The Orlando Pri has apologized after a supporters’ group was told uld not display a banner that said “Gay” at a match this weekend.
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- US MEN'S SOCCER TEAM CHANG LOGO TO PROMOTE GAY PRI AT WORLD CUP
- ORLANDO PRI SOCCER TEAM APOLOGIZ FOR NOT ALLOWG 'GAY' BANNER AT MATCH
US MEN'S SOCCER TEAM CHANG LOGO TO PROMOTE GAY PRI AT WORLD CUP
"Cyd Zeigler, who scrib himself as a gay sports wrer, h out at the backlash, scribg as "crazy" that Amerins would turn their back on the team bee of this tweeted: "LOL the 'Amerins' who are now sudnly hopg the US los at the #WorldCup bee the team has some rabow flags around the facily Qatar. Image hatg your untry jt bee s soccer team might not hate gay people. 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? The year may be 2022, but beg an out gay male Qatar is illegal, wh a punishment of up to three years prison. There is also the possibily of the ath penalty for gay Mlims the natn.
Monday, the team revealed that had dropped the patrtic red, whe, and blue lor pattern favor of a rabow gay pri lor batn. The USMNT says s rabow crt protts Qatar’s crimalizatn of homosexualy.
ORLANDO PRI SOCCER TEAM APOLOGIZ FOR NOT ALLOWG 'GAY' BANNER AT MATCH
Earlier this month, a Qatar World Cup ambassador told a German TV broadster that homosexualy is “damage to the md” the Mlim-majory natn. “The tournament, which starts on Sunday and se the US play their opener agast Wal on Monday, has been hugely ntroversial s build-up, given Qatar’s human rights rerd and attu to homosexualy. The Orlando Pri has apologized after a supporters’ group was told uld not display a banner that said “Gay” at a match this Black Swans’ banner was reference to Florida’s recent legislatn dubbed by crics as the “Don’t Say Gay″ bill.
“The nversatns rulted one ultimate and important ncln: a mistake was ma when the club asked the Black Swans to remove the banner that said ‘GAY, ’” the team said Tuday a Pri’s statement said wrongly foced on polici and procr surroundg signs and banners, rather than the meang of the msage. But homosexual acts are punishable by imprisonment and ath Qatar, where Islam is the state relign. HRW said that om 2019 to 2022 six LGBTQ Qataris — cludg four transgenr women, one bisexual woman, and one gay man — were “taed an unrground prison; verbally harrassed; physilly abed; nied accs to legal unsel, fay, and medil re; and forced to give nfsn and pledg to ‘cease immoral activy.
” Neverthels, the untry’s ambassador to the Uned Natns reportedly lled on God to put a curse on gay people and claimed that “fendg human rights has nothg to do wh gay rights.