In 1990, Jt Fashanu beme the first football player to publicly e out as gay. Sce then, only seventeen players have done the same.
Contents:
- BREAKING: SOCCER IS GAY
- COLL MART IS U.S. SOCCER'S ONLY OPENLY GAY MALE PLAYER, AND HE'S WORKG TO MAKE THE GAME MORE CLIVE FOR FUTURE LGBTQ+ PLAYERS
- "I NO LONGER WANT TO HI:" CZECH FOOTBALLER JAKUB JANKTO ANNOUNC HE IS GAY
- CZECH SOCCER PLAYER JAKUB JANKTO ANNOUNC HE IS GAY: 'I NO LONGER WANT TO HI MYSELF'
- 8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY
- MY HIDN JOURNEY: A PROFSNAL SOCCER PLAYER REVEALS HE IS GAY
BREAKING: SOCCER IS GAY
As wh a uple of proment unmarried senators, Amerins have long spected that soccer might be gay. Now, ’s official * soccer is gay *
As wh a uple of proment unmarried senators, Amerins have long spected that soccer might be gay.
COLL MART IS U.S. SOCCER'S ONLY OPENLY GAY MALE PLAYER, AND HE'S WORKG TO MAKE THE GAME MORE CLIVE FOR FUTURE LGBTQ+ PLAYERS
He's the send current openly gay soccer player top-tier men's pro soccer * soccer is gay *
On Monday, the US men’s natnal team unveiled a resign to the team’s logo that replac red strip the crt wh the rabow lors of the gay pri flag.
Soccer’s cisn to e out of the closet ahead of the World Cup, and to live as s thentic self, was met wh shgs of “well, obvly” and “I always thought soccer might be gay sce that time I ught soccer tryg on my make-up and lipsyncg to Donna Summer.
"I NO LONGER WANT TO HI:" CZECH FOOTBALLER JAKUB JANKTO ANNOUNC HE IS GAY
* soccer is gay *
The empty, banal, gture-signalg allegiance to rporate neoliberale is tend to reassure a ty set of LGBT activists who qutn the league’s participatn the upg FIFA World Cup Qatar, a untry where homosexualy is illegal. The team, however, was quick to note the gay crt won’t be worn on the field but stead is displayed somewhere on their base Doha.
CZECH SOCCER PLAYER JAKUB JANKTO ANNOUNC HE IS GAY: 'I NO LONGER WANT TO HI MYSELF'
Wtern pk shirts prefer to not acknowledge areas of the world where actual, horrifyg, opprsn agast homosexuals occurs, namely the Middle East. Some lefti om an earlier era of activism attempted, to ltle fanfare, to draw attentn to the plight of gays Qatar. In October, Brish gay rights activist Peter Tatchell, a boomer, went to Qatar to ffle some feathers ahead of the World Cup.
Forty-ne mut seems que genero, nsirg what would have happened to him Iran or Afghanistan where, sce the Taliban was restated by Print Bin last year, gay people have been hunted and murred routely, after a twenty-year reprieve durg the Amerin occupatn.
8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY
Moments earlier, an opposg player targeted Mart, an openly gay man, wh a homophobic slur, and as they gathered unr a tent at halftime, they discsed how to team was agreement: Somethg need to be done.
"Flemmgs was later spend for six gam by the league, and he nied g an anti-gay slur toward Mart. "Beg able to have a posive msage e out of a really tough suatn was the silver lg, " he the only openly gay men's profsnal soccer player the Uned Stat -- and one of the few who have ever e out globally -- Mart has e to embrace the signifince of what he reprents, pecially for the LGBTQ+ muny.
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MY HIDN JOURNEY: A PROFSNAL SOCCER PLAYER REVEALS HE IS GAY
"Mart is not unique that he didn't have ach who were willg to step to put an end to homophobic language when was ed.
"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.
As the World Cup go on a untry where homosexualy is illegal, many global football fans are havg to reckon wh the sports' soccer remas one of the most popular sports around the world, very few players have been able to e out and enjoy a succsful reer afterwards.