I remember lists of queer players during the Women's World Cup. Where are the lists of openly gay and bisexual men's footballers in this weekend's #EURO2020 final and #CopaAmerica finals?
https://twitter.com/Openly/status/1413513656050982914
How when we know that at least 10 percent of any population belongs to the LGBTQ+ community, is there not a single out player in the men’s top leagues while the women’s game has a long history of openly gay players?
Patriarchy. That’s how. feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-f…
Patriarchy. That’s how. feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-f…
Sampdoria and Sweden star Albin Ekdal in 2019 on the lack of openly gay men in professional football. @ekdalalbin
Douglas Braga realised he could not carry on playing football and be an out gay man in #Brazil.
"It was a choice that either you're yourself, or you're a footballer. It just wasn't possible to be both." At 21, he quit football. #LGBTQ #CopaAmerica
bbc.com/news/world-lat…
"It was a choice that either you're yourself, or you're a footballer. It just wasn't possible to be both." At 21, he quit football. #LGBTQ #CopaAmerica
bbc.com/news/world-lat…
Patriarchy fuels the domestic violence I write about in my new essay. It is also what fuels the boos when players take a knee and the racial abuse yelled at Black and players of colour; it is what fuels homophobic chants that are brushed off as “jokes.” feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-f…
In the 2019 Women's World Cup, the two teams with the most out athletes were in the final.
The #USA and #NED women’s teams each had five out lesbian and bisexual players apiece. outsports.com/2019/7/5/20683… h/t @rerutled #LGBTQ #Euro2020Final #CopaAmerica
The #USA and #NED women’s teams each had five out lesbian and bisexual players apiece. outsports.com/2019/7/5/20683… h/t @rerutled #LGBTQ #Euro2020Final #CopaAmerica
If queer is the opposite of heteronormativity, the queerest--and joyously so--sporting environment I’ve witnessed live were the Women’s World Cup matches in Montreal in 2015. #EURO2020 #CopaAmerica 📷 @rerutled 
The stands were full of outsiders: women w/babies, teen girls-- rarely seen in televised men’s games--w/faces painted in colors of their teams & men there alone, all of us unburdened by the need to imitate a form of masculinity that the men’s game insists on as price of admission
There were no reports of abuse going home after the matches; no campaigns that warned that “If England is beaten, so is he,”; and the players on the pitch were there to play, not engage in bombastic flops and fake injuries.
It is time for men to learn from women how to play football.
feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-f… #EURO2020 #CopaAmerica #CopaAmerica2021
feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-f… #EURO2020 #CopaAmerica #CopaAmerica2021
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