A rerd number of out LGBTQ players make this year’s tournament a feast for gay fans.
Contents:
- A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
- A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL 61 OUT GAY PLAYERS THE WOMEN’S FOOTBALL PREMIER LEAGUE
- 'GO GAYS!': WHY USA'S LGBTQ WORLD CUP STARS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER
- IN FOC: WHY ARE GAY WOMEN OVER-REPRENTED FOOTBALL?
A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
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It will be a glor month to be a gay fan. Last time at the 2019 Women’s World Cup, the Netherlands lay claim to the honor of beg the team wh the most out LGBTQ players, but this year Atralia boasts 10 out players and overtak them for the tle of Gayt Team 2k23. Ireland’s historic entry to the tournament marks another triumph for out midfielr Sead Farrelly, whose natnal team but and 2023 return to the NWSL e more than six years after retirg om soccer the wake of systemic homophobic and sexual abe wh the league, which the Athletic first reported on 2021.
Gay, lbian, bisexual, trans and queer soccer players who are publicly out — now at least 96 total — make over 13% of all the athlet petg the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup Atralia and New Zealand, Outsports has found. Countri like Nigeria and Zambia imprison gay people.
A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL 61 OUT GAY PLAYERS THE WOMEN’S FOOTBALL PREMIER LEAGUE
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“Go gays. You n’t w a champnship whout gays on your team! Seven years earlier, July 2012, Rapoe told Out Magaze: “For the rerd: I am gay, ” which felt like a landmark moment — a seismic shift the landspe of Amerin women’s soccer.
'GO GAYS!': WHY USA'S LGBTQ WORLD CUP STARS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER
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IN FOC: WHY ARE GAY WOMEN OVER-REPRENTED FOOTBALL?
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“If (fans) uld have gotten to know Brianna Scurry, like, has two black labs, would people have wanted to know me better, knowg I was gay? ) “If you jt live a normal life and you happen to be gay or lbian, then people know that about you, ” says Moros. ”“I didn’t know to know Tierna (Davidson) was gay until relatively recently, ” says Moros.