If you haven’t noticed yet, but Soccers World Cup will be played in the US this year. FIFA President Gianni Infantino, who is choosing to ignore all the uproar of the rocket high prices, was recently at the White House, brown-nosing the Orange Man with some trumped-up FIFA PEACE AWARD. Talk about Fake News.
Now news has reached the Queerguru Sports Desk that Seattle’s local organizing committee for World Cup 2026 has been preparing to stage a historic “Pride Match” at Lumen Field on June 26, the Friday of Pride Weekend. The themed fixture would be the first of its kind at a FIFA World Cup. The anniversary of the Stonewall riots is on June 28.
Plans to celebrate LGBTQ Pride Month at a FIFA World Cup match are set to continue, even though the two countries selected Egypt v Iran. for the fixture both have draconian anti-gay laws. It will provide both teams an opportunity to showcase their horrific anti-gay policies
Both Egypt and Iran criminalize gay relationships. In Iran, capital punishment is still the maximum penalty under the law. According to the Human Dignity Trust, there is evidence in recent years of the enforcement of their respective laws in each of the two nations.
A match between countries that vociferously oppose Pride presents a complex scenario for Seattle organizers, who have set up a Pride Match Advisory Committee (PMAC) to “shape the communications, community activations, and cultural programming” for the festivities..
What is adding insult to injury are official comments saying that the situation this year will ‘be so much better’ that in the 2022 World Cup which was held in the violently homophobic Qatar where gay men are still imprisoned and are subject to beatings and torture, and forced “conversion therapy“
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