FIFA Print Gianni Infanto raised eyebrows on Saturday when he attempted to show empathy wh margalised groups by tellg reporters Qatar 'I feel gay ... I feel like a migrant worker'.
Contents:
- FIFA HEAD REBUFFS CRICS, SAYS ‘I FEEL’ LIKE GAY PEOPLE OR MIGRANTS
- 'I FEEL GAY', FIFA CHIEF ATTEMPTS TO EMPATHISE WH MARGALISED
- FIFA PRINT GIANNI INFANTO AT WORLD CUP: ‘TODAY I FEEL GAY, I FEEL DISABLED, I FEEL A MIGRANT WORKER’
- FIFA MUNITNS DIRECTOR OUT AS GAY AMID QATAR NTROVERSY
FIFA HEAD REBUFFS CRICS, SAYS ‘I FEEL’ LIKE GAY PEOPLE OR MIGRANTS
The day before the World Cup begs, FIFA head Gianni Infanto addrsed human-rights ncerns by sayg: "Today I feel gay ... I feel disabled ... I feel a migrant worker.” * head of fifa gay *
Today I feel gay. The sheikhdom has a large number of migrant workers, crimaliz homosexualy and rtricts the rights of rights anizatns cludg Amnty Internatnal and Human Rights Watch have timated that the ath toll of migrant workers buildg World Cup facili is the thoands, a number Qatar has disputed.
”‘Very welg’Some fans have said they plan to boytt the gam, pecially those the LGBTQ muny, bee of Qatar’s laws on homosexualy.
'I FEEL GAY', FIFA CHIEF ATTEMPTS TO EMPATHISE WH MARGALISED
“Do you want to stay home and hammer and cricize and say how bad they are, the Arabs or the Mlims or whatever, bee ’s not allowed to be publicly gay? “You do not know what feels like to be gay, Infanto, you do not know what feels like to be Ain, and you nnot nflate beg discrimated agast bee of red hair and eckl to what any of the groups you’ve jt referenced have experienced, ” Sky Sports reporter Melissa Reddy said a broadst om Qatar posted to Twter.
AL RAYYAN, Qatar, Nov 19 (Rters) - FIFA Print Gianni Infanto raised eyebrows on Saturday when he attempted to show empathy wh margalised groups by tellg reporters Qatar 'I feel gay... "Of urse, I am not Qatari, I am not an Arab, I am not Ain, I am not gay, I am not disabled, " he later Football - FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 - FIFA Print Prs Conference - Ma Media Center, Doha, Qatar - November 19, 2022 FIFA print Gianni Infanto durg a prs nference REUTERS/Matthew Childs Acquire Licensg Rights"But I feel like , bee I know what means to be discrimated, to be bullied, as a foreigner a foreign untry. "Judgg by social media, your ments that you feel gay has ed some surprise to many the gay muny, " one journalist later noted before askg Infanto a qutn.
"Bee, they are sayg, that if you really were gay you would not be able to say that bee you would be admtg to effectively illegaly. "I'm stg here a privileged posn on a global stage as a gay man here Qatar. Jt bee Gianni Infanto is not gay, do not mean he do not re.
FIFA PRINT GIANNI INFANTO AT WORLD CUP: ‘TODAY I FEEL GAY, I FEEL DISABLED, I FEEL A MIGRANT WORKER’
Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Readg the Game newsletter sent straight to your box for eeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s ee weekly newsletter Fifa print Gianni Infanto claimed “today I feel gay” as he sld Wtern media for givg “moral lsons” about the ntroversial Qatar World a bizarre hour-long monologue, Infanto lashed out at the World Cup’s crics for hypocrisy, claimed “nobody r” about disabled people, and pared his own childhood experience of beg bullied to the sufferg of workers and others at the hands of the Qatari has been wily cricised for explog untold thoands of migrant workers, mostly lured om impoverished parts of south Asia, to build the stadiums and astcture to host the World Cup. In addn, Qatar’s suabily to host the tournament has been qutned bee the nservative Islamic natn outlaws homosexualy between men and LGBT+ fan groups have warned they would not feel safe the of the openg game of the tournament on Sunday, Infanto – who was re-elected this week as print of football’s erng body unopposed – ma an extraordary attack on those cricisms, doublg down on Fifa’s choice of Qatar as World Cup hosts. “Of urse I am not Qatari, I am not an Arab, I am not Ain, I am not gay, I am not disabled.
FIFA MUNITNS DIRECTOR OUT AS GAY AMID QATAR NTROVERSY
FIFA's Director of Media Relatns, Bryan Swanson revealed that he is gay right on stage at the prs nference of FIFA Print Gianni Infanto on the eve of the World Cup openg ceremony. Same-sex relatnships are crimalised the the small Middle-Eastern natn, and this has been a major topic of discsn leadg up to the fans, players and other members of the football muny have been raisg ncerns about the safety of those travellg to Qatar pecially if they are openly gay.
"I have spent some time at Gianni's si workg alongsi Infanto and I have always felt supported and helped, I am gay as are many other lleagu at FIFA and I have always felt supported, " he said while onstage at the prs nference which was held ahead of the World Cup openg ceremony. ? "I am stg here a privileged posn on a global stage as a gay man Qatar. Swanson went on to make clear that his tentn is to let the world know that ntrary to the cricism, Infanto is fact very supportive of gay lleagu.