FIFA celebrat Pri, to hold World Cup where beg gay is illegal - Outsports

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• EA HONORS PRI MONTH BY ANNOUNCG ONE OF THE CROWD MEMBERS FIFA IS GAY
• JOSH CAVALLO: ONLY OPENLY GAY TOP-FLIGHT MALE FOOTBALLER SAYS FIFA’S ‘ONELOVE’ ARMBAND BAN HAS MA HIM FEEL ‘EXCLUD’
• FIFA CELEBRAT PRI, MONTHS BEFORE HOLDG WORLD CUP WHERE BEG GAY IS ILLEGAL

EA HONORS PRI MONTH BY ANNOUNCG ONE OF THE CROWD MEMBERS FIFA IS GAY

Gay, lbian, bisexual, trans and queer soccer players who are publicly out — now at least 96 total — make over 13% of all the athlet petg the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup Atralia and New Zealand, Outsports has found. Countri like Nigeria and Zambia imprison gay people. Still ’s hearteng to see some women om South Ai, where homosexualy has been legal for 25 years.

— 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. “Ted has a story that will round wh many the gay muny.

JOSH CAVALLO: ONLY OPENLY GAY TOP-FLIGHT MALE FOOTBALLER SAYS FIFA’S ‘ONELOVE’ ARMBAND BAN HAS MA HIM FEEL ‘EXCLUD’

Although now a out and proud homosexual, wasn’t always that way for Ted. ”Longtime fans of the FIFA anchise praised the cisn by EA to clu Ted as the first gay character.

FIFA CELEBRAT PRI, MONTHS BEFORE HOLDG WORLD CUP WHERE BEG GAY IS ILLEGAL

Oh yea that sh’s super gay, ” said our 15-year-old Joey when reached for of prs time, EA says they are addg a Ultimate Team rd that unlocks a sk for Ted that mak him a lbian named Ta for $14. "Navratilova, a trailblazer for gay rights, tweeted a one-word rponse: "Yik... 'FIFA have ma me feel exclud:' Sole gay top flight player hs out on Qatar armband ban.

Josh Cavallo, the only openly gay top-flight male soccer player the sport, has told CNN that FIFA’s cisn to ban players om wearg “OneLove” armbands at the Qatar 2022 has ma him feel “exclud. The Alai Uned midfielr and former Atralian youth ternatnal ma headl last year when he me out as gay.

18 Qatar, where homosexualy is illegal, wh imprisonment of up to three years prison and the possibily of the ath penalty (“Penalti vary Qatar, wh the maximum beg stong to ath. Item: The private publishg partner of The New York Tim, Dar Al Sharq, has repeatedly removed articl the ternatnal prt edn of The New York Tim published Qatar related to lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr rights, Human Rights Watch reports. Item: “Some of the Welsh natnal football team’s staff will not travel to the World Cup Qatar bee of the untry’s stance on gay rights, ” the BBC reported.

“Head of Welsh football Noel Mooney said the team would e the event as a ‘platform’ to discs human rights Qatar, where homosexualy is illegal. Twenty other hotels said they would acmodate them as long as they did not publicly show that they were gay, and 33 hotels had no problem wh bookg same-sex upl.