVE BEEN AROUND A BED 398 YEARS. THEY’VE HAD TWO OPENLY GAY ACTIVE PLAYERS

“Go gays! “You n’t w a champnship whout gays on your team - ’s never been done before, ever. But for me, to be gay and fabulo, durg Pri month at the World Cup, is nice.

Teammat Tierna Davidson, Adrianna Franch, Ashlyn Harris, and Ali Krieger are all out as gay or bisexual, as are dozens of players on other teams. Durg the 2018 tournament, two fans were btally beaten an anti-gay attack and at least one gay rights activist was arrted for prottg outsi the Kreml.

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North Ameri's four biggt pro sports leagu have had only 2 openly gay active players | CNN .

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