World Cup 2022: As a gay woman I'd never want to go to Qatar - footballers should speak out over human rights

Contents:

• A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL 61 OUT GAY PLAYERS THE WOMEN’S FOOTBALL PREMIER LEAGUE
• 'GO GAYS!': WHY USA'S LGBTQ WORLD CUP STARS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER
• IN FOC: WHY ARE GAY WOMEN OVER-REPRENTED FOOTBALL?
• WHY ARE MORE FEMALE PROFSNAL FOOTBALLERS OPENLY GAY OR BISEXUAL THAN MALE PLAYERS?
• WORLD CUP 2022: AS A GAY WOMAN I’D NEVER WANT TO GO TO QATAR – FOOTBALLERS SHOULD SPEAK OUT OVER HUMAN RIGHTS

A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL 61 OUT GAY PLAYERS THE WOMEN’S FOOTBALL PREMIER LEAGUE

Wele to the gayt league all of women’s ternatnal sports, or so I believe: the premier league. While makg my WNBA list and NWSL list, there are about double as many nfirmed straight people as there are nfirmed gay people a league, wh the rt beg unnfirmed eher directn.

However, the Premier League, if you aren’t nfirmed gay, you’re probably jt an unknown, bee there were veryyy few nfirmed straight players. Wh 9 out gay players on the team, there’s no shortage of players and drama to root for. Wh four out gay players on the team, this ranks the middle for gayns, but closer to the top for ter-team romanc, wh Julia Zigtti Olme and Emma Kullberg beg publilly together.

If you’re a Leicter fan, I hate to break to you but this is the least gay team the league- at least publicly. The two out gay players aren’t even datg each other!

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

Liverpool players Yana Daniels and Jasme Matthews are datg, and the other two out gay players are also public relatnships wh cute uple photos on their stagrams! I hontly don’t know anythg about this team, but there’s a lot of gay players and seems like a fun team to cheer for.

In 2019, 41 gay and bisexual women peted the World Cup, and six of the players were Lns. Among them are 40 out gay, lbian and bisexual women — 38 players, one ach and a traer.

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.

IN FOC: WHY ARE GAY WOMEN OVER-REPRENTED FOOTBALL?

“Go gays! “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.

WHY ARE MORE FEMALE PROFSNAL FOOTBALLERS OPENLY GAY OR BISEXUAL THAN MALE PLAYERS?

“If actns speak lour than words, then the msage FIFA sends to gay athlet is pafully clear, ” wrote Rogers. So for any gay soccer player who has hop of playg for the U.

You n’t w a champnship whout gays on your team – ’s never been done before, ever. Rapoe peted for her untry last summer, durg Pri month, along wh the 39 other proudly gay players the year on om that glor Women’s World Cup, and physil Pri events may be ncelled, but the protts and gathergs have moved onle.

WORLD CUP 2022: AS A GAY WOMAN I’D NEVER WANT TO GO TO QATAR – FOOTBALLERS SHOULD SPEAK OUT OVER HUMAN RIGHTS

The very prence of such loud, toxic and aggrsive homophobic language rerc the ia that homosexualy is not tolerated the spac.