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Contents:
- “TODAY, I FEEL GAY. TODAY, I FEEL DISABLED,” SAYS FIFA’S PRINT, WHO IS NEHER
- FIFA PRINT'S QATAR COMMENTS SPARK ONLE CRICISM: 'TODAY I FEEL GAY'
- FIFA PRINT GIANNI INFANTO AT WORLD CUP: ‘TODAY I FEEL GAY, I FEEL DISABLED, I FEEL A MIGRANT WORKER’
- I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN
- ‘I FEEL GAY, DISABLED … LIKE A WOMAN TOO!’: INFANTO MAK BIZARRE ATTACK ON CRICS
“TODAY, I FEEL GAY. TODAY, I FEEL DISABLED,” SAYS FIFA’S PRINT, WHO IS NEHER
”) 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? Today I feel gay.
FIFA PRINT'S QATAR COMMENTS SPARK ONLE CRICISM: 'TODAY I FEEL GAY'
"Bryan Swanson, FIFA Director of Media Relatns, also told the prs nference: "I am stg here as a gay man Qatar.
"In addn to laws agast homosexualy, Qatar has long been acced of mistreatg migrant workers. 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.
FIFA PRINT GIANNI INFANTO AT WORLD CUP: ‘TODAY I FEEL GAY, I FEEL DISABLED, I FEEL A MIGRANT WORKER’
Photograph: Caspar BensonInfanto also played down ncerns over whether LGBTQ+ fans faced danger a untry where gay people risk torture and imprisonment, and sisted that Qatar – wh Fifa’s help – had reformed workers’ rights beyond all speech began, though, wh Infanto appearg to suggt that his own experienc as a son of Italian immigrants Swzerland gave him a ep unrstandg of migrant workers and other mori Qatar. ”He add: “Of urse I am not Qatari, I am not an Arab, I am not Ain, I am not gay, I am not disabled. “You want to stay at home and say how bad they are, the Arabs, the Mlims, bee ’s not allowed to be publicly gay.
Swanson, a former Sky Sports reporter, said: “I am stg here as a gay man Qatar. “Jt bee he [Infanto] is not gay, do not mean he do not re. I have a number of gay lleagu.