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Contents:

• FIFA PRINT'S QATAR COMMENTS SPARK ONLE CRICISM: 'TODAY I FEEL GAY'
• 'I FEEL GAY, ARAB AND DISABLED': FIFA BOSS INFANTO'S BIZARRE FENCE OF QATAR AHEAD OF WORLD CUP
• FIFA BOSS GIANNI INFANTO SLAMS WORLD CUP CRICS BIZARRE SPEECH: 'I FEEL QATARI, I FEEL ARAB, I FEEL GAY'
• I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN
• ‘I FEEL GAY, DISABLED … LIKE A WOMAN TOO!’: INFANTO MAK BIZARRE ATTACK ON CRICS
• 'I FEEL GAY', FIFA CHIEF ATTEMPTS TO EMPATHISE WH MARGALISED
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY
• FIFA PRINT GIANNI INFANTO SAYS ‘I FEEL QATARI, I FEEL AIN, I FEEL GAY, I FEEL DISABLED’ BIZARRE PRS NFERENCE SPEECH ON EVE OF 2022 WORLD CUP
• FIFA PRINT BLASTS CRICISM OF QATAR WORLD CUP AS ‘HYPOCRISY’: ‘TODAY I FEEL GAY. TODAY I FEEL DISABLED. TODAY I FEEL A MIGRANT WORKER.’
• ‘I FEEL GAY, DISABLED, A WOMAN’: FIFA CHIEF ISSU TIRA AT QATAR WORLD CUP CRICS
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• FIFA PRINT GIANNI INFANTO AT WORLD CUP: ‘TODAY I FEEL GAY, I FEEL DISABLED, I FEEL A MIGRANT WORKER’
• SOCCER-'I FEEL GAY', FIFA CHIEF ATTEMPTS TO EMPATHISE WH MARGALISED
• FIFA'S INFANTO: 'I FEEL QATARI, ARAB AND GAY'

FIFA PRINT'S QATAR COMMENTS SPARK ONLE CRICISM: 'TODAY I FEEL GAY'

Today I feel gay.

'I FEEL GAY, ARAB AND DISABLED': FIFA BOSS INFANTO'S BIZARRE FENCE OF QATAR AHEAD OF WORLD CUP

"Bryan Swanson, FIFA Director of Media Relatns, also told the prs nference: "I am stg here as a gay man Qatar.

"In addn to laws agast homosexualy, Qatar has long been acced of mistreatg migrant workers. How do Qatar cizens ually feel about gay people?

FIFA BOSS GIANNI INFANTO SLAMS WORLD CUP CRICS BIZARRE SPEECH: 'I FEEL QATARI, I FEEL ARAB, I FEEL GAY'

I've had plenty of gay iends, some fay and have heard a lot of negative nnotatns about Qatar thori/cizens lookg down and even havg vlent punishments for people who are homosexual.

The head of FIFA has been cricised for a bizarre speech fendg Qatar ahead of the World Cup, which he said he feels gay, Arab and disabled, among several other inti. Qatar has been slammed for s treatment of gay people and mori, but FIFA chief Gianni Infanto said on Saturday that European people should not judge other add that he unrstood what was like to face discrimatn bee he had red hair and eckl as a of the openg game of the tournament on Sunday, Mr Infanto said: "We have told many, many lsons om some Europeans, om the wtern Italian add: "I thk for what we Europeans have been dog the last 3, 000 years we should be apologisg for next 3, 000 years before startg to give moral lsons to people. "Of urse I am not Qatari, I am not an Arab, I am not Ain, I am not gay, I am not disabled.

I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN

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. ’ speech he gave on the eve of the 2022 men’s World Cup, as he ma reference to that now-famo monologue as he spoke at the lnch of the Women’s World November, amidst wispread news verage qutng the treatment of migrant workers Qatar and and the rights of LGBT people the men’s tournament’s host untry, Infanto had begun a strange and lengthy sermon by sayg: “Today I feel Qatari, today I feel Arab, today I feel Ain, today I feel gay, today I feel disabled, today I feel a migrant worker.

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.

“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.

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

“Jt bee he [Infanto] is not gay, do not mean he do not re. I have a number of gay lleagu. 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...

'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.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY

"I'm stg here a privileged posn on a global stage as a gay man here Qatar.

FIFA PRINT GIANNI INFANTO SAYS ‘I FEEL QATARI, I FEEL AIN, I FEEL GAY, I FEEL DISABLED’ BIZARRE PRS NFERENCE SPEECH ON EVE OF 2022 WORLD CUP

Jt bee Gianni Infanto is not gay, do not mean he do not re. Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St.

“I expected that Infanto would probably try and dodge any qutns about the migrant workers, about the fact ’s illegal to be openly gay here Qatar, but he addrsed that and said, ‘As FIFA print I believe publicly you should be allowed to be gay’, but he did say that if you asked his father, who is no longer wh , he might give you a different answer.

DOHA, Qatar — Gianni Infanto said he feels gay. ”Sce then, ernment misters and senr World Cup anizg staff have dismissed some European cricism as racism, and lls to create a pensatn fund for the fai of migrant workers as a publicy has often been cricized for laws that crimalize homosexualy, lim some eedoms for women and do not offer cizenship to migrants. “How many gay people were prosecuted Europe?

FIFA PRINT BLASTS CRICISM OF QATAR WORLD CUP AS ‘HYPOCRISY’: ‘TODAY I FEEL GAY. TODAY I FEEL DISABLED. TODAY I FEEL A MIGRANT WORKER.’

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Gianni Infanto said he feels gay. Qatar has often been cricized for laws that crimalize homosexualy, lim some eedoms for women and do not offer cizenship to migrants. Kev Maxen, an assistant ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, ma sports history after publicly g out as gay.

‘I FEEL GAY, DISABLED, A WOMAN’: FIFA CHIEF ISSU TIRA AT QATAR WORLD CUP CRICS

Maxen’s disclosure is a historic one, makg him the first openly gay ach of a U. Maxen’s announcement two years after NFL star Carl Nassib beme the league’s first active openly gay player.

“I jt wanted to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay, ” the former Las Vegas Rairs player, 30, revealed a June 2021 Instagram vio.

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.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG 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. Andrew Ahn’s father once told him that there were “no gay people Korea.”Ahn was so aaid of his parents’ reactn if he me out to them that he had a backpack and a iend on standby se he need to leave.

In a culturally nservative muny, where gog to church and buildg a fay were heavily emphasized, Ahn felt his gay inty kept him “om beg able to participate Korean culture.” Then, he started equentg GAMeBoi, a weekly Asian Amerin gay party at Wt Hollywood’s Rage Nightclub. He learned to embrace beg both Korean and gay, so much so that he directed “Fire Island,” a groundbreakg queer Asian Amerin rom- released last year.

Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg to people of lor. But the muny is beg visible — California now has an out Asian Amerin ngrsman and state legislators — and partyg person remas an important way to nnect, even an onle age.“Fdg plac like GAMeBoi, where beg queer and Asian do -exist … It’s not like a 1,000-year-old Korean cultural rual, but I uld create a new rual,” said Ahn, 37.On a recent Friday, hundreds packed QT Nightlife’s monthly K-Pop Night at Micky’s, a Wt Hollywood gay club a block or so east om the old GAMeBoi se.Some posed for selfi a pk Barbie box wh dis balls hangg overhead. “If we get our face out there, then people will start takg a ltle more serly.” (Michael Owen Baker / For The Tim) Even historilly gay neighborhoods like Wt Hollywood or San Francis’s Castro district, Asian Amerins have long been ignored or fetishized, seen as feme and weak.

FIFA PRINT GIANNI INFANTO AT WORLD CUP: ‘TODAY I FEEL GAY, I FEEL DISABLED, I FEEL A MIGRANT WORKER’

In 2019, then-Wt Hollywood Mayor John Duran argued that he did not appropriately touch a member of the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel bee “he’s a skny Korean kid wh pimpl on his cheek.” Asian Amerin advocy groups cricized Duran’s remark, wh API Equaly-LA potg to the long history of discrimatn agast Asian men gay muni such as Wt Hollywood, whose clubs “ed to require three forms of photo intifitn om anyone they perceived as Asian.” Duran eventually rigned om his posn as mayor, cg health reasons, after several other allegatns of sexual harassment.Miss Shu Mai, a Taiwane Amerin drag queen who hosted the K-Pop Night, relled seeg whe actors yellowface — makp that ma them look East Asian L.A.’s drag scene. (Michael Owen Baker / For The Tim) “In a time when there is anti-Asian hate and feels like the whole world is cmblg … what’s more revolutnary polilly than dancg, havg a good time and lovg one another?” said Crisman, a 36-year-old gay Korean Amerin rearcher and artist. On this night, he had brought some female high school iends who wanted to experience the gay clubbg scene.“I am an environment where I feel safe exprsg myself,” he said.Then, he cut the terview short.“Attentn” by NewJeans was playg, and he uldn’t rist spng around, lghg and dancg on the floor.

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

By Nick MulvenneyAL RAYYAN, Qatar (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 add. Today, I feel gay.

FIFA'S INFANTO: 'I FEEL QATARI, ARAB AND GAY'

Homosexualy is illegal the nservative Mlim untry, and some soccer players have raised ncerns for fans travellg to the event, pecially lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) dividuals and women, who rights groups say Qatari laws discrimate World Cup anizers have repeatedly said that everyone, no matter their sexual orientatn or background, is wele durg the Qatar World Cup is the first to be held a Mlim untry wh strict ntrols on alhol, prentg challeng for the anisers of an event sponsored by a beer brand and often associated wh beer-drkg said on Friday (November 18) that alholic beer would not be sold at stadiums, a last-mute reversal that raised qutns among some supporters about Qatar's abily to liver on promis ma to fans.