Gay girl’s gui to the 2023 Women’s World Cup - Outsports

Contents:

• THERE ARE 0 OUT GAY PLAYERS AT THE MEN’S WORLD CUP. THERE WERE 40 WOMEN 2019
• GAY & LBIANS IN SOCCER
• WORLD CUP 2022, GAY ATHLET AND LGBTQ CLN
• A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
• HERE ARE EIGHT OUT AND PROUD MALE GAY FOOTBALLERS
• A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL 40 OUT GAY PLAYERS THE NWSL

THERE ARE 0 OUT GAY PLAYERS AT THE MEN’S WORLD CUP. THERE WERE 40 WOMEN 2019

Gay rights are takg center stage at this year’s men’s World Cup, thanks to the host untry’s diabolil treatment of LGBTQ people. But the strongt statement agast the Qatari’s medieval stance on LGBTQ rights would be an out gay player participatg the tournament.

GAY & LBIANS IN SOCCER

Dorn says there are multiple possible explanatns for the arth of gay players the men’s World Cup, rangg om soccer culture to the lotn of the event self. There are a growg number of out pro male soccer players: Sttish player Zanr Murray and English player Jake Daniels me out as gay earlier this year.

This outdated mentaly fails to regnize the wdfall that awas out gay and bi athlet male sports. Police harass and abe gay people, and homosexualy is illegal. Those who are ught engagg homosexual acts n be jailed, and Mlims n be executed.

Qatar’s World Cup ambassador recently lled homosexualy “damage the md. “If I had an out gay ach 20 years ago, I would’ve e out 20 years ago, ” said Dorn. It is a long sought victory for gay rights.

WORLD CUP 2022, GAY ATHLET AND LGBTQ CLN

This cisn is the end rult of s of effort and gay rights activism.

While the world gradually accepts non-heterosexuals as star players the world of sports, all to often gay and lbian soccer players and ach keep a low profile.

Attus about gay and lbian people have shifted dramatilly over the last . Support for same-sex marriage has steadily creased and more than 6--10 Amerins now report they have a close iend or fay member who is gay or lbian. Millennials, who have nsistently monstrated strong support for gay marriage, are growg size and fluence— 2015 they will surpass Baby Boomers as the largt sgle generatn.

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

Their views on gay marriage and other hotly ntted social qutns may soon serve as the flt cultural norm. Yet, spe the creasg acceptance of gays and lbians the U. S., openly gay profsnal athlet are still somethg of an anomaly—the NFL was whout a sgle openly gay player until the draftg of Michael Sam 2014.

There are three possible reasons why profsnal sports have so few gay and lbian athlet. First, there may simply be a arth of gay and lbian athlet wh the realm of profsnal sports.

HERE ARE EIGHT OUT AND PROUD MALE GAY FOOTBALLERS

This optn seems unlikely, however, as gay and lbians would have to exceedgly unrreprented for the numbers to add up.

5 percent of the public is gay or lbian. This would translate to as many as 60 gay football players currently the NFL alone. A send reason might be that sports fans are simply not ready to cheer for gay and lbian athlet, disuragg such athlet om g forward.

A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL 40 OUT GAY PLAYERS THE NWSL

The PRRI/RNS Survey found that most Amerins (73 percent) support profsnal teams signg gay and lbian athlet.

Even among diehard football fans support for signg gay athlet remas robt: roughly three-quarters (72 percent) of football fans say they would support their favore team signg an openly gay player. After g out, Robbie Rogers, an openly gay MLS player, said he more often heard words of enuragement and support om fans than jeers or tnts.

But the LA Galaxy player was highly cril of FIFA, ternatnal soccer’s erng body, for selectg Rsia and Qatar, untri wh strict anti-gay laws, to host the next two world Cup tournaments.