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Contents:
- 'GO GAYS!': WHY USA'S LGBTQ WORLD CUP STARS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER
- USWNT’S TOB HEATH’S COMG OUT ART SAYS ‘I’M GAY’ BLOCK LETTERS
'GO GAYS!': WHY USA'S LGBTQ WORLD CUP STARS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER
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Julie Johnston met Zach Ertz at a baseball game at Stanford, where Zach was a junr tight end and Julie was a sophomore midfielr at Santa Clara Universy.
They were the first gay uple to be featured together on the ver of the ESPN Body Issue last summer. Hkle’s words rightfully prompted an uproar the LGBTQ sports muny, and fans of the Portland Thors, another NWSL club, took to boog the fenr for her anti-gay views. “We wish we had done more to show our support for gay pri month as a team, ” Mewis said.
Williams add: “We had to have some hard nversatns about gay pri. Fascatg moment @GrantWahl's podst where Sam Mewis and Lynn Williams discs the North Carola Courage's past failure when me to volly supportg gay rights, and how that shaped the team's rponse to racial jtice. “Go gays!
USWNT’S TOB HEATH’S COMG OUT ART SAYS ‘I’M GAY’ BLOCK LETTERS
“You n’t w a champnship whout gays on your team - ’s never been done before, ever.
But for me, to be gay and fabulo, durg Pri month at the World Cup, is nice. Teammat Tierna Davidson, Adrianna Franch, Ashlyn Harris, and Ali Krieger are all out as gay or bisexual, as are dozens of players on other teams.
Durg the 2018 tournament, two fans were btally beaten an anti-gay attack and at least one gay rights activist was arrted for prottg outsi the Kreml. In Qatar, homosexualy is illegal and punishable by up to seven years prison. Unrstandably, may be hard for players to feel as though the anizatn tly has their 2015, Robbie Rogers, the first active Major League Soccer player to e out as gay, wrote an op-ed for USA Today nouncg FIFA’s cisn to embrace LGBTQ-hostile untri like Rsia and Qatar.