Mexin soccer feratn aga urg fans to stop g chant after FIFA hands tought penalty to date rponse to persistent e of anti-gay slur.
Contents:
- EXCLIVE: MEXIN SOCCER FERATN WARNS REFS MAY HALT PLAY IF FANS E ANTI-GAY SLUR
- HOW ALLEGIANCE TO AN ANTI-GAY FAN CHANT AT MEXI SOCCER GAM MIGHT SK EL TRI'S WORLD CUP FORTUN
- GAY RIGHTS
- LOS ANGEL RAMS KICKER MATT GAY POK FUN AT NFL UNIFORM VLATN TWEET
EXCLIVE: MEXIN SOCCER FERATN WARNS REFS MAY HALT PLAY IF FANS E ANTI-GAY SLUR
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Mexi’s natnal team will play s first two home match World Cup qualifyg whout spectators, a penalty for s fans’ e of an anti-gay chant durg last sprg’s pre-Olympic tournament Guadalajara, the untry’s soccer feratn announced at a Mexi Cy news nference gam Mexi will play behd closed doors are agast Jamai on Sept. There is vigoro bate over whether the chant is rogatory sce the offendg word n have many meangs Spanish, one of which is a slur ed to mean gay Luisa has said that nversatn is meangls. ” Members of Pasión 1927, a Los Angel-based fan group of the Mexin natnal soccer team, share their thoughts on a popular chant that is wily nsired homophobic.
The Mexin soccer feratn has for years asked s fans to rea om g a wildly popular anti-gay chant, both durg gam of the domtic Liga MX and ternatnally when the untry’s natnal team was playg. Now ’s gettg some high-powered help om FIFA, the world erng body for two years ago, FIFA approved a disciplary that allows refere to end match if fans e chants or display behavr emed to be homophobic or racist.
Fifteen other natnal feratns were also fed by FIFA over their fans’ e of homophobic cheers durg World Cup qualifyg four years ago, but the f were so small they had ltle the chant returned durg Mexi’s tournament opener Rsia, FIFA threatened to ban Mexin fans om the World Cup and the behavr origs of the chant are hazy, but is believed to date to a Mexin club match 2007 and is generally ed when the opposg goalkeeper mak a goal kick. There is vigoro bate over whether the chant is offensive sce the offendg word is said to have many meangs Spanish, one of which is a rogatory slur ed to mean gay Luisa said that nversatn is meangls. Have rporated an anti-gay slur to a chant aimed at opposg goalkeepers.
HOW ALLEGIANCE TO AN ANTI-GAY FAN CHANT AT MEXI SOCCER GAM MIGHT SK EL TRI'S WORLD CUP FORTUN
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"Soccer self is a medium for change, and we need to regnize how impactful language n be, " said Janelly Farias, a fenr on Mexi's women's natnal team who is gay. "When people are g homophobic language, whether 's tentnal or not, n be very trimental. In ristg to cease and sist over the years, fans have argued that the chant is a part of Mexi's sports culture, and that bears no anti-gay bent when ed 's more, the perceived hypocrisy of FIFA policg the behavr of Mexi fans the stands but remag silent on laws opprsive to LGBTQ+ muni Rsia and Qatar -- the most recent World Cup host and the next le, rpectively -- has also fueled ristance.
"Clearly, people aren't chantg at goalkeepers and attackg them for thkg they're gay. "It has a nasty, homophobic nnotatn any sense. For many gay men, 's the last word they hear before they're attacked, or killed.
"I have gay iends, and talkg to them about opened my ey. Those efforts have foced on the potential on-field nsequenc yet make no mentn of the slur's anti-gay ntext.
GAY RIGHTS
"But prev statements om top officials, players and ach later tasked wh askg fans to stop the chant portrayed a culture at odds wh the signatn of the chant as anti-gay. "I don't see as homophobic, or offensive.
"In that moment, you're not thkg about disrpectg someone or sultg homosexuals. In dog so, the feratn ed a fense that Mexi fans monly rece: The word is employed not as an anti-gay slur, but rather as a tool to distract the goalkeeper to an errant kick.
"I'm glad somethg is fally beg done about this, but I thk we n be more direct by sayg this is a homophobic chant and be very head-on about . Meanwhile, activists and some of Mexi's own ele players ntue to lobby the FMF to embrace a more ank discsn on homophobia and machismo orr to rete fans and end the chant once and for all. Given ternatnal soccer’s challenged history of LGBTQ cln, the Rabow Lac project is a big al — pecially the Premier League, where there’s been only one openly gay player history, Jt Fashanu.
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The Early Gay Rights Movement In 1924, Henry Gerber, a German immigrant, found Chigo the Society for Human Rights, the first documented gay rights anizatn the Uned Stat. Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter. Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels.