Brazil's Igor Benevenuto is the first FIFA-ranked football referee to e out as gay and he hop his announcement will spire others soccer.
Contents:
- IGOR BENEVENUTO BE FIRST FIFA-RANKED REFEREE TO E OUT AS GAY
- FIFA REFEREE IGOR BENEVENUTO OUT AS GAY MONTHS BEFORE THE WORLD CUP
- HOW ONE OF BRAZIL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SOCCER REFERE CHANGED THE GAME
- TOP FOOTBALL REFEREE IGOR BENEVENUTO OUT AS GAY AHEAD OF WORLD CUP
- RYAN ATK: FROM LMAN TO CHAMPN - FIRST OPENLY GAY REFEREE ON EXPERIENC
- LGBT GROUPS ACCE FIFA OF HYPOCRISY FOR PUBLICLY SUPPORTG UK SOCCER'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER 30 YEARS, BUT READILY HOSTG A WORLD CUP QATAR
- ‘I NSIRED CHEMIL STRATN,’ SAYS GAY GBY REFEREE NIGEL OWENS
- REFEREE IGOR BENEVENUTO BE FIRST FIFA-RANKED REFEREE TO PUBLICLY CLARE HIMSELF GAY
- THE OUTSPORTS GAY-IENDLY WORLD CUP RANKGS OF ALL 32 TEAMS
- FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME: A KIWI REF GO TO THE GAY GBY WORLD CUP
IGOR BENEVENUTO BE FIRST FIFA-RANKED REFEREE TO E OUT AS GAY
Brazilian referee Igor Benevenuto has bee the first FIFA-ranked referee football history to e out as gay. * gay world cup referee *
Adriana GarciaJul 9, 2022, 06:29 AM ETBrazilian referee Igor Benevenuto has bee the first FIFA-ranked referee football history to e out as gay.
Benevenuto, 41, announced durg a Globoporte podst that he is gay and exprsed his joy that he is fally ready to be a statement to GloboEsporte, FIFA said: "FIFA wel and supports referee Igor Benevenuto and his cisn to e out. Igor Benevenuto, a FIFA soccer referee Brazil, has e out publicly as gay.
In a stirrg statement to Globo Esporte, Benevenuto, 41, talked about the pa of livg a culture and a relign that rejected homosexualy.
FIFA REFEREE IGOR BENEVENUTO OUT AS GAY MONTHS BEFORE THE WORLD CUP
* gay world cup referee *
Gay sex is illegal Qatar, and FIFA has been experienced heightened scty of late for the selectn of Qatar as the World Cup host. I will jt be Igor, male, gay, who rpects people and their choic.
Gay civil rights activist Luiz Mott found one of Brazil’s first gay rights anizatns, Gpo Gay da Bahia.
HOW ONE OF BRAZIL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SOCCER REFERE CHANGED THE GAME
Ryan Atk tells the BBC about his experienc as an openly gay match official after beg named one of Stonewall's Sport Champns. * gay world cup referee *
Acrdg to Gpo Gay da Bahia, roughly “3, 100 homosexuals” were killed om hate-motivated crim between 1980 and 2009, and the rate of vlence agast gay Brazilians is creasg.
Je, along wh Válter Senra, who went by the nickname “the Bian, ” Plo Rodrigu da Silva, and Sérg Cenezi, were the few openly gay Brazilian refere facg such scty 1980s. Acrdg to Plar, the print of the Brazilian Football Conferatn (CBF) at the time, João Ellis Filho, stated that no homosexual referee would manage the Copa União petn. The homophobic cints happened que often, but they didn’t phase Je.
TOP FOOTBALL REFEREE IGOR BENEVENUTO OUT AS GAY AHEAD OF WORLD CUP
Openly gay gby referee Nigel Owens might never have achieved his inic stat if he’d had gone ahead wh plans for a chemil stratn. * gay world cup referee *
“When Margarida me on televisn to intify himself as a mp gay [man], we supported his visibily, ” says Luiz Mott. Ironilly, his me, Armando Marqu, mted durg his tenure at CBF to riddg the anizatn of gay refere—or those, like Clés, who were assumed to be gay.
Almost 20 years later, was big news the soccer world when FIFA-ranked Brazilian referee Igor Benevenuto me out publicly as gay the months before the 2022 World Cup Qatar, where gay sex is illegal. For refere and assistants like Sérg Cenezi or gay soccer leagu like LiGay, that’s what Je reprented the 1980s.
RYAN ATK: FROM LMAN TO CHAMPN - FIRST OPENLY GAY REFEREE ON EXPERIENC
Referee Igor Benevenuto, a 41-year-old FIFA-ranked Brazilian referee ma history recently when he announced that he is gay. * gay world cup referee *
Brazil’s Igor Benevenuto be ‘first FIFA-ranked referee to e out as gay’ (Friemann Vogel/Getty Imag).
LGBT GROUPS ACCE FIFA OF HYPOCRISY FOR PUBLICLY SUPPORTG UK SOCCER'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER 30 YEARS, BUT READILY HOSTG A WORLD CUP QATAR
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. * gay world cup referee *
Brazil’s Igor Benevenuto has bee the first FIFA-ranked referee to e out as gay. The 41-year-old football referee said that g out as gay, he hop to spire other LGBTQ+ athlet to speak out about their sexualy.
“Soccer was for men, and sce an early age I knew I was gay… there was not a more perfect place to hi my sexualy, ” Benevenuto told the Nos Armárs dos Vtiárs podst. Gays are ed to not beg themselv. “There are many gay people soccer.
Blackpool’s Jake Daniels ma history May as the UK’s first active male pro footballer to e out as gay sce Jt Fashanu 1990. He told Sky Sports that “beg gay or bi or queer” men’s football is “still a taboo” subject, but that was a “massive relief” to e out.
‘I NSIRED CHEMIL STRATN,’ SAYS GAY GBY REFEREE NIGEL OWENS
Atralian player Josh Cavallo, who is gay, has said that he would be aaid of travellg to Qatar if lled up for the World Cup.
Ryan Atk has refereed four Natnal League gam this season, most recently Dagenham & Redbridge's w agast Alrshot on 16 November"I got a lot of people jt pattg me on the back and sayg 'well done, don't matter that you are gay'. "In Augt 2017, Ryan Atk beme the first man refereeg England's profsnal leagu to e out as then, he has gone om workg as an assistant referee the English Football League to refereeg the Natnal League this nng the le to beg the man the middle, he has been nomated has been named as one of Stonewall's Sport Champns for the chary's Rabow Lac mpaign, which started on Friday and is aimed at tacklg homophobia sport, Atk spoke to the BBC's LGBT Sport Podst and says he hop that others n follow his footsteps.
REFEREE IGOR BENEVENUTO BE FIRST FIFA-RANKED REFEREE TO PUBLICLY CLARE HIMSELF GAY
"'Still work to be done'Wybe goalkeeper Ryan Allsop reported alleged abe to referee John Bby at half-time their w agast Tranmere RoversMany refere workg English football n speak of the sults they are exposed to om the stands, and even as recently as the past week, there was an alleged cint of homophobic abe a League One occurred durg Tranmere's match agast Wybe and led to a man beg arrted. And if we haven't even achieved that, then homophobia football is trailg behd. "'The culture is slowly changg'Atralian gby unn thori end Israel Fol's ntract over a social media post which he said "hell awas" gay peopleSiar problems exist other sports too.
THE OUTSPORTS GAY-IENDLY WORLD CUP RANKGS OF ALL 32 TEAMS
Earlier this year, Atralian gby unn thori end Israel Fol's ntract over a social media post which he said "hell awas" gay England forward Billy Vunipola was later warned by his club si Saracens about his behavur after fendg Fol's actns.
Meanwhile, no profsnal footballer the Uned Kgdom has yet e out as gay, a suatn Atk is hopeful will said: "It n sometim be slightly dishearteng to thk that there are other people who are LGBT who don't feel that 's the right time for them or have the nfince to e out.
FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME: A KIWI REF GO TO THE GAY GBY WORLD CUP
"Stonewall's Sport Champns 2019Amaz LeThi (bodybuilr)Charlie Mart (racg driver)Corne Humphreys (sprter)John Dickson-Lilley (Paralympic skier)Lizzie Williams (wheelchair racer)Michael Gunng (swimmer)Philippa York (cyclist)Ryan Atk (football referee)Tom Bosworth (race walker)Beth Fisher (former hockey player and sport journalist)Huw Ware (PDC darts referee)Buildg a dialogueWh the 2022 World Cup Qatar - a untry where homosexualy is illegal - fast approachg, Atk says his experienc at last year's World Cup Rsia gave a flavour of what to expect. FIFA tweeted s support for Jake Daniels after the Blackpool player me out as gay Monday.