David Beckham signs on to be the face of Qatar, where beg gay is punishable by ath - Queerty

Contents:

• DAVID BECKHAM’S ‘STAT AS A GAY IN WILL BE SHREDD’ IF HE NTU AS QATAR WORLD CUP AMBASSADOR SAYS BRISH EDIAN
• I HELPED DAVID BECKHAM BEE A GAY IN – NOW, HYPOCRISY IS EVERYWHERE
• IS DAVID BECKHAM GAY? HERE IS THE TTH
• IS DAVID BECKHAM GAY? WHAT IS THE QATAR CONTROVERSY?
• FOX NEWS ANCHOR IS TOTALLY GAY FOR DAVID BECKHAM
• DAVID BECKHAM’S ‘STAT AS A GAY IN WILL BE SHREDD’ IF HE NTU AS QATAR WORLD CUP AMBASSADOR SAYS BRISH EDIAN
• HEY, DAVID BECKHAM: YOU N’T BE A ‘GAY IN’ AND FACE OF QATAR
• ‘A GAY IN NO MORE’: WILL DAVID BECKHAM’S QATAR ROLE KILL HIS BRAND?
• DAVID BECKHAM SIGNS ON TO BE THE FACE OF QATAR, WHERE BEG GAY IS PUNISHABLE BY ATH
• DAVID BECKHAM ‘HYPOCRE’ OVER GAY FOOTBALLER JAKE DANIELS

DAVID BECKHAM’S ‘STAT AS A GAY IN WILL BE SHREDD’ IF HE NTU AS QATAR WORLD CUP AMBASSADOR SAYS BRISH EDIAN

David Beckham’s “stat as a gay in will be shredd” if the former England pta and Manchter Uned star ntu his role as a Qatar World Cup ambassador said Brish edian Joe Lycett on Sunday. In a vio posted on Twter, Lycett, a Brish edian who scrib himself as queer on his webse, said he would donate £10, 000 ($11, 000) to chari supportg “queer people football” or put the money through the shredr along wh “Beckham’s reputatn as a gay in” if the former footballer did not cut ti wh Qatar.

“Homosexualy is illegal, punishable by imprisonment and, if you’re Mlim, possibly even ath, ” said Lycett an Instagram post. World's only openly gay active pro footballer is ncerned for LGBTQ muny ahead of Qatar 2022.

I HELPED DAVID BECKHAM BEE A GAY IN – NOW, HYPOCRISY IS EVERYWHERE

“You’re the first Premiership footballer to do shoots wh gay magaz like Attu, to speak openly about your gay fans, ” Lycett said. Unr Qatari law, homosexualy is illegal and punishable by up to three years prison. Alai Uned player Josh Cavallo, who me out as gay last year, told CNN Sport he would like to see Beckham g his platform to support the LGBTQ muny stead of promotg the Qatari ernment.

David Beckham is the sarong-wearg, goln ball-swgg hband of a Spice Girl who basilly vented the word “metrosexual” yet, this hherto natnal treasure has started to dramatilly shed his glossy footballg superstar is the midst of a spectacular fall om grace thanks to his £10 ln role as ambassador for the imment World Cup Middle Eastern natn is wily nmned for s approach to human rights, namely s wispread e of morn slav and s crimalisatn of up for our ee Indy100 weekly newsletterAnd so the qutn on everyone’s lips is: how n a self-proclaimed gay ally jtify promotg a untry which systematilly locks up LGBTQ+ people?

IS DAVID BECKHAM GAY? HERE IS THE TTH

To illtrate the extent of Beckham’s hypocrisy (and up the prsure on him to end his multi-ln-pound al wh the Qataris), dy100 has piled a list of the moments over the years that cemented his now cmblg stat as a “gay in”. \u201cdavid beckham photographed by david lachapelle for gq, 2002\u201d — High End Homo (@High End Homo). 16667087452002 – Beg a gay ver starThat same year, when Beckham also happened to be the England team pta, he ma history by beg the first heterosexual footballer to appear on the ont ver of a gay publitn when his face was splashed across Attu a 2015 article markg s 21-year anniversary, wrer Malee Morley ced Becks’s as her favoure of all the magaze’s ver shoots.

“He is an in of morn masculy and so was a real moment, a signal to the untry that was OK to be OK wh gay people, ” she wrote at the time. 2002 – Sir Elton John be godfather to two of his kidsBeckham has repeatedly shared his love for close iend Sir Elton John, even namg him as godfather to not one but two of his sons: Brooklyn and, we n’t image all footballers would be so ready to profs their closens to an openly gay man, but that’s never been an issue for old Goln 2019, he posted a snap of himself wh his arm around his pal, ptned: “Geo day wh Elton John David Furnish. Beckham has been iends wh Sir Elton for nearly three sDavid Beckham/Facebook2007 – ‘I feel honoured to be a gay in’Beckham said he felt “honoured to have the tag of ‘gay in’” durg a 2002 terview wh the then-32-year-old suggted to the L of Enquiry rad programme that he’d possibly earned himself the acla bee: “I like to look after myself, I like to look smart and prentable most of the time.

”2009 – Officially hailed as a gay inIn 2009, a survey of 5, 000 gay men and lbians named s top 10 list of “male celebry gay ins” one of the ins wasn’t actually gay himself: you gused … David Beckham.

IS DAVID BECKHAM GAY? WHAT IS THE QATAR CONTROVERSY?

2014 – Celebratg Gay PriNot necsarily bt known for his way wh words, Becks shared a photo of a rabow flag to his Facebook page June 2014, along wh the ptn: “Great to see people celebratg Gay Pri around the world this weekend.

FOX NEWS ANCHOR IS TOTALLY GAY FOR DAVID BECKHAM

2018 – Named a top 10 ‘Celebry Ally’ at the Brish LGBT+ AwardsJt four years before he’d scribe an eveng Qatar as “perfectn for me”, Beckham was named a top ally at the Brish LGBT+ ’s what the ceremony’s anisers said of him at the time: “Faced wh tribal football fans, a vic sports prs and a bayg bevvy of showbiz journalists, David Beckham has never shied away om his stat as a gay in. ”June 2020 – Wearg a Pri t-shirtBack to the footballer’s wardrobe June 2020, Becks's popstar-turned-signer wife Victoria shared a snap of her hubby wearg a t-shirt of her own top bore the words "Listen Whout Prejudice" – the tle of Gee Michael's 1990 album – a rabow font, celebratn of Pri top was a tribute to both Gay Pri and the late Gee MichaelVictoria Beckham/InstagramMay 2022 – 'It shouldn't be strange for a footballer to e out'Beckham told theEveng Standararlier this year that he was glad football had improved sce his own playg days when to tacklg prejudice.

“I played for 22 years, I saw a lot of racism and homophobia and do thk has changed, " he said. ” The former Man Utd star said of Blackpool’s Jake Daniels, who me out as the first gay current player May: “It’s a shame that when someone do e out that ’s such a strange thg. He ntued: “At the end of the day there will be a huge amount of gay people sports and why should they be any different om anyone else?

DAVID BECKHAM’S ‘STAT AS A GAY IN WILL BE SHREDD’ IF HE NTU AS QATAR WORLD CUP AMBASSADOR SAYS BRISH EDIAN

Sign up for the View om Wtmster email for expert analysis straight to your boxGet our ee View om Wtmster emailTwenty years ago, the most popular man the untry at the time posed for the ver of the UK’s bt-sellg gay magaze. I saw the posive impact had jt as the untry was emergg om a perd of extreme tabloid homophobia – siar to the way trans people are monised 2002, for a straight man to be found attractive by a gay man was seen as a threat that warranted a hostile rponse.

Of urse, Beckham didn’t change this sgle-hand, and homophobia persists today – but for this handsome, fashn-nsc in of masculy to state that he weled and celebrated the gay gaze was a cultural game-changer. Hundreds of lns of people, maybe more, may die: men, women, children, gay, straight, bi, trans, Black, brown and whe people – and everyone else. In my view, the cricism of him is valid – Qatar’s stance on gay and human rights is appallg – but ’s easy to foc on such an apparent exprsn of hypocrisy whout lookg at the wir problems.

HEY, DAVID BECKHAM: YOU N’T BE A ‘GAY IN’ AND FACE OF QATAR

But we are now at a pot where we have to face the fact that the entire system is killg , be sports anisatns awardg major events to opprsive regim or all remag silent as the world slips to climate y, let’s make noise about Beckham and the homophobic regime Qatar, but let’s also take a long hard look the mirror and jo the mands for major systemic change – before time is lled on all of .

Tom Csie Beckham gay is though word for their relatnship, Victoria tri to put Beckham away om Cise?

Tom Cise David Beckham relatnship often lled as ‘ unsettlg’ but never gay and is claimed that Beckham’s wife Victoria has taken Katie Holm’ si as Cise and Holm went through divorce. But spe mors and speculatn about his sexual orientatn over the years, Beckham has remaed tight-lipped about whether he is or isn’t gay. Is David Beckham Gay?

‘A GAY IN NO MORE’: WILL DAVID BECKHAM’S QATAR ROLE KILL HIS BRAND?

At this time, there is no five answer as to whether David Beckham is gay or not.

As such, is impossible to fively answer the qutn of whether he is gay or not. Well, no, David Beckham has not ma any announcement about him beg gay, or he has e out of the closet. He has also worked wh gay magaz like Attu and often prefers givg terviews and dog photoshoots wh magaz and publitns that support the rabow muny.

DAVID BECKHAM SIGNS ON TO BE THE FACE OF QATAR, WHERE BEG GAY IS PUNISHABLE BY ATH

David has provid support to his gay fans and proudly flnts his tle of ‘gay in’ given to him by the homosexual muny. Even though Beckham extends such a genero amount of support to the LGBTQ muny, he is not gay himself.

DAVID BECKHAM ‘HYPOCRE’ OVER GAY FOOTBALLER JAKE DANIELS

However, there are some ser homophobic laws prevalent Qatar. Homosexualy is a punishable offense Qatar which often clus ath. So if you are gay Qatar, you will most likely die.

Acrdg to Human Rights Watch (HRW), a non-prof anizatn, the ndn of homosexuals Qatar is very bad. They report that homosexuals have to go through alleged s of beatgs and sexual harassment. Acrdg to him, by beg the ambassador for Qatar World Cup, David is also supportg the homophobic laws of Qatar.

Lycett went on to say that Beckham’s image as a gay in is also shredd due to his volvement wh Qatar.