Gary Lineker should ask why gay footballers don't come out in the UK before criticising Qatar 🟢 GARSIDEK for iPaperSport
Linker says he knows of two gay Premier League footballers who are considering coming out
Countries where homosexuality is both illegal and culturally offensive are straightforward targets for the anger of rightminded people. The Daily Mirror’s front page projection of’s stance on Qatar’s medieval orientation towards the LBGTQ community met the liberal standard. It also shone a light on an awkward paradox at play in liberal Britain that permits good people like Lineker to take aim at Qatar as if all were well at home.
In truth the prejudice and discrimination that permits the incarceration and execution of members of the LBGTQ community in Qatar is also present, if to a less obvious or dangerous degree, in the attitudes of people in Britain. How else do we explain? It is nobody else’s business, of course, but it remains of prurient interest in a climate of fear and distrust.
Lineker referred to more than one gay player in England that he knows personally who is wrestling with the issue of coming out. Lineker thinks it would be marvellous were they to do so during theBut does it not shame us that the jeopardy involved in doing so is so great they chose to conceal the truth at home? As well-meaning as Lineker’s comments are, the way the piece was presented suggests the difficulties facing gay players at home was not even in his thinking.
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