‘Nobody feels unsafe here’: gay footballer Josh Cavallo told he is wele at Qatar World Cup | World Cup 2022 | The Guardian

Contents:

• FIFA CELEBRAT PRI, MONTHS BEFORE HOLDG WORLD CUP WHERE BEG GAY IS ILLEGAL
• 'I FEEL GAY', FIFA CHIEF ATTEMPTS TO EMPATHISE WH MARGALISED
• IGOR BENEVENUTO BE FIRST FIFA-RANKED REFEREE TO E OUT AS GAY
• WORLD CUP 2022, GAY ATHLET AND LGBTQ CLN
• EA HONORS PRI MONTH BY ANNOUNCG ONE OF THE CROWD MEMBERS FIFA IS GAY
• A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
• 'GO GAYS!': WHY USA'S LGBTQ WORLD CUP STARS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER
• JOSH CAVALLO: ONLY OPENLY GAY TOP-FLIGHT MALE FOOTBALLER SAYS FIFA’S ‘ONELOVE’ ARMBAND BAN HAS MA HIM FEEL ‘EXCLUD’
• ‘I FEEL GAY, DISABLED … LIKE A WOMAN TOO!’: INFANTO MAK BIZARRE ATTACK ON CRICS
• ‘NOBODY FEELS UNSAFE HERE’: GAY FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO TOLD HE IS WELE AT QATAR WORLD CUP
• GAY FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO SAYS HE WOULD BE ‘SRED’ TO PLAY AT THE 2022 WORLD CUP QATAR

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

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.

AL RAYYAN, Qatar, Nov 19 (Rters) - FIFA Print Gianni Infanto raised eyebrows on Saturday when he attempted to show empathy wh margalised groups by tellg reporters Qatar 'I feel gay... Today I feel gay.

'I FEEL GAY', FIFA CHIEF ATTEMPTS TO EMPATHISE WH MARGALISED

"Of urse, I am not Qatari, I am not an Arab, I am not Ain, I am not gay, I am not disabled, " he later Football - FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 - FIFA Print Prs Conference - Ma Media Center, Doha, Qatar - November 19, 2022 FIFA print Gianni Infanto durg a prs nference REUTERS/Matthew Childs"But I feel like , bee I know what means to be discrimated, to be bullied, as a foreigner a foreign untry. "Judgg by social media, your ments that you feel gay has ed some surprise to many the gay muny, " one journalist later noted before askg Infanto a qutn. "Bee, they are sayg, that if you really were gay you would not be able to say that bee you would be admtg to effectively illegaly.

"I'm stg here a privileged posn on a global stage as a gay man here Qatar. Jt bee Gianni Infanto is not gay, do not mean he do not re. Qatar FIFA World Cup ambassador and former footballer Khalid Salman has said homosexualy is “damage the md, ” an terview wh German broadster ZDF on Monday.

Durg the terview, Salman was discsg the issue of homosexualy beg illegal Qatar. Salman told ZDF that beg gay was “haram, ” meang forbidn acrdg to Islamic law.

IGOR BENEVENUTO BE FIRST FIFA-RANKED REFEREE TO E OUT AS GAY

As many people are expected to travel to Qatar for the World Cup, “let’s talk about gays, ” Salman said. 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 vtigatg Mexi anti-gay chant before team was booted om the World Cup.

Mexi gave up the elimatg goal jt sends after their fans chanted the gay slur yet aga. This gay Brish sports mister stood up to Qatar and FIFA and wore rabows at the World Cup. Iran murrs men for beg gay and kills women who step out of le.

WORLD CUP 2022, GAY ATHLET AND LGBTQ CLN

This gay Qatari started an LGBTQ soccer fan group to expose abe his home untry. Qatar don’t hate rabow lors, hat gay people.

There are 0 out gay players at the men’s World Cup. The Outsports gay-iendly World Cup rankgs of all 32 teams. Qatar’s World Cup ambassador says homosexualy is ‘damage the md’.

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

Official tells gay fans to tone down Qatar.

FIFA celebrat Pri, months before holdg World Cup where beg gay is illegal. FIFA is all rabows this month, but the fall s premier event is Qatar, where homosexualy is agast the law.

A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

— 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. 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.

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. It will be a glor month to be a gay fan. Last time at the 2019 Women’s World Cup, the Netherlands lay claim to the honor of beg the team wh the most out LGBTQ players, but this year Atralia boasts 10 out players and overtak them for the tle of Gayt Team 2k23.

'GO GAYS!': WHY USA'S LGBTQ WORLD CUP STARS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER

Ireland’s historic entry to the tournament marks another triumph for out midfielr Sead Farrelly, whose natnal team but and 2023 return to the NWSL e more than six years after retirg om soccer the wake of systemic homophobic and sexual abe wh the league, which the Athletic first reported on 2021. In November the 2022 FIFA Men’s World Cup opens Qatar, a untry that reprs the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people and punish same-sex relatns wh up to seven years prison.

It found that only 33 did not object to bookg same-sex upl, while 20 others said that “they would acmodate same-sex upl as long as they did not publicly show that they were gay. “Go gays!

“You n’t w a champnship whout gays on your team - ’s never been done before, ever.

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

But for me, to be gay and fabulo, durg Pri month at the World Cup, is nice.

Teammat Tierna Davidson, Adrianna Franch, Ashlyn Harris, and Ali Krieger are all out as gay or bisexual, as are dozens of players on other teams. Durg the 2018 tournament, two fans were btally beaten an anti-gay attack and at least one gay rights activist was arrted for prottg outsi the Kreml. In Qatar, homosexualy is illegal and punishable by up to seven years prison.

Unrstandably, may be hard for players to feel as though the anizatn tly has their 2015, Robbie Rogers, the first active Major League Soccer player to e out as gay, wrote an op-ed for USA Today nouncg FIFA’s cisn to embrace LGBTQ-hostile untri like Rsia and Qatar. “If actns speak lour than words, then the msage FIFA sends to gay athlet is pafully clear, ” wrote Rogers.

‘I FEEL GAY, DISABLED … LIKE A WOMAN TOO!’: INFANTO MAK BIZARRE ATTACK ON CRICS

So for any gay soccer player who has hop of playg for the U. 'FIFA have ma me feel exclud:' Sole gay top flight player hs out on Qatar armband ban.

‘NOBODY FEELS UNSAFE HERE’: GAY FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO TOLD HE IS WELE AT QATAR WORLD CUP

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.

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GAY FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO SAYS HE WOULD BE ‘SRED’ TO PLAY AT THE 2022 WORLD CUP QATAR

“It don’t matter if you’re lbian, if you’re gay, ’s for everyone.

Homosexualy Qatar is illegal and punishable by up to three years prison. But there have been mixed msag wh a World Cup ambassador and former footballer Khalid Salman sayg earlier this month that homosexualy was “damage the md, ” an terview wh German broadster ZDF.

He is a regular at England ternatnals and was once the victim of a homophobic asslt, he says, at Wembley four years ago, ahead of England’s match agast Spa 2018, when he had an altertn wh another fan. Photograph: Caspar BensonInfanto also played down ncerns over whether LGBTQ+ fans faced danger a untry where gay people risk torture and imprisonment, and sisted that Qatar – wh Fifa’s help – had reformed workers’ rights beyond all speech began, though, wh Infanto appearg to suggt that his own experienc as a son of Italian immigrants Swzerland gave him a ep unrstandg of migrant workers and other mori Qatar. ”He add: “Of urse I am not Qatari, I am not an Arab, I am not Ain, I am not gay, I am not disabled.