In honor of pri month, EA has announced that one of the crowd members their long nng FIFA anchise is gay.
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- FRENCH SPORTS MISTER PROMIS TO RAISE GAY PRI FLAG IF FRANCE WS THE 2022 FIFA WORLD CUP
- EA HONORS PRI MONTH BY ANNOUNCG ONE OF THE CROWD MEMBERS FIFA IS GAY
- FIFA CELEBRAT PRI, MONTHS BEFORE HOLDG WORLD CUP WHERE BEG GAY IS ILLEGAL
- QATAR TO ALLOW PRI FLAGS DURG 2022 WORLD CUP – BUT WILL STILL LOCK UP GAY MEN FOR HAVG SEX
FRENCH SPORTS MISTER PROMIS TO RAISE GAY PRI FLAG IF FRANCE WS THE 2022 FIFA WORLD CUP
Associated PrsDec 10, 2020, 04:51 AM ETRabow flags will be allowed stadiums at the 2022 World Cup after Qatar said would ply wh FIFA l promotg tolerance and cln at match spe the Arab untry's strict anti-LGBTQ ls than two years until the tournament, though, ncerns persist about the treatment facg gay fans Qatar due the nservative relig prohibg same-sex relatns that nflict wh FIFA's stance agast homophobia. "I'm an openly gay woman football, so this is personally, to me, somethg I'm close to as well, " FIFA's chief social rponsibily and tn officer Joyce Cook said.
"Ahead of the stagg Club World Cup last year, Qatar brought a member of Liverpool's "Kop Outs" supporters' group and his hband to the untry to offer assuranc that gay fans would be wele. In se you hadn’t heard, is illegal to be gay Qatar. While many pani and anizatns hold the rabow flag back their engagements the Middle East and wh other untri that prohib homosexualy, this is a big, bold statement.
"Cyd Zeigler, who scrib himself as a gay sports wrer, h out at the backlash, scribg as "crazy" that Amerins would turn their back on the team bee of this tweeted: "LOL the 'Amerins' who are now sudnly hopg the US los at the #WorldCup bee the team has some rabow flags around the facily Qatar.
EA HONORS PRI MONTH BY ANNOUNCG ONE OF THE CROWD MEMBERS FIFA IS GAY
Image hatg your untry jt bee s soccer team might not hate gay people. For at least one day, he wore the exprsn of every LGBTQ soccer fan after seeg FIFA award the World Cup to Qatar, where homosexualy is illegal. To prott the untry’s homophobic law, the ptas of seven teams om Europe planned to prott Qatar’s ban on LGBTQ upl by wearg rabow armbands but ultimately cid not to after beg threatened by FIFA wh yellow rds.
Qatari law crimaliz sex outsi marriage, cludg gay sex. In the terpretatn of Sharia law that Qatar follows, sex outsi of marriage, cludg homosexualy, is punishable by jail time and, as a maximum sentence, ath by stong, though there isn’t available evince that such a punishment has ever been ed. Nasser Mohamed, a gay Qatari livg exile the US, explaed to Vox.
FIFA CELEBRAT PRI, MONTHS BEFORE HOLDG WORLD CUP WHERE BEG GAY IS ILLEGAL
So ’s really hard to build a gay muny. Mohamed left Qatar his 20s for medil school “wh the tentn of never g back” bee of the limed life he led as a gay man there.
Though there are small pockets of LGBTQ people Qatar, there’s not a gay scene, Mohamed said.
“If you’re an expat, you’re able to live your life like you want, ” a gay Arab man livg Doha told Rters. I know gay men workers’ mps wouldn’t be able to live the same way. The French Sports Mister, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, recently announced that if the France Natnal team ws the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the gay pri flag will be raised celebratn.
QATAR TO ALLOW PRI FLAGS DURG 2022 WORLD CUP – BUT WILL STILL LOCK UP GAY MEN FOR HAVG SEX
Before the World Cup kicked off Qatar, where homosexualy is illegal, the rights of the LGBTQ+ muny, as well as the e of the rabow symbol, were hot topics of discsn. This is done to protect them om beg attacked for promotg gay rights.
— In honor of pri month, EA has announced that one of the crowd members their long nng FIFA anchise is gay. Today, we’ve taken a massive step toward showg that our game by featurg our first openly gay FIFA character: one of the crowd members seen the background of some FIFA gam, ” EA CEO Andrew Wilson explaed an then proceed to go to replay mo durg a game of FIFA, panned the mera to the crowd until stoppg on an nocuo, particularly low-r man standg alone the upper stands of the stadium. He’s 47 years old and he lov two thgs: soccer and his gay hband Gee, ” Wilson excedly said over a static image of a low poly man a whe shirt, jeans, and holdg a beer.