This gay Major League Soccer referee is g out to ease his md - Outsports

Contents:

• IGOR BENEVENUTO BE FIRST FIFA-RANKED REFEREE TO E OUT AS GAY
• HOW ONE OF BRAZIL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SOCCER REFERE CHANGED THE GAME
• YOUNG SOCCER REFEREE HAS THRIVED ALL THE WHILE BEG OPENLY GAY
• BRAZILIAN SOCCER REFEREE SAYS HE IS GAY, HOP TO INSPIRE OTHERS
• PRO SOCCER REFEREE OUT AFTER GAY SLUR ED DURG CHAMPNSHIP MATCH
• THIS GAY MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER REFEREE IS G OUT TO EASE HIS MD
• GAY PRO SOCCER REFEREE CLAIMS OVER 30% OF MALE SOCCER PLAYERS ARE GAY OR BI. IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?
• EFL REFEREE JAM ADCK: ‘I’M AN OPENLY GAY MAN FOOTBALL’
• ANTI-GAY CHANTS HALT USA-MEXI MEN'S SOCCER MATCH
• REFEREE ENDS USMNT ROUT OVER MEXI EARLY AMID ANTI-GAY CHANTS
• BRA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALL REFEREE: THE STORY OF RYAN ATK
• BRAZILIAN SOCCER REF SAYS HE IS GAY, HOP TO SPIRE OTHERS
• UNED STAT MEN’S SOCCER TEAM’S W OVER MEXI END EARLY BY REFEREE AFTER ANTI-GAY CHANTS
• RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)

IGOR BENEVENUTO BE FIRST FIFA-RANKED REFEREE TO E OUT AS GAY

Adriana GarciaJul 9, 2022, 06:29 AM ETBrazilian referee Igor Benevenuto has bee the first FIFA-ranked referee football history to e out as gay. Benevenuto, 41, announced durg a Globoporte podst that he is gay and exprsed his joy that he is fally ready to be a statement to GloboEsporte, FIFA said: "FIFA wel and supports referee Igor Benevenuto and his cisn to e out. Gay civil rights activist Luiz Mott found one of Brazil’s first gay rights anizatns, Gpo Gay da Bahia.

Acrdg to Gpo Gay da Bahia, roughly “3, 100 homosexuals” were killed om hate-motivated crim between 1980 and 2009, and the rate of vlence agast gay Brazilians is creasg.

Je, along wh Válter Senra, who went by the nickname “the Bian, ” Plo Rodrigu da Silva, and Sérg Cenezi, were the few openly gay Brazilian refere facg such scty 1980s. Acrdg to Plar, the print of the Brazilian Football Conferatn (CBF) at the time, João Ellis Filho, stated that no homosexual referee would manage the Copa União petn.

HOW ONE OF BRAZIL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SOCCER REFERE CHANGED THE GAME

The homophobic cints happened que often, but they didn’t phase Je. “When Margarida me on televisn to intify himself as a mp gay [man], we supported his visibily, ” says Luiz Mott. Ironilly, his me, Armando Marqu, mted durg his tenure at CBF to riddg the anizatn of gay refere—or those, like Clés, who were assumed to be gay.

YOUNG SOCCER REFEREE HAS THRIVED ALL THE WHILE BEG OPENLY GAY

Almost 20 years later, was big news the soccer world when FIFA-ranked Brazilian referee Igor Benevenuto me out publicly as gay the months before the 2022 World Cup Qatar, where gay sex is illegal. For refere and assistants like Sérg Cenezi or gay soccer leagu like LiGay, that’s what Je reprented the 1980s.

Soccer Feratn official for 11 years, love sports and am openly gay. Beg gay and passnate about sports is somethg that was new to me, but I am here to ntue breakg stereotyp. While I am proud to ll myself a Hoosier, I grew up around many who didn’t believe was OK to be gay.

I jt thought was normal, but I didn’t realize until later my youth that I was gay.

BRAZILIAN SOCCER REFEREE SAYS HE IS GAY, HOP TO INSPIRE OTHERS

The 41-year-old Igor Benevenuto, a FIFA-ranked referee, hop his announcement that he is gay will spire others soccer. A FIFA-ranked referee Brazil says he hop his announcement that he is gay will spire others soccer. “Soccer was for men and sce an early age I knew I was gay.

“There are many gay people soccer, " he said, addg that the vast majory still feel they n't talk openly. Je José Eiano dos Santos (1954-1995) was a popular referee Brazil and oversaw profsnal match after sayg he was gay.

PRO SOCCER REFEREE OUT AFTER GAY SLUR ED DURG CHAMPNSHIP MATCH

Tom Harald Hagen has e out publicly as gay after he officiated a match which a gay slur was ed by a player. “It’s time to say I’m gay, ” Hagen told Glomdalen (article is behd a pay wall).

The terview was published jt a day after Hagen officiated the pro league’s champnship match, durg which a player lled an opposg ach a gay slur, acrdg to Fanatik. Glomdalen’s g out is siar to that of NBA referee Bill Kennedy, who me out publicly after allegedly beg the target of gay slurs and threats thrown at him by Rajon Rondo. Rather than ntug to hi om my fears of rejectn, I cid was time to stop hidg the closet and tell everyone my life that I am gay.

THIS GAY MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER REFEREE IS G OUT TO EASE HIS MD

Lookg back, seems lghable how terrified I was of sayg those three words, "I am gay. In June, I realized that one of those distractns for me was hidg a part of who I am: the fact that I am gay. Now that I am no longer tryg to hi that I am gay and beg te to myself, has helped foster a more tstg and rpectful relatnship wh fellow refere.

Hidg the fact that I am gay om my iends, fay and lleagu was distractg, unproductive and mentally drag.

Before g out, I would often read the stori of other athlet g out as gay. It helped me realize that beg gay is jt one part of who I am as a person. The profsnal soccer referee Brazil who recently me out publicly as gay is now claimg that 30% to 40% of profsnal soccer players are gay or bisexual.

GAY PRO SOCCER REFEREE CLAIMS OVER 30% OF MALE SOCCER PLAYERS ARE GAY OR BI. IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?

“Thirty to forty percent of them are homosexual or bisexual, or have done somethg at one time wh another man, ” Benevenuto is reported to have said. “You would be surprised at jt who is homosexual this dtry. He’s certaly right about one thg: I’d be pretty shocked if a third of profsnal soccer players were gay or bisexual.

In talkg wh women profsnal sports, the number of gay and bi women pro sports is very high.

Yet the ia that a third of profsnal athlet men’s soccer are gay or bi fi all logic. A 2019 survey of men Brazil found that only about 2% of rponnts said they were gay or bi, wh about 95% sayg they are heterosexual (the rt eher didn’t know how to rpond or want to rpond). The ia that 2% of Brazilian men intify as gay or bi — but 30% to 40% of the natn’s male pro soccer players are — is ankly impossible.

EFL REFEREE JAM ADCK: ‘I’M AN OPENLY GAY MAN FOOTBALL’

The culture surroundg men’s sports is macho and at tim homophobic — hardly a place you’d expect gay and bi men to flock to. Still, ’s impossible to believe that a third or male pro soccer players are gay or bi.

ANTI-GAY CHANTS HALT USA-MEXI MEN'S SOCCER MATCH

We’ve seen wild claims before that have never panned out, cludg one guy who said he knew 20 gay profsnal soccer players.

REFEREE ENDS USMNT ROUT OVER MEXI EARLY AMID ANTI-GAY CHANTS

When I talk to people about Provcetown the summer — cludg people who’ve been there once or twice — and I ask them how gay is, the rponse is often somethg like “Oh ’s 90% gay” or “jt about everyone there is gay.

BRA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALL REFEREE: THE STORY OF RYAN ATK

But when you’re ed to your lol town or cy beg 3-5% gay, sudnly a third feels like “everybody’s gay! (By the way, if you’re lookg for that, the Fire Island P is actually 90% gay men. There are, I’m sure a handful — maybe even more — of gay and bi men pro soccer, cludg Brazil.

EFL referee Jam Adck has spoken publicly about beg an openly gay man , speakg on the BBC’s LGBT Sport Podst, said he has received nothg but support om lleagu wh football after first g out a ago and hop that will not change now.

BRAZILIAN SOCCER REF SAYS HE IS GAY, HOP TO SPIRE OTHERS

“And, to be hont, there’s been tert om lleagu sayg, ‘I’m proud of you Jam, that you’re able to be openly gay sport, ’ bee they know the barriers that are still place. Fans of the Mexi men's natnal team uld be hard shoutg anti-gay chants unison throughout a soccer match agast the Uned Stat on Thursday Las Vegas. June 16 (UPI) -- Anti-gay chants ed a referee to stop a soccer match between the Uned Stat Men's Natnal Team and Mexi, rultg a U.

An anti-gay slur uld be heard beg shouted by fans unison throughout the match, which featured four red-rd ejectns and 34 fouls between the soccer rivals. PlayGomez slams 'embarrassg' anti-gay chants durg USMNT vs. Mexi was end early by the referee due to anti-gay chants.

(1:24)Car HernanzJun 16, 2023, 01:46 AM ETThe Uned Stat men's natnal team's 3-0 w over Mexi the Conf Natns League semifal on Thursday was halted before the pletn of send-half stoppage time by the referee amid anti-gay chantg. Referee Ivan Barton, who had already hand out four red rds the game, psed the game the 89th mute bee of anti-gay chantg heard om the crowd at Allegiant Stadium Las Vegas. Goalkeeper Matt Turner was once aga greeted by the anti-gay chant.

UNED STAT MEN’S SOCCER TEAM’S W OVER MEXI END EARLY BY REFEREE AFTER ANTI-GAY CHANTS

"The Mexin Football Feratn (FMF) has stggled recent years wh curtailg the anti-gay chant that is typilly yelled durg opposg goal has issued f to the FMF bee of the actn of fans, which clud a $108, 000 sanctn January for the chant at the 2022 World FMF has ma attempts to eradite the discrimatory yells through avenu such as public service announcements, social media posts and pregame announcements om players. Out sport: The experienc of openly gay and lbian athlet petive sport. Fifa boss Sepp Blatter sparks Qatar gay ntroversy.

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RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)

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