A rerd number of out LGBTQ players make this year’s tournament a feast for gay fans.
Contents:
- A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
- IN FOC: WHY ARE GAY WOMEN OVER-REPRENTED FOOTBALL?
- 'GO GAYS!': WHY USA'S LGBTQ WORLD CUP STARS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER
- WHY ARE MORE FEMALE PROFSNAL FOOTBALLERS OPENLY GAY OR BISEXUAL THAN MALE PLAYERS?
A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
* gay women in soccer *
Gay, lbian, bisexual, trans and queer soccer players who are publicly out — now at least 95 total — make up almost 13% of all the athlet petg the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup Atralia and New Zealand, Outsports has found.
Countri like Nigeria and Zambia imprison gay people.
IN FOC: WHY ARE GAY WOMEN OVER-REPRENTED FOOTBALL?
The numbers support my hypothis that the Netherlands boasts the objectively gayt squad petg the 2020 Olympics. * gay women in soccer *
Still ’s hearteng to see some women om South Ai, where homosexualy has been legal for 25 years. It will be a glor month to be a gay fan.
Last time at the 2019 Women’s World Cup, the Netherlands lay claim to the honor of beg the team wh the most out LGBTQ players, but this year Atralia boasts 10 out players and overtak them for the tle of Gayt Team 2k23. Ireland’s historic entry to the tournament marks another triumph for out midfielr Sead Farrelly, whose natnal team but and 2023 return to the NWSL e more than six years after retirg om soccer the wake of systemic homophobic and sexual abe wh the league, which the Athletic first reported on 2021. Among them are 40 out gay, lbian and bisexual women — 38 players, one ach and a traer.
'GO GAYS!': WHY USA'S LGBTQ WORLD CUP STARS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER
Wh homophobic attus on the rise the US, the explos of gay Amerin hero on the pch France are a wele sight * gay women in soccer *
It’s likely there are more lbian and bisexual women on the teams than we know about, pecially sce some participatg untri — like Nigeria, Cameroon and Jamai punish homosexualy wh prison time — and other untri still stggle wh varyg gre of societal homophobia that may keep players closeted. "Navratilova, a trailblazer for gay rights, tweeted a one-word rponse: "Yik...
The club tak s name om New York Cy’s 1969 Stonewall rts, which beme a historic watershed moment the gay liberatn movement the U. At the last Women’s World Cup 2019, there were at least 41 players or ach who intified as gay or bisexual, while durg the men’s tournament 2018, there were no known gay players. There are also no Premier League male players who have publicly intified as LGBTQ+ but England’s Lns squad alone, there are at least five players who are gay or bisexual.
In May 2022, Blackpool FC midfielr Jake Daniels beme Bra’s first active profsnal player to publicly e out as gay sce Jt Fashanu 1990; the former Norwich Cy and Nottgham Fort player died by suici eight years later. Back then, even Kg herself wrote off the relatnship wh the woman who outed her as a “flg, ” aaid of facg homophobia om the public and om her own parents. The answer, obvly, is no, but beg an openly gay athlete was and is still a gamble for many athlet.
WHY ARE MORE FEMALE PROFSNAL FOOTBALLERS OPENLY GAY OR BISEXUAL THAN MALE PLAYERS?
Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib publicly me out June 2021, makg him the first openly gay man to actively play the NFL. * gay women in soccer *
Wh at least 142 publicly out LGBTQ athlet set to pete the Tokyo Olympics ’s safe to say that this year’s gam will be the gayt history. As Megan Rapoe says, “You n’t w a champnship whout gays on your team – ’s never been done before, ever. ”“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.