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Contents:

• WELSH NATNAL FOOTBALL TEAM STAFF REFE TO GO TO WORLD CUP QATAR BEE OF UNTRY’S ANTI-GAY LAWS
• JAKE DANIELS BE FIRST UK MALE FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY SCE 1990
• WHY ARE MORE FEMALE PROFSNAL FOOTBALLERS OPENLY GAY OR BISEXUAL THAN MALE PLAYERS?
• SOME WELSH FOOTBALL STAFF TO BOYTT FIFA WORLD CUP QATAR OVER LACK OF GAY RIGHTS
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN FIRST MALE PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

WELSH NATNAL FOOTBALL TEAM STAFF REFE TO GO TO WORLD CUP QATAR BEE OF UNTRY’S ANTI-GAY LAWS

McAllister, the former Sport Wal chair and Fifa uncil ndidate, is gay and said the secury at the stadium was "heavy hand. Discsns about creatg groups at Cardiff Cy and Newport County are pta Sophie Ingle wears a rabow armband support of the Rabow Lac mpaign, which aims to tackle homophobic, biphobic and transphobic attus sport"Hopefully the next number of weeks every club - Cardiff, Swansea, Wrexham, Newport - will have their own LGBTQ+ fans groups that will all lk to one another as well as the natnal group, " Webber says.

Febary is Football v Homophobia month, and will see the lnch of the LGBT Football Network Wal. Some Welsh natnal football team staff have opted not travel to the World Cup Qatar bee of the untry’s anti-gay laws, an official has revealed.

Football Associatn of Wal (FAW) chief executive Neil Mooney said some of his iends and staff members “won’t be travellg” to Qatar, where homosexualy is illegal, after the team qualified for the World Cup fals for the first time sce after Uefa’s cisn the allow Qatar to host the World Cup has been wily cricised over s abysmal human rights rerd and alleged treatment of migrant workers who have been employed to build s than 24, 000 workers have suffered human rights ab Qatar while workg on seven new stadiums, a new metro system, hotels, roads and an airport, acrdg to a report by Bs and Human Rights Rource Centre published Mooney said the team would e the event as a “platform” to discs human rights Qatar, where homosexualy n be punishable by the ath penalty – and urged Fifa and Uefa to “thk very eply about their nscience” when choosg host an terview wh the BBC Polics Wal programme, Mr Mooney explaed: “They’re [staff] not gog to go to the tournament, which is absolutely their right to do Welsh team have qualified for the World Cup fals which kicks off November (Photo: Michael Bulr/NESImag/DeFodi Imag via Getty Imag)“The vast, vast majory of people will go and unrstand also our posn that is a platform to try to improve life there and to have good dialogue on issu like human rights… and migrant workers. ”Dpe FAW nmng Qatar’s human rights rerd and anti-gay laws, Mr Mooney said he did not believe was the “right thg” for the team to boytt the om NewsHe add the squad hoped to e the World Cup “as a force for good” world’s leadg human rights anisatn Amnty Internatnal, prevly said women and LGBTQ+ (lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, tersex, queer or qutng) people “ntue to face discrimatn law and practice” has also lled on Qatar to ver $440m to ver pensatn claims of ‘abed’ migrant workers brought to the untry to build World Cup members of the Rabow Wall, Wal’ official LGBTQ+ supporters’ group, have prevly said they will not travel to Qatar to support the Mooney add Rabow Wall is a “big part of the FAW” and will be the centre of s thoughts as “plans for this World Cup”.

JAKE DANIELS BE FIRST UK MALE FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY SCE 1990

The Blackpool forward Jake Daniels has end s of silence wh men’s football to bee the first player the UK to e out as gay sce Jt Fashanu 1990.

Photograph: Pl Dennis/TGS Photo/ShutterstockDaniels’s revelatn is a strikg landmark that when men’s football is more engaged wh social issu than any recent time, but still unable to ce progrs LGBTQ reprentatn wh the year Alai Uned’s Josh Cavallo beme the only male top-flight profsnal footballer the world to e out as gay, but others are yet to follow. In six months the men’s World Cup will be played Qatar, where homosexualy is illegal, and Cavallo revealed to the Guardian he would be “sred” to play at the tournament, the pnacle of world English football specifilly, the shadow of the talented and unfulfilled Fashanu still lgers over the game. The England ternatnal me out at the end of his reer and was to take his own life eight years later, Fashanu, Jt’s niece, who ns a charable foundatn his name, said that Daniels’s cisn would “e as a huge fort to the many footballers at all levels of the game still secretly livg as gay and who still feel unable to e out”.

WHY ARE MORE FEMALE PROFSNAL FOOTBALLERS OPENLY GAY OR BISEXUAL THAN MALE PLAYERS?

By ITV News Content Producer Alex BleyThe most proment Women's World Cup ever has e to a close wh another USA only did the tournament throw a spotlight on how different the women's game is om the men's, highlighted how different the teams are as the whole tournament, there were at least 41 female players or ach who are openly gay or the male tournament 2018, there were none. Siarly the Premier League, there is not one sgle player who is openly gay or least five members of the Lns are gay or bisexual, pared wh none of England's male a society where gay marriag n take place, and same-sex upl enjoy the same legal privileg as their heterosexual unterparts, the make-up of both football teams is at odds wh Brish society as a w World Cup aga after victory agast NetherlandsSame-sex marriage me to force the UK 2014.

Cred: PAAcrdg to the Office for Natnal Statistics, 2017, around two per cent of the populatn intified as lbian, gay or is not that male football only attracts heterosexual mal, or women's football a high rat of lbian or bisexual players, but largely due to the differg atmospher surroundg the two gam. "Conversely " the men's game there's more racism, sexism and homophobia", he abe directed at footballers supportg #Enough social media boyttSterlg: Football Chiefs dog 'nowhere near enough' to solve racism problemRacist abe directed at footballers supportg #Enough social media boyttDr Stefan Lawrence, an expert masculy sport and senr lecturer at Newman Universy Birmgham, agre that women's football has a "different culture" to men's. Cred: Three Lns PriThe fact that there were 41 players or ach at the Women's World Cup who were openly gay or bisexual means that beg so the female game is more of a norm.

SOME WELSH FOOTBALL STAFF TO BOYTT FIFA WORLD CUP QATAR OVER LACK OF GAY RIGHTS

""People are wag for an ele male player to e out, " adds Di Cunngham, another -founr of Three Lns this jt creas the prsure that the first male player to announce that he is gay or bisexual, will e unr, she adds.

"It's such a big al for one footballer to e out, that a few need to do at once to take the prsure off, " believ Dr Rachael Bullgham, a senr lecturer at the Universy of Worcter who specialis homophobia women's sport. Cred: PAThe way which male and female players are veloped is also believed to be a factor why female players beg gay or bisexual is more the norm than male ele male players have e through football ami where they have been sce a young age. "It's not bee gay men aren't terted beg profsnal footballers, " he explas, but bee ami are "heteronormative" (where beg heterosexual is the norm) environments.

Cred: PAWhile the male game is "heteronormative", acrdg to Lawrence, the female game is the oppose and "homonormative", he says, meang that players who are lbian or bisexual do not hi their sexuali as they feel that beg homosexual is "much more accepted" until the "heteronormative" atmosphere men's football is broken, by players g out, will ntue to self-perpetuate. "They may have veloped a thick-sk breakg down the barriers they already have, " meang g out is one more a seri of hurdl for them to Magrath, a senr lecturer at Solent Universy who specialis homophobia and masculy agre that female footballers may jt see as yet another barrier they mt break down orr to succeed.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Cred: Stonewal FCAnother reason why players may not want to e out is that those at the top of their game will travel around the next men's World Cup is Qatar 2022, a untry which beg homosexual is punishable by up to seven years prison.

"Homophobia football is clg, but some untri is still illegal, " not Bullgham. Players may be fearful about travellg to such untri if they are gay or bisexual, and she adds that their partners might also worry about gog to such untri to support them. "The FA is mted to tacklg homophobia, biphobia and transphobia football at every level of the game.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN FIRST MALE PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

Cred: Twter/The FAAll of those terviewed also agreed that the ma factor about why so few male players are openly gay or bisexual is the atmosphere surroundg the game which stems om the stigma historilly attached to the 1967 Sexual Offenc Act crimalised "homosexual acts" between mal aged 21 and over England and Wal and was the first step on a path towards the ongog goal of equaly, did not wipe away prejudic overnight, nor did mean equaly, for example barred two gay men om havg sex a hotel. Several members of staff for Wal' natnal football team will not travel to the FIFA World Cup Qatar later this year bee of the untry's stance on gay rights. Football Associatn of Wal chief executive Noel Mooney claimed the team would e the event as a platform to discs human rights Qatar, where homosexualy is is also askg FIFA and UEFA to "thk very eply about their nscience" when choosg future hosts event hosts - although Qatari officials have sisted will be a "tournament for everyone".

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021.

Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league. Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St Louis Rams selected him 2021, Carl Nassib, then wh the Las Vegas Rairs, beme the first active NFL player to e out publicly.

A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

It will be a glor month to be a gay fan. Last time at the 2019 Women’s World Cup, the Netherlands lay claim to the honor of beg the team wh the most out LGBTQ players, but this year Atralia boasts 10 out players and overtak them for the tle of Gayt Team 2k23.