A judge Istanbul did not appreciate the Turkish football feratn firg a referee 2009 bee he was gay.
Contents:
- HOW ONE OF BRAZIL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SOCCER REFERE CHANGED THE GAME
- JUDGE GIV TURKISH FOOTBALL FERATN A YELLOW RD, F THEM FOR FIRG GAY REFEREE
- ‘I NSIRED CHEMIL STRATN,’ SAYS GAY GBY REFEREE NIGEL OWENS
- JUDGE GIV TURKISH FOOTBALL FERATN A YELLOW RD, F THEM FOR FIRG GAY REFEREE
HOW ONE OF BRAZIL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SOCCER REFERE CHANGED THE GAME
A judge Istanbul did not appreciate the Turkish football feratn firg a referee 2009 bee he was gay. * gay referee yellow card *
Gay civil rights activist Luiz Mott found one of Brazil’s first gay rights anizatns, Gpo Gay da Bahia. Acrdg to Gpo Gay da Bahia, roughly “3, 100 homosexuals” were killed om hate-motivated crim between 1980 and 2009, and the rate of vlence agast gay Brazilians is creasg. Je, along wh Válter Senra, who went by the nickname “the Bian, ” Plo Rodrigu da Silva, and Sérg Cenezi, were the few openly gay Brazilian refere facg such scty 1980s.
Acrdg to Plar, the print of the Brazilian Football Conferatn (CBF) at the time, João Ellis Filho, stated that no homosexual referee would manage the Copa União petn. The homophobic cints happened que often, but they didn’t phase Je.
“When Margarida me on televisn to intify himself as a mp gay [man], we supported his visibily, ” says Luiz Mott. Ironilly, his me, Armando Marqu, mted durg his tenure at CBF to riddg the anizatn of gay refere—or those, like Clés, who were assumed to be gay.
JUDGE GIV TURKISH FOOTBALL FERATN A YELLOW RD, F THEM FOR FIRG GAY REFEREE
Openly gay gby referee Nigel Owens might never have achieved his inic stat if he’d had gone ahead wh plans for a chemil stratn. * gay referee yellow card *
Almost 20 years later, was big news the soccer world when FIFA-ranked Brazilian referee Igor Benevenuto me out publicly as gay the months before the 2022 World Cup Qatar, where gay sex is illegal. For refere and assistants like Sérg Cenezi or gay soccer leagu like LiGay, that’s what Je reprented the 1980s. Halil Ibrahim Dcdag was a soccer referee Turkey until he was intified as gay 2009.
The feratn had claimed that Dcdag was fired for his performance, and also bee the ary had emed him unf to serve bee he is gay. Rugby referee Nigel Owens is one of the most proment gay men sport. As an openly gay figure one of the most mascule of sports Nigel Owens is a rary – but he might never have achieved his inic stat gby unn if he had gone ahead wh plans for a chemil stratn.
‘I NSIRED CHEMIL STRATN,’ SAYS GAY GBY REFEREE NIGEL OWENS
“I didn’t want to be gay, ” Owens, who me out 2007, told CNN. “I actually went to the doctor at one stage to see if I uld be chemilly strated any way, if would get rid of me beg gay. They n’t tell other people they’re gay bee they’re fightg themselv.
However, he believ the mcular world of gby unn is way ahead of other global sports when to acceptg gay stars, although Gareth Thomas beme the first profsnal player to open up about his sexualy as recently as 2009.
JUDGE GIV TURKISH FOOTBALL FERATN A YELLOW RD, F THEM FOR FIRG GAY REFEREE
“It annoys me sometim when people say gby is homophobic.