'Bend Like Beckham' Is the Gayt Love Story Never Told

Contents:

• DAVID BECKHAM’S ‘STAT AS A GAY IN WILL BE SHREDD’ IF HE NTU AS QATAR WORLD CUP AMBASSADOR SAYS BRISH EDIAN
• BECKHAM: THE MAN WHO BROKE FOOTBALL’S GAY TABOO?
• ‘A GAY IN NO MORE’: WILL DAVID BECKHAM’S QATAR ROLE KILL HIS BRAND?
• ‘A GAY IN NO MORE’: WILL DAVID BECKHAM’S QATAR ROLE KILL HIS BRAND?
• ‘A GAY IN NO MORE’: WILL DAVID BECKHAM’S QATAR ROLE KILL HIS BRAND?
• ‘A GAY IN NO MORE’: WILL DAVID BECKHAM’S QATAR ROLE KILL HIS BRAND?
• 'BEND LIKE BECKHAM' IS THE GAYT LOVE STORY NEVER TOLD
• IS DAVID BECKHAM GAY? HERE IS THE TTH
• DAVID BECKHAM, ¿EL HOMBRE QUE ABó N EL TABú GAY EN EL FúTBOL?
• OLL BECKHAM JR. RPONDS TO GAY RUMORS
• HEY, DAVID BECKHAM: YOU N’T BE A ‘GAY IN’ AND FACE OF QATAR

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.

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

“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.

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

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. 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 . 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.

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

“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”.

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

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.

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

“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.

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.

'BEND LIKE BECKHAM' IS THE GAYT LOVE STORY NEVER TOLD

Read: In search of a gay soccer hero. “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.

IS DAVID BECKHAM GAY? HERE IS THE TTH

Read: The gay footballer who chose eedom. Wherever Fahad, a gay man his 40s, walks his home cy of Doha, om the Qatari pal’s astal promena, known as the Corniche, to the gleamg streets of the super-morn downtown Msheireb district, David Beckham s down om the billboards and the big flashg former England pta, hband to the former Spice Girl Victoria, father to Brooklyn, Romeo, Harper and Cz, is not jt a face of the World Cup kickg off this Sunday, he is the pre-ement figure – a 2022 versn of the 1966 mast World Cup Willie some might be tempted to say, if not somethg tri to be unrstandg about the temptatn posed by the £150m al that Beckham is said to have been offered by Qatar, albe the value of the ntract is disputed. Two weeks ago, Beckham, donng dark sunglass, posed alongsi the Brish sculptor Hugo Dalton and his stallatn of goln goal posts on Doha’s Lail Cy a jarrg ntrast, Human Rights Watch reported jt a few days before the sunny photoshoot on the sufferg of gay and transgenr people who said they had been taed as recently as October an unrground prison Doha’s Al Dafna district, six south of the goln posts, where they had been varly verbally abed, slapped, kicked and punched until they bled.

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

Robbie Williams and Black Eyed Peas have e unr fire for agreeg to Beckham, ntrary to the pet name Goln Balls given to him by his wife the nocent days of 2008, when he uld do no wrong, has been the central target of the 2002 Beckham posed for the ver of Attu, the gay magaze, and subsequently ma the unniably pneerg statement a game riddled wh homophobia that he was “honoured to have the tag of gay in” distance Beckham has seemgly travelled the last two s might acunt for much of the vehemence of the backlash g his relatnship wh Qatar, a untry wh which he has longstandg lks om his time as a player at the French club, Paris Sat-Germa, owned by Tamim b Hamad Al Thani, the emir of Qatar, now arguably prents the biggt risk to the Beckham brand sce his talent and “curtas” haircut ught the public attentn wh an dac halfway-le goal agast Wimbledon 1996 the red of Manchter Powar, the director of Fare, an anti-discrimatn group that has an arrangement wh Fifa to post monors the World Cup stadiums Qatar, said had plead behd the scen whout succs for the untry’s supreme mtee, charge of the event, to make a public statement welg LGBTQ+ people to the football.

“Dpe Qatar beg a sexist, homophobic and racist dictatorship, he’s reportedly scribed as ‘perfectn’, ” he said. 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? 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”.

OLL BECKHAM JR. RPONDS TO GAY RUMORS

\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.

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

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.