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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.

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

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.

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

"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.

WORLD CUP 2022, GAY ATHLET AND LGBTQ CLN

Durg the terview, Salman was discsg the issue of homosexualy beg illegal Qatar.

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

Salman told ZDF that beg gay was “haram, ” meang forbidn acrdg to Islamic law.

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.

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

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. This gay Qatari started an LGBTQ soccer fan group to expose abe his home untry.

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

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’.

Official tells gay fans to tone down Qatar.

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. FIFA is all rabows this month, but the fall s premier event is Qatar, where homosexualy is agast the law.

— 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.

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

“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.

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

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.

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

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. 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!