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• 'TODAY I FEEL GAY, DISABLED, LIKE A MIGRANT WORKER' – GIANNI INFANTO TELLS EUROPE TO STOP WORLD CUP ‘MORAL LSONS’
• FIFA BOSS ATTEMPTS TO EMPATHIZE: ‘I FEEL GAY, I FEEL LIKE A MIGRANT WORKER’
• WORLD CUP: FIFA BOSS ACC WT OF HYPOCRISY, SAYS ‘I FEEL QATARI, I FEEL LIKE A MIGRANT WORKER, I FEEL GAY’
• 'I FEEL GAY', FIFA CHIEF ATTEMPTS TO EMPATHISE WH MARGALISED
• 'I FEEL GAY, I FEEL DISABLED, I FEEL A MIGRANT WORKER' - THE CRAZIT BS OF INFANTO'S RANT D
• ‘I FEEL GAY.’ FIFA BOSS BLASTS HYPOCRISY OF WTERN NATNS STARTLG TIRA
• FIFA PRINT GIANNI INFANTO AT WORLD CUP: ‘TODAY I FEEL GAY, I FEEL DISABLED, I FEEL A MIGRANT WORKER’
• “TODAY, I FEEL GAY. TODAY, I FEEL DISABLED,” SAYS FIFA’S PRINT, WHO IS NEHER
• ‘THEY HAD FOUND OUT THAT I AM GAY, AND THEY WERE GOG TO KILL ME’‘THEY HAD FOUND OUT THAT I AM GAY, AND THEY WERE GOG TO KILL ME’
• ‘TODAY I FEEL QATARI. TODAY I FEEL ARAB. TODAY I FEEL AIN. TODAY I FEEL GAY. TODAY I FEEL A MIGRANT WORKER’ – GIANNI INFANTO HS OUT AT WORLD CUP CRICS
• ‘I FEEL GAY, DISABLED … LIKE A WOMAN TOO!’: INFANTO MAK BIZARRE ATTACK ON CRICS

'TODAY I FEEL GAY, DISABLED, LIKE A MIGRANT WORKER' – GIANNI INFANTO TELLS EUROPE TO STOP WORLD CUP ‘MORAL LSONS’

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.

The Mlim untry of Qatar, host of the 2022 World Cup, has taken cricism for s sharia laws agast homosexualy and s mistreatment of migrant workers. Now, FIFA Print Gianni Infanto is takg cricism for belatedly exprsg sympathy wh gays and downtrodn migrant workers Qatar wh an addrs where he exclaimed that he “feels gay” and “feels like a migrant worker” direct ntraventn to the host of the World Cup’s much-rid polici, Rters reported. He add that he knows he isn’t a Qatari, he isn’t gay, or an Ain, “But I feel like bee I know what means to be discrimated, to be bullied, as a foreigner a foreign untry.

Infanto immediately took cricism — pecially om the gay muny — bee he isn’t gay and uld make such remarks ee om arrt by Qatar for jt that reason.

FIFA BOSS ATTEMPTS TO EMPATHIZE: ‘I FEEL GAY, I FEEL LIKE A MIGRANT WORKER’

But FIFA’s director of media relatns, Bryan Swanson, an out gay man, disagreed wh the cricism. “I’m stg here a privileged posn on a global stage as a gay man here Qatar. “Jt bee Gianni Infanto is not gay do not mean he do not re.

WORLD CUP: FIFA BOSS ACC WT OF HYPOCRISY, SAYS ‘I FEEL QATARI, I FEEL LIKE A MIGRANT WORKER, I FEEL GAY’

And most pecially, sharia law mak homosexualy illegal.

Fifa print Gianni Infanto has clared he feels “gay” and “like a migrant worker” an extraordary outburst aimed at Wtern media givg “moral lsons” over the Qatar World World Cup has received a great al of backlash bee of the Qatari ernment’s treatment of migrant workers and s long history of human rights hostg the tournament has ed a great al of ntroversy bee the nservative Islamic natn outlaws homosexualy between men.

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

“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 [sic]. A 2021 vtigatn by the Guardian found that migrant workers Qatar were equently exploed, and more than 6, 500 workers had died bee of workplace accints, r crash, suicis and aths om other cludg om NewsMr Infanto ntued: “Of urse I am not Qatari, I am not an Arab, I am not Ain, I am not gay, I am not disabled. Jt bee Gianni Infanto is not gay, do not mean he do not re.

”While claimg that gay fans would be wele at the event, Qatari officials have mand that visors “rpect our culture” and have warned people to avoid public displays of affectn. 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, I FEEL DISABLED, I FEEL A MIGRANT WORKER' - THE CRAZIT BS OF INFANTO'S RANT D

"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.

"I'm stg here a privileged posn on a global stage as a gay man here Qatar. AL RAYYAN, Qatar - FIFA Print Gianni Infanto raised eyebrows on Saturday when he attempted to show empathy wh margalized 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.

‘I FEEL GAY.’ FIFA BOSS BLASTS HYPOCRISY OF WTERN NATNS STARTLG TIRA

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. “Of urse I am not Qatari, I am not an Arab, I am not Ain, I am not gay, I am not disabled.

”) 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? ”Estuardo Cifuent is a gay man om Guatemala who was granted entry to the U.

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

Fernando, 37, who asked that his full name not be ed, was a driver at a sugar factory Guatemala, where he’d endured a lifetime of anti-gay slurs, discrimatn at work, and random beatgs. He said a passerby might ci on impulse to punch him the face for beg gay, which happened 10 or 15 tim, he timat.

” – Gay man, Viet Nam The study also reveals that, of the migrant workers terviewed, 41 per cent reported pg om vlence, discrimatn, or rtrictns on personal eedom at home as a motivatn; and 59 per cent reported that their qualy of life was higher their untry of statn than their untry of orig. ” – Trans woman, the Philipp While acronyms such as LGBTIQ are often ed generilly, people wh diverse SOGIE are not homogeno. Gay men and lbian women migrant workers may have different motivatns and experienc om those of trans men and trans women and people wh non-bary genr inti, and different to people wh other diversy of genr and sexualy.

“TODAY, I FEEL GAY. TODAY, I FEEL DISABLED,” SAYS FIFA’S PRINT, WHO IS NEHER

The study illtrat that workplace discrimatn untri of orig was ced as a motivatn for migrant work more often by transgenr and genr diverse people (85 per cent), as was muny discrimatn (52 per cent); gay and lbian people (26 per cent and 22 per cent) reported fewer stanc of muny-level discrimatn.

‘THEY HAD FOUND OUT THAT I AM GAY, AND THEY WERE GOG TO KILL ME’‘THEY HAD FOUND OUT THAT I AM GAY, AND THEY WERE GOG TO KILL ME’

ActivismMarch 27, 2019‘They Had Found Out That I Am Gay, and They Were Gog to Kill Me’The Nigerian asylee nng New York Cy’s only homels shelter for refuge. Growg up Nigeria as a gay man, Okporo knows the celty of those who e their power to harm others—he fled his home their after he was beaten and robbed by a mob. After our terview, Edafe went back to the puter, this time to show me some exampl of the Nigerian gay-ballroom scene, tellg me about the HIV ttg parti he would throw.

But there was also a high rate of HIV transmissn om mother to child, so when I left there and moved to Abuja, I disvered that my iends who were gay were also dyg om HIV. So HIV beme a big part of my life, advotg for gay men to have accs to treatment. And crimaliz activism by gay men by 10 years prison.

Any form, kd, or shape, that shows that you are gay, you are basilly ad by the law. Now, nobody has ever faced prosecutn om the laws yet, but non-state actors, like muny members, practice jungle jtice, whereby they take law to their hands and persecute gay men and say they are workg on behalf of the ernment to jail the gays and cleanse the gays om the muny. This is like a way of makg money om gay men, by blackmailg them.

‘TODAY I FEEL QATARI. TODAY I FEEL ARAB. TODAY I FEEL AIN. TODAY I FEEL GAY. TODAY I FEEL A MIGRANT WORKER’ – GIANNI INFANTO HS OUT AT WORLD CUP CRICS

The first w we had is that, 2014, we worked wh the AIDS missn Abuja for the ernment to pass a bill that would enable gay men to have accs to health-re servic, but they would not be lled gay men, they would ll them MSM, Men who have Sexual ntact wh Men. They had found out that I am gay, and they were gog to kill me. You see this sr on my head [he touch his fger to his hairle], this sr on my hand [he touch his fger to his right forearm, jt below the elbow]; when I woke up the clic, I found the srs, bee they were beatg me wh sticks, and they were clappg and sgg that I’m gay.

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

I uldn’t seek asylum there, bee they don’t have the law that allows you to seek asylum—and as a gay man, is even worse Dubai, so I stayed for some days, and then I me back to Nigeria. But October of 2016, I won an award for beg a gay man advotg for gay men to have accs to AIDS-re treatments. When I land at JFK airport… I don’t have any iends this untry, I don’t know anybody here… So I took my bag and I went to an immigratn officer, JFK, Termal 4, and I say, “My life is danger my untry, bee they attack me bee I’m gay, and I’m a gay-rights activist my untry, and I don’t have anywhere to go.