What might be deemed “gay” in West Hollywood or the Castro is just your average afternoon post-practice ritual for so many straight guys completely comfortable with their own bodies and the bodies of their teammates and opponents. Of course it’s more than that.īut what gets so often lost is that the opposite is also true: Grabbing another guy’s nether regions is about a lot more than being “gay” (so please, forgive the shorthand). I’ve been out for 20-plus years and with my husband for exactly 62.963% of that time. Of course being gay is a lot more than grabbing another guy’s nether regions. Some people chuckled at the grabby player “getting caught ” Others were horrified and sounded the “sexual assault” alarm.įor me it was just straight athletes going gay. “We’re showing that we are here, that we are proud of being gay, and that we won’t be ashamed to show it.When a video close-up of Clemson defensive lineman Christian Wilkins grabbing the ass and genitals of an opposing Ohio State player surfaced last weekend, it got a panoply of reaction. “We are claiming a space,” says Silvares.
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Still, both Silvares and Boas are hopeful that, just by being part of an openly gay football team, they can fight back against homophobia in sports and politics alike. “It’s a bit of a powder keg and this campaign lit a match to it and made it explode.” “Brazil is already a very challenging country for LGBT people,” said Leandro Ramos, the director of programs at All Out, an international LGBT+ advocacy group. We’ve achieved so much, we’ve had so many advances, and now there’s this fear of having some kind of setback after that election.” “We’re worried about losing rights, losing visibility. “It’s super alarming,” says Silvares, of Bolsonaro’s election.
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Some of the Futeboys players worry that Bolsonaro’s anti-gay messaging is likely to intensify the growing attacks against LGBT+ people in Brazil, and could result in a backtrack on gay and trans rights.Ī few weeks before the election, a video circulated online showing fans of the professional Atletico-Mineiro football team chanting, “Bolsonaro will kill all queers!” “I would prefer my son died in an accident” than bring home a male partner, the now president-elect added. LiGay’s first tournament was held last year in Rio de Janeiro, with eight teams competing a second was held in April this year in Porto Alegre.īut with the election of far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro to Brazil’s presidency, the players fear that their newfound comfort may not last.īolsonaro is well-known for his openly homophobic rhetoric, telling Playboy magazine in 2011 that he “would be incapable of loving a homosexual son.”
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The group quickly grew into an amateur team and then became a full league.
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“We started out as a group of friends who liked football, that wanted to play without being afraid of suffering the homophobia of straight teams,” he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation via WhatsApp message. When I first met the Futeboys, it was love at first sight.”įuteboys started playing in September 2015, alongside a number of other gay teams in Sao Paulo that were seeking a friendlier sporting environment, according to Erik Arnesen, the team’s founder and director. “I’d never seen football like that: a fun, carefree football, where everyone is learning together, playing together. “It was an incredible experience,” says Boas. The club is a founding member of LiGay Nacional de Futebol, a league for gay football teams from across Brazil. The country is among the world’s most dangerous for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT+) people, with 445 people killed last year alone, according to watchdog group Grupo Gay de Bahia, a 30 percent increase on 2016.īut when Silvares came across Futeboys FC, a gay football team, in Sao Paulo last year, it helped him discover a love for the sport adored by the nation.
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And if you’re a teenager, a kid who’s gay, you end up withdrawing from that environment.” “In Brazil, I think that it’s a bit of a homophobic sport, because the common curse words that are used are things like ‘faggot’, ‘little fag’. “I was scared to play, because it wasn’t somewhere I felt comfortable,” Silvares, 34, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Mexico City (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Growing up gay in Vitoria, a city of almost 2 million in south-eastern Brazil, Joao Paulo Silvares never really liked playing football, the country’s national sport and passion.