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Joe Lycett and David Beckham: The lgbtq+ issues behind the Qatar World Cup
TL;DR: Bisexual comedian (and icon) Joe Lycett took to Instagram to call out footballer David Beckham for signing on as an envoy for the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, which has an abhorrent LGBTQIA+ rights record.
In a video which has been viewed over a million times, Lycett commended Beckham’s “status as a gay icon” owing to him entity the first premiership footballer to execute a photoshoot with LGBTQIA+ publication Attitude and his history of speaking openly to and about his gay fans.
In response to Beckham reportedly taking a £10 million deal to be an ambassador for the World Cup, Lycett told his followers he would donate £10,000 to charities supporting queer people in football if Beckham backed out of the deal by midday this Sunday. Otherwise, he would shred the cash. - Joe Lycett
In a follow-up post, Lycett common a screenshot of an email to Beckham’s PR, saying: “I really don’t want to shred ten grand!!! I also really don’t want a national treasure […] to publicly endorse and advertise a nation state that has an appalling human rights record and has the death penalty for gays - call me old fashioned
David Beckham 'proud' to have been ambassador for Qatar 2022 Planet Cup
Some LGBT fans boycotted the tournament over Qatar's treatment of gay people, where homosexuality is punishable by up to seven years in prison.
The conditions migrant workers lived and worked in while building the World Cup stadiums and male guardianship rules that curtail women's freedoms also came under intense scrutiny.
Days before the World Cup began comedian Joe Lycett appeared to annihilate £10,000 of his own coins in a protest against Beckham's role with the tournament, saying he was shredding it along with Beckham's "status as a gay icon".
Lycett later confirmed he had not really destroyed the cash and had in evidence donated the money to charity.
The host country's World Cup organisers stated "everyone is welcome" to visit and watch the matches, claiming no-one would be discriminated against.
The authorities also said there were three 'work-related' deaths on actual stadium construction sites since work began in 2014 - and 37 more off-site fatalities that are not 'work related'. The Supreme Committee vowed worker welfare was a
Top 10 LGBT+ Celebrity Allies 2018
In alphabetical order
This significant award recognises and thanks those outside the LGBT+ community who support the challenges around equality and inclusion.
David Beckham
Faced with tribal football fans, a mean sports press and a baying bevy of showbiz journalists, David Beckham has never shied away from his status as a gay icon. He clearly lets his children convey themselves (Brooklyn has been spotted in a Identity festival top) and is generally just a top sporting gent.
John Bishop
Despite a monumental mainstream and social media audience, John hasn’t been intimidated into backing down on his support for gay rights. He lent his support to the Come Out 2 Participate initiative, saying he’d help any gay football players who came out of the closet. He also took part in a Twitter ‘Thunderclap’ designed to eliminate homophobia, biphobia and transphobia from the internet.
James Corden
When Donald Trump banned transgender people serving in the military, chat demonstrate host James Corden wasn’t having any of it. In a clever parody of Nat King Cole’s L-O-V-E (retitled LGBT), he sang: “L: he d
Is This Mel C’s Comment On The David Beckham Male lover Rights Row?
As the fall out over David Beckham’s ambassadorship of Qatar for a reported £150m rages on (Will Young has now waded in, calling the football actor ‘repellent and cowardice personified’) David’s partner and former bandmate of his wife Victoria, Melanie Chisolm, has seemingly had her say.
Speaking to gay publication Attitude – which coincidentally was the first magazine to movie a premier league footballer on the cover with, yes, David Beckham in 2002, and which Joe Lycett shredded as part of his recent stunt – Sporty Spice aimed a not-so-subtle dig at Beckham and FIFA by saying, ‘It’s greed, isn’t it?
‘They can try and spin it that they’re there to build change, that sport can make modify. But it’s bullshit, it’s about wealth. Obviously I’m a huge England supporter, whatever the gender. But it’s complicated to get fully behind it when you know where the money’s coming from.’
Mel C has recently won the magazine’s ‘Honorary Queer Award’ for her continued allyship and work with LGBTQIA+ performance collective Sink The Pink; meanwhile, the owner of the publication confirmed a canvas type of Beckham’s cover which had hung in thei