David Beckham is being harshly criticized for supporting the normalization of homosexuality in elite sports while adding millions of dollars to his fortune by being the image of the Qatar World Cup 2022, where marriage and same-sex relationships are prohibited.
A few days ago Beckham publicly supported the young Jake Daniels, the Blackpool midfielder from 17 years since he came out of the closet and thus became the first active professional footballer in the UK to come out as gay since the late Justin Fashanu in 1990. In the statement that he released after hearing the news, he also regretted that living sexuality naturally continues to be a matter of courage for his colleagues in the profession.
Now the gay magazine Attitude has denounced him through Instagram for the lack of coherence between his actions and his words, since it is believed that the Qatari government has paid Victoria Beckham’s husband around 13 million dollars to be the image of the World Cup this coming winter.
“Beckham wonders about why homosexuals in sport should be different from others. One of the reasons that David could take into account is that in many parts of the world homosexuals are not only marginalized and oppressed, but also persecuted. One of those places is Qatar, a country of which it is about to become the image”, the publication has assured.
A spokesperson for Attitude added that Qatar it is an “extremely homophobic” country where Islamic law punishes homosexual relationships with life imprisonment, flogging and even death sentences. The choice of this state for the World Cup has been condemned by human rights defenders and in April the director of the Department of International Cooperation warned fans planning to travel there that the rainbow flags of the LGBTQI+ community could be confiscated. For your own “safety”.
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