David Beckham, ¿el hombre que abó n el tabú gay en el fútbol? | CNN

Contents:

• BECKHAM: THE MAN WHO BROKE FOOTBALL’S GAY TABOO?
• DAVID BECKHAM’S ‘STAT AS A GAY IN WILL BE SHREDD’ IF HE NTU AS QATAR WORLD CUP AMBASSADOR SAYS BRISH EDIAN
• IS DAVID BECKHAM GAY? WHAT IS THE QATAR CONTROVERSY?
• IS DAVID BECKHAM GAY? HERE IS THE TTH
• ‘A GAY IN NO MORE’: WILL DAVID BECKHAM’S QATAR ROLE KILL HIS BRAND?
• HEY, DAVID BECKHAM: YOU N’T BE A ‘GAY IN’ AND FACE OF QATAR
• DAVID BECKHAM, ¿EL HOMBRE QUE ABó N EL TABú GAY EN EL FúTBOL?

BECKHAM: THE MAN WHO BROKE FOOTBALL’S GAY TABOO?

Beckham 'opened the door' for to be ol to be gay. David Beckham was always apt at curlg the ball around a wall – but when me to the barrier of homosexualy football, he broke straight through .

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

Former England pta Beckham, who announced his retirement om football Thursday, was the first superstar footballer to embrace his “gay in” stat, eely givg terviews to gay magaz and openly talkg about his gay fan base. “What David Beckham did was break the long silence about homosexualy football, ” Newkey-Burn told CNN.

“He openly urted his gay fan base, sayg he loved beg a gay in and was happy for his wife to broadst that around. “He was the first to give terviews to gay magaz – before that, no footballer would have done that. In an terview wh the BBC given 2007, Beckham spoke of his pri at beg tagged as a “gay in”.

IS DAVID BECKHAM GAY? WHAT IS THE QATAR CONTROVERSY?

Once Newkey-Burn spent five months tryg to anize an terview wh the midfielr, only for the player himself to sanctn the piece after readg one of the journalist’s articl on football and homosexualy Four Four Two magaze.

“David read the piece I did about how far football had e alg wh homophobia, ” Newkey-Burn relled. “Look, there are 92 league clubs England wh each squad havg around 20 players, so statistilly, there mt be some gay players, ” add the journalist. “Beckham said to the world: ‘I’m straight, I’m the England pta and I thk ’s ol people are gay.

IS DAVID BECKHAM GAY? HERE IS THE TTH

Dpe Beckham embracg his “gay in” stat, football ntu to stggle wh homophobia. Football star Robbie Rogers announced he was retirg om football after “g out” – leavg Swedish player Anton Hysen as the only openly gay player Europe. Read: In search of a gay soccer hero.

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

“Gay football fans don’t want 11 neatly iffured and manicured players to admire, ” said the journalist and celebry bgrapher who has wrten books about Ale, Brangela, Michael Jackson and Paris Hilton. “But Beckham was someone who was proud to be a gay in and ma ol too.

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

Read: The gay footballer who chose eedom. David Beckham is the sarong-wearg, goln ball-swgg hband of a Spice Girl who basilly vented the word “metrosexual”.And yet, this hherto natnal treasure has started to dramatilly shed his glossy sheen.The footballg superstar is the midst of a spectacular fall om grace thanks to his £10 ln role as ambassador for the imment World Cup Qatar.The Middle Eastern natn is wily nmned for s approach to human rights, namely s wispread e of morn slav and s crimalisatn of homosexualy.Sign 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?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”.1998 – That sarongFirst thgs first, we’re not suggtg that wearg a sarong, or ed any cloth, should be an ditn of someone’s sexualy.

DAVID BECKHAM, ¿EL HOMBRE QUE ABó N EL TABú GAY EN EL FúTBOL?

Breakg down such barriers would be at the heart of his transformatn to an LGBTQ+ idol.\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 Magaze.In 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 Romeo.Sadly, 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 Balls.In 2019, he posted a snap of himself wh his arm around his pal, ptned: “Geo day wh Elton John David Furnish.