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PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALLERS OPENLY GAY RELATNSHIP AMID WORLD CUP NTROVERSY

Even relatively tolerant untri like Bra, homophobia is still an issue wh the hypermascule culture of football, where the sual e of gay slurs among fans has only recently e unr wispread scty. Wh this World Cup takg place Rsia — famo both for pervasive homophobic attus society as a whole and for cints of hooliganism and vlence among soccer supporters — fears are multiplied several tim.

”The immediate thought was jt, ‘I’m not gog to be safe that untry, ’” said Ella Barreiro, a gay soccer fan om Atralia.

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“It jt seems like, not jt for gay people, but for women too, a much more opprsive environment, wh the rise of the Orthodox church over there and that sort of stuff. The so-lled gay propaganda law, which passed 2013, crimaliz the distributn of “propaganda” portrayg same-sex relatnships a posive light — a law whose tentnally vague wordg effectively allows thori to apply as they see f.

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