Igor Benevenuto says we would be ‘surprised’ by the gay men soccer. Y, 30-40% would be a surprise.
Contents:
- HOW ONE OF BRAZIL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SOCCER REFERE CHANGED THE GAME
- GAY PRO SOCCER REFEREE CLAIMS OVER 30% OF MALE SOCCER PLAYERS ARE GAY OR BI. IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?
- GAY SOCCER PLAYER’S TEAM RPONDS TO HOMOPHOBIC SLUR BY TROUNCG OPPONENTS
HOW ONE OF BRAZIL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SOCCER REFERE CHANGED THE GAME
* gay soccer ref funny *
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. “When Margarida me on televisn to intify himself as a mp gay [man], we supported his visibily, ” says Luiz Mott.
GAY PRO SOCCER REFEREE CLAIMS OVER 30% OF MALE SOCCER PLAYERS ARE GAY OR BI. IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?
Mexin soccer feratn aga urg fans to stop g chant after FIFA hands tought penalty to date rponse to persistent e of anti-gay slur. * gay soccer ref funny *
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. 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.
For refere and assistants like Sérg Cenezi or gay soccer leagu like LiGay, that’s what Je reprented the 1980s.
Margarida was also the nickname of a famo gay Brazilian soccer referee Je José Eiano dos Santos, who ed a very flamboyant style durg match. 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 SOCCER PLAYER’S TEAM RPONDS TO HOMOPHOBIC SLUR BY TROUNCG OPPONENTS
“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.
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. 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). 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.