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Brazilian referee Igor Benevenuto has bee the first FIFA-ranked referee football history to e out as gay.

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IGOR BENEVENUTO BE FIRST FIFA-RANKED REFEREE TO E OUT AS GAY

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Adriana GarciaJul 9, 2022, 06:29 AM ETBrazilian referee Igor Benevenuto has bee the first FIFA-ranked referee football history to e out as gay.

Benevenuto, 41, announced durg a Globoporte podst that he is gay and exprsed his joy that he is fally ready to be a statement to GloboEsporte, FIFA said: "FIFA wel and supports referee Igor Benevenuto and his cisn to e out. 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.

HOW ONE OF BRAZIL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SOCCER REFERE CHANGED THE GAME

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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.

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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.

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