Footballrs gays : préparez-vo à s révélatns

Contents:

• GAY FOOTBALLERS G OUT IS BRAVE & SPIRG – BUT I’LL FEND PLAYERS WHO WON’T WEAR THE RABOW, SAYS PIERS MAN
• GAY FOOTBALLERS NMN CASILLAS, PUYOL FOR 'MOCKG LGBTQ+ MUNY' ON TWTER
• FOOTBALLRS GAYS : PRéPAREZ-VO à S RéVéLATNS
• EVRA: THERE ARE AT LEAST TWO GAY PLAYERS AT EVERY FOOTBALL CLUB

GAY FOOTBALLERS G OUT IS BRAVE & SPIRG – BUT I’LL FEND PLAYERS WHO WON’T WEAR THE RABOW, SAYS PIERS MAN

Homosexualy is illegal Senegal and punishable by prison sentenc of up to five years. It is also illegal Qatar, where PSG's owners hail om and where the men's 2022 World Cup will be staged later this top Twter trend the world on Wednday was #WeareallIdrissa wh tweets sent to support Gueye's 's stance is ntrast to the overwhelmgly posive rponse om football towards Blackpool's 17-year-old forward Jake Daniels g out as gay on Monday - the first openly gay men's profsnal footballer Bra sce Jt Fashanu 30 years Daniels: Why Blackpool forward's cisn is a watershed moment for Brish football5 Mut On: Jake Daniels - will he change football?

'Football is ready' to accept gay players - Blackpool amy directorFrench top-flight clubs wore rabow-signed shirt numbers to show their solidary wh LGBTQ+ rightsFor the send succsive season, clubs France have been ved to mark 17 May's Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia by wearg rabow-sign numbers on the back of their addn to missg Saturday's w over Montpellier, Gueye, who arrived at PSG for £30m July 2019, missed last year's show of solidary cg gastroenteris, acrdg to Le Parisien newspaper, who first reported the reason for his absence. "The biggt stars of world football were on the field on Saturday and exprsed the club's mment to the fight agast homophobia and all forms of discrimatn, " 's stance has been supported by proment policians untry's print Macky Sall wrote on Twterexternal-lk that Gueye's Mlim beliefs mt be rpected, while sport mister Matar Ba wrote that Gueye was backed by his untry's people, alongsi a picture of the midfielr on pilgrimage to Mec.

External-lkAnalysisBabar Diarra, BBC AiFrom his team-mat wh the natnal team like PSG's Abdou Diallo or Crystal Palace's Cheikhou Kouyate to the print Macky Sall or even the novelist Boubar Boris Dp, Idrissa Gana Gueye was wily backed on social medias across Senegal and the followed speculatn he didn't want to wear the PSG jersey on Saturday as part of Ligue 1's anti-homophobic mpaign.

GAY FOOTBALLERS NMN CASILLAS, PUYOL FOR 'MOCKG LGBTQ+ MUNY' ON TWTER

The Senegal ternatnal was absent for Saturday's 4-0 w over Montpellier Ligue 1 for "personal reasons" rather than jury, acrdg to ach Mric mt "issue a public apology" or say the mours he refed to take part French football's fight agast homophobia are "unfound", acrdg to a letter seen Wednday by AFP addrsed to the also missed a match last year on a day dited to raisg awarens agast discrimatn. A Mlim, Gueye hails om the Islamic Ain untry of Senegal, where homosexualy is punishable by up to five years prison (though prosecutns were rare before this year, acrdg to ABC News). Women’s natnal team, which would have worn gay pri–themed jerseys wh rabow-lored numbers ternatnal “iendli” (basilly, glorified exhibn match).

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“Homophobia is not an opn but a crime, ” said Rouge Direct, an anizatn voted to batg bigotry French sports.

Abdoul Mbaye, Senegal’s former prime mister, said likewise, clarg that Gueye “is not homophobic. He do not want his image to be ed to promote homosexualy.

While hailg Brish soccer player Jake Daniels as “bold, urageo and spirg” for g out as gay the days followg what Man lled Gueye’s “silent stand, ” Man also lled on fans to monstrate relig tolerance toward Gueye. “If Gueye was publicly rantg homophobic bigotry, that would be appallg, and he should be punished, ” Man wrote. “PSG is owned by the Emir of Qatar where ’s illegal to be gay and Mlims like Gueye n be executed for , ” he wrote.

EVRA: THERE ARE AT LEAST TWO GAY PLAYERS AT EVERY FOOTBALL CLUB

When Paris Sat-Germa played a French league match agast Montpellier last Saturday, the whole team cludg superstars Lnel Msi, Kylian Mbappe and Neymar wore rabow lours on their shirts to mark Tuday’s Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia. Ain midfielr Idrissa Gueye, who is a vout Mlim – strict forms of Islam don’t tolerate homosexualy - didn’t play bee he didn’t want to wear the rabow lours which were first created the ‘70s as a symbol of pri and tolerance for the gay muny. Rouge Direct, a French associatn fightg bigotry sport, clared: ‘Homophobia is not an opn but a crime.

Gueye’s exc show that the club [PSG] and League let homophobia happen.