A rerd number of out LGBTQ players make this year’s tournament a feast for gay fans.
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A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
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.
Rob Kearney is a self-proclaimed “not-so-athletic kid” who is also now known as the “World’s Strongt Gay. “Once I realized for myself and I uld nfintly look the mirror and say ‘I’m a gay man’ and be proud of that … I realized if people didn’t like about me, I didn’t need them to accept , ” he said.
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