Ryan Atk tells the BBC about his experienc as an openly gay match official after beg named one of Stonewall's Sport Champns.
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.
FIFA REFEREE IGOR BENEVENUTO OUT AS GAY MONTHS BEFORE THE WORLD CUP
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. * gay world cup referee *
Igor Benevenuto, a FIFA soccer referee Brazil, has e out publicly as gay.
HOW ONE OF BRAZIL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SOCCER REFERE CHANGED THE GAME
* gay world cup referee *
In a stirrg statement to Globo Esporte, Benevenuto, 41, talked about the pa of livg a culture and a relign that rejected homosexualy. 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. 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.
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 *
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.
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 *
“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.
Brazil’s Igor Benevenuto be ‘first FIFA-ranked referee to e out as gay’ (Friemann Vogel/Getty Imag). Brazil’s Igor Benevenuto has bee the first FIFA-ranked referee to e out as gay.
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 *
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.
‘I NSIRED CHEMIL STRATN,’ SAYS GAY GBY REFEREE NIGEL OWENS
“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.
REFEREE IGOR BENEVENUTO BE FIRST FIFA-RANKED REFEREE TO PUBLICLY CLARE HIMSELF GAY
Gays are ed to not beg themselv. “There are many gay people soccer.
THE OUTSPORTS GAY-IENDLY WORLD CUP RANKGS OF ALL 32 TEAMS
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.
FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME: A KIWI REF GO TO THE GAY GBY WORLD CUP
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.