Gay football referee thks LGBTQ+ players are mon

Contents:

• HOW ONE OF BRAZIL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SOCCER REFERE CHANGED THE GAME
• YOUNG SOCCER REFEREE HAS THRIVED ALL THE WHILE BEG OPENLY GAY
• GAY PRO SOCCER REFEREE CLAIMS OVER 30% OF MALE SOCCER PLAYERS ARE GAY OR BI. IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?
• THIS GAY MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER REFEREE IS G OUT TO EASE HIS MD
• PRI ON THE PCH: DO SOCCER HAVE A GAY PROBLEM?
• GAY SPANISH SOCCER REFEREE QUS AFTER ABE AT GAM
• MLS ASSISTANT REFEREE MATTHEW NELSON REVEALS HE IS GAY TO "HELP OTHERS"
• BRAZILIAN SOCCER REFEREE SAYS HE IS GAY, HOP TO INSPIRE OTHERS
• BRAZILIAN SOCCER REF SAYS HE IS GAY, HOP TO SPIRE OTHERS
• GAY FOOTBALL REFEREE THKS ’40 PER CENT’ OF PLAYERS AND OFFICIALS ULD BE LGBTQ+
• FIFA REFEREE IGOR BENEVENUTO OUT AS GAY MONTHS BEFORE THE WORLD CUP

HOW ONE OF BRAZIL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SOCCER REFERE CHANGED THE GAME

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.

YOUNG SOCCER REFEREE HAS THRIVED ALL THE WHILE BEG OPENLY GAY

“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.

GAY PRO SOCCER REFEREE CLAIMS OVER 30% OF MALE SOCCER PLAYERS ARE GAY OR BI. IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?

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.

THIS GAY MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER REFEREE IS G OUT TO EASE HIS MD

For refere and assistants like Sérg Cenezi or gay soccer leagu like LiGay, that’s what Je reprented the 1980s. Soccer Feratn official for 11 years, love sports and am openly gay. Beg gay and passnate about sports is somethg that was new to me, but I am here to ntue breakg stereotyp.

While I am proud to ll myself a Hoosier, I grew up around many who didn’t believe was OK to be gay.

PRI ON THE PCH: DO SOCCER HAVE A GAY PROBLEM?

I jt thought was normal, but I didn’t realize until later my youth that I was gay.

The profsnal soccer referee Brazil who recently me out publicly as gay is now claimg that 30% to 40% of profsnal soccer players are gay or bisexual.

GAY SPANISH SOCCER REFEREE QUS AFTER ABE AT GAM

“Thirty to forty percent of them are homosexual or bisexual, or have done somethg at one time wh another man, ” Benevenuto is reported to have said. “You would be surprised at jt who is homosexual this dtry.

MLS ASSISTANT REFEREE MATTHEW NELSON REVEALS HE IS GAY TO "HELP OTHERS"

He’s certaly right about one thg: I’d be pretty shocked if a third of profsnal soccer players were gay or bisexual. In talkg wh women profsnal sports, the number of gay and bi women pro sports is very high.

BRAZILIAN SOCCER REFEREE SAYS HE IS GAY, HOP TO INSPIRE OTHERS

Yet the ia that a third of profsnal athlet men’s soccer are gay or bi fi all logic. A 2019 survey of men Brazil found that only about 2% of rponnts said they were gay or bi, wh about 95% sayg they are heterosexual (the rt eher didn’t know how to rpond or want to rpond).

BRAZILIAN SOCCER REF SAYS HE IS GAY, HOP TO SPIRE OTHERS

The ia that 2% of Brazilian men intify as gay or bi — but 30% to 40% of the natn’s male pro soccer players are — is ankly impossible. The culture surroundg men’s sports is macho and at tim homophobic — hardly a place you’d expect gay and bi men to flock to. Still, ’s impossible to believe that a third or male pro soccer players are gay or bi.

GAY FOOTBALL REFEREE THKS ’40 PER CENT’ OF PLAYERS AND OFFICIALS ULD BE LGBTQ+

We’ve seen wild claims before that have never panned out, cludg one guy who said he knew 20 gay profsnal soccer players. When I talk to people about Provcetown the summer — cludg people who’ve been there once or twice — and I ask them how gay is, the rponse is often somethg like “Oh ’s 90% gay” or “jt about everyone there is gay.

FIFA REFEREE IGOR BENEVENUTO OUT AS GAY MONTHS BEFORE THE WORLD CUP

But when you’re ed to your lol town or cy beg 3-5% gay, sudnly a third feels like “everybody’s gay!

(By the way, if you’re lookg for that, the Fire Island P is actually 90% gay men.