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Contents:
- FIFA PRINT GIANNI INFANTO AT WORLD CUP: ‘TODAY I FEEL GAY, I FEEL DISABLED, I FEEL A MIGRANT WORKER’
- GAY FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO SAYS HE WOULD BE ‘SRED’ TO PLAY AT THE 2022 WORLD CUP QATAR
- “TODAY, I FEEL GAY. TODAY, I FEEL DISABLED,” SAYS FIFA’S PRINT, WHO IS NEHER
- 'I FEEL GAY', FIFA CHIEF ATTEMPTS TO EMPATHISE WH MARGALISED
- A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
- ‘I FEEL GAY, DISABLED … LIKE A WOMAN TOO!’: INFANTO MAK BIZARRE ATTACK ON CRICS
- FIFA BOSS BRAND 'NUMPTY' FOR PARG HIS GGER HAIR TO BEG GAY QATAR
- 'TODAY I FEEL GAY, DISABLED, LIKE A MIGRANT WORKER' – GIANNI INFANTO TELLS EUROPE TO STOP WORLD CUP ‘MORAL LSONS’
- FIFA PRINT SAYS HE FEELS ‘GAY AND DISABLED’ ATTACK ON QATAR WORLD CUP CRICS
- FIFA PRINT BLASTS CRICISM OF QATAR WORLD CUP AS ‘HYPOCRISY’: ‘TODAY I FEEL GAY. TODAY I FEEL DISABLED. TODAY I FEEL A MIGRANT WORKER.’
- 11 U.S. PRINTS WHO MIGHT’VE BEEN GAY
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
FIFA PRINT GIANNI INFANTO AT WORLD CUP: ‘TODAY I FEEL GAY, I FEEL DISABLED, I FEEL A MIGRANT WORKER’
After beg the only current, openly gay player men’s top-flight football last month, Josh Cavallo says a new terview wh the Guardian that he would be “sred” to play at the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar bee of the untry’s homosexualy laws. * president of fifa gay *
Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Readg the Game newsletter sent straight to your box for eeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s ee weekly newsletter Fifa print Gianni Infanto claimed “today I feel gay” as he sld Wtern media for givg “moral lsons” about the ntroversial Qatar World a bizarre hour-long monologue, Infanto lashed out at the World Cup’s crics for hypocrisy, claimed “nobody r” about disabled people, and pared his own childhood experience of beg bullied to the sufferg of workers and others at the hands of the Qatari has been wily cricised for explog untold thoands of migrant workers, mostly lured om impoverished parts of south Asia, to build the stadiums and astcture to host the World Cup. In addn, Qatar’s suabily to host the tournament has been qutned bee the nservative Islamic natn outlaws homosexualy between men and LGBT+ fan groups have warned they would not feel safe the of the openg game of the tournament on Sunday, Infanto – who was re-elected this week as print of football’s erng body unopposed – ma an extraordary attack on those cricisms, doublg down on Fifa’s choice of Qatar as World Cup hosts.
GAY FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO SAYS HE WOULD BE ‘SRED’ TO PLAY AT THE 2022 WORLD CUP QATAR
FIFA Print Gianni Infanto raised eyebrows on Saturday when he attempted to show empathy wh margalised groups by tellg reporters Qatar 'I feel gay ... I feel like a migrant worker'. * president of fifa gay *
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After beg the only current, openly gay player men’s top-flight football last month, Josh Cavallo says a new terview wh the Guardian that he would be “sred” to play at the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar bee of the untry’s homosexualy laws. Cavallo, who plays for Alai Uned Atralia’s A-League, received wispread support om the football muny and beyond when he announced on social media that he is gay, cludg om Barcelona fenr Gerard Piqué, Atléti Madrid forward Antoe Griezmann and Liverpool midfielr Jordan Henrson.
“TODAY, I FEEL GAY. TODAY, I FEEL DISABLED,” SAYS FIFA’S PRINT, WHO IS NEHER
A rerd number of out LGBTQ players make this year’s tournament a feast for gay fans. * president of fifa gay *
The 21-year-old has now voiced his ncerns about next year’s World Cup Qatar, where homosexualy is illegal and punishable by up to three years prison.
“I read somethg along the l of giv a ath penalty for gay people Qatar. He add: “One of the greatt achievements as a profsnal footballer is to play for your untry and to know that [the World Cup] is a untry that don’t support gay people and puts at risk of our own life, that do sre me and that do me make re-evaluate. Acrdg to a report to state-sponsored homophobia by Lus Ramón Mendos of the human rights group ILGA World, Qatar “ns Sharia urts, where technilly is possible that Mlim men uld be put to ath for same-sex sexual behavurs.
'I FEEL GAY', FIFA CHIEF ATTEMPTS TO EMPATHISE WH MARGALISED
FIFA print Gianni Infanto had said he 'feels gay' a bewilrg speech about Qatar World Cup crics. * president of fifa gay *
“Not havg anyone to look up to and to see okay, they’re playg football and they’re gay and they’re havg a succsful reer – that is somethg that sred me and somethg that I was worried that if I was to potentially e out one day, would affect my reer a bad way? ”) Earlier this month, Infanto wrote a letter to the 32 natnal feratns participatg at the World Cup, askg them to “foc on the football, ” rather than get bogged down cricism of a untry that prohibs homosexualy. Today, I feel 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 ntued.
Is that really the same thg as beg a worker whose passport was nfisted so they uldn’t leave their job, or livg fear of your life bee you’re gay a untry that ref to regnize you exist?
A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
Do the evince prented here suggt the possibily of the existence of gay U.S. prints? Let's fd out if the mors are te, * president of fifa gay *
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... "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.
‘I FEEL GAY, DISABLED … LIKE A WOMAN TOO!’: INFANTO MAK BIZARRE ATTACK ON CRICS
"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.
FIFA BOSS BRAND 'NUMPTY' FOR PARG HIS GGER HAIR TO BEG GAY QATAR
Jt bee Gianni Infanto is not gay, do not mean he do not re. It will be a glor month to be a gay fan.
'TODAY I FEEL GAY, DISABLED, LIKE A MIGRANT WORKER' – GIANNI INFANTO TELLS EUROPE TO STOP WORLD CUP ‘MORAL LSONS’
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. Captas, cludg England skipper Millie Bright, have been banned - jt like the men Qatar - om beg allowed to wear "One Love" multiloured armbands featurg a would have obliquely referenced LGBTQ+ rights wh so many players out as gay at the tournament, cludg Atralia pta Sam Kerr, who said: "Obvly, we would have liked to have worn , but I'm not gog to put this team at risk.
FIFA PRINT SAYS HE FEELS ‘GAY AND DISABLED’ ATTACK ON QATAR WORLD CUP CRICS
Perhaps FIFA was unwillg to ve aga havg dropped Vis Sdi as a tournament sponsor unr prsure om Atralia and New Zealand, as well as the players, over the kgdom's anti-gay lobbyg ma clear the players won't be silenced on a platform they were nied for so long. Full verage tails; Latt newsFifa print Gianni Infanto says he only wants to talk about posive thgs durg the Women's World Cup when asked about issu such as genr pay November, Infanto said: "Today I feel Qatari, I feel Arab, I feel Ain, I feel gay, I feel disabled, I feel a migrant worker.
"Aujourd'hui, je me sens qatari, arabe, ai, gay, homosexuel, handipé, travaillr migrant", ava-il lancé à Doha dans un disurs très menté.
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.
FIFA PRINT BLASTS CRICISM OF QATAR WORLD CUP AS ‘HYPOCRISY’: ‘TODAY I FEEL GAY. TODAY I FEEL DISABLED. TODAY I FEEL A MIGRANT WORKER.’
”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. “You want to stay at home and say how bad they are, the Arabs, the Mlims, bee ’s not allowed to be publicly gay. Swanson, a former Sky Sports reporter, said: “I am stg here as a gay man Qatar.
11 U.S. PRINTS WHO MIGHT’VE BEEN GAY
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Addrsg ntroversy over the hostg of the World Cup on the eve of kickg off, the boss of footie’s ternatnal erng body pared his childhood bullyg for havg gger hair wh the sufferg of migrant workers and the LGBTQ+ muny the Arab kgdom, where homosexualy is banned. Today I feel Qatari, I feel Arab, I feel Ain, I feel gay, I feel disabled, I feel a migrant worker.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
" “Of urse I am not Qatari, Arab, Ain, gay, disabled or a migrant worker.