Was Pele Gay? - Sportsmanor

Contents:

• DIEGO MARADONA IS NOT GAY
• DIEGO MARADONA ASSUR HE'S NOT GAY
• WAS PELE GAY?
• DIEGO MARADONA JT YELLED AN ANTI-GAY SLUR THE MIDDLE OF THE WORLD CUP
• DIEGO MARADONA ASSUR HE'S NOT GAY

DIEGO MARADONA IS NOT GAY

The once-great Maradona wants everyone the world to know, jt se there was any doubt, that he’s not gay. I received an email om Daniel Alarn this morng askg whether I planned to wre anythg about his dgbatns’ “I’m not gay” prs nference, bee if I wasn’t, he tend to. One prum that said reporters were of the male persuasn, but that don’t make Diego gay.

This begs the qutn whether a man is gay, or at least gay-cur, if he dat a bte. Jt bee his spent his reer nng around wh a rrière that amply filled those tight shorts, people assume he’s gay. You n be sure that he’s never enuntered a gay man, bee no gay man would be able to hold his tongue—no gay man would be able to not say, “Diego, darlg.

DIEGO MARADONA ASSUR HE'S NOT GAY

I am gay. I was gay before I began to play soccer over 40 years ago.

WAS PELE GAY?

It’s been 28 years sce a iend and I anized one of the first gay soccer teams the world. I have played on gay teams and straight on—I’m so gay, though, that as soon as I jo a straight team be mixed.

DIEGO MARADONA JT YELLED AN ANTI-GAY SLUR THE MIDDLE OF THE WORLD CUP

Our gay team enuntered a lot of problems on the fields the early days. The club’s first team (most of them twenty years my junr) won 4-0, and was wonrful to note how thgs have changed, how ltle difference there was between the two opposg teams (te, the gay teams’ uniforms were more ordated) is San Francis, and ’s 2010, so ’s not difficult to unrstand the general acceptance. However, there are dozens of gay teams around the world now.

The last gay tournament I played —or I should say, sat on the bench —was Buenos Air.

Y, Diego, three Argentean gay teams entered the tournament. I have been out for so long, I thought I had bee post-homosexual.

DIEGO MARADONA ASSUR HE'S NOT GAY

Homophobia is rampant soccer, probably more so than any other sport. Le Sx’s experience at beg bullied and harassed bee was assumed he was gay (he wasn’t, but he liked to read the Guardian) is so outrageo that is farcilly has been gog on for so long, and the suatn is so unlikely to change, that I’ve grown ured to the hurt.

Do you thk Le Sx would have been harassed for beg gay if he had a blond girliend and read the Guardian? He isn’t gay, and his girliend is much hotter than Veroni, though bte. Argenta soccer ach Diego Maradona lov to hug and kiss and players before and durg and after gam -- but don't get the imprsn that he's gay or anythg.

Maradona not gay? Pele reportedly nfsed he had “homosexual relatnships”. Many years ago, the soccer in ught the world off guard when he admted to havg homosexual relatns wh other men.