'Go gays!': Why USA's LGBTQ World Cup stars are more important than ever | USA women's football team | The Guardian

Contents:

• 'GO GAYS!': WHY USA'S LGBTQ WORLD CUP STARS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER
• A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

'GO GAYS!': WHY USA'S LGBTQ WORLD CUP STARS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER

The number doubl the 40 openly gay, lbian and bisexual women who peted of the women are om North and South Ameri, Europe, Atralia and New Zealand, Outsports reported.

Meanwhile, the 2022 Men’s World Cup was set to be hosted Qatar, where homosexualy is illegal and punishable by up to three years prison. The associatn’s cisn prompted some fans and athlet — cludg the first openly gay major league soccer player — to speak out. “If actns speak lour than words, then the msage FIFA sends to gay athlet is pafully clear.

A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

Not only don’t they have our backs, our liv don’t matter, ” Robbie Rogers, one of the first openly gay major league soccer players, said a 2015 opn article for USA Today after FIFA announced the untri that would host the upg tournaments. “So for any gay soccer player who has hop of playg for the U. ”“I thk signifi partly this new generatn of young women who are g to the sport, who have grown up a different cultural ntext where beg openly out, beg queer, beg non-genr nformg — whatever kd of inty — are not stigmatized to the extent to which they were the past, ” Cooky told NBC untri where homosexualy is still stigmatized, she add, many players probably rema men profsnal soccer have been slower to e out.

There are currently only three known openly gay profsnal male soccer players the world — Coll Mart of the U. S., Anton Hysen of Swen and Andy Brennan of Atralia — and there were no openly gay men playg the 2018 World photo: Coll Mart announced he is gay on social media Friday, June 29, 2018, makg him the only active male athlete the major U.