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1w ago

2026 World Cup: 'Pride Match' to feature Egypt and Iran - where homosexuality is illegal

www.bbc.com 2026 World Cup: 'Pride Match' to feature Egypt and Iran - where homosexuality is illegal

A 2026 World Cup fixture designated by organisers as an LGBTQ+ 'Pride Match' will feature two countries where homosexuality is illegal.

2026 World Cup: 'Pride Match' to feature Egypt and Iran - where homosexuality is illegal

I expect nothing but calm and collected responses from the regimes in question. What a perfect game to make a statement.

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They will exchange jerseys at the end of the match, then kiss.

Well, considering the history of Stonewall, Pride Marches, and LGBT's harassment by the police in the US, it seems appropriate to have Egypt's and Iran's participation in these pride marches.
- You wanna compare the treatment of lgbtq in the us to Iran and Egypt? Really?
  
  The treatment of LGBT in the US just within the last generation? Yeah. Harvey Milk and Stonewall were just within my mom's lifetime, universal gay marriage was just recognized, and there is a conserted and zealous effort to undo everything so as to kill the gays again here in the west (they're even trying to divide and conquer by erasing the T in LGBT). This isn’t even to get into the craze that happened with the military's "friend of Dorothy" debacle.
  *Edit: one more thing, the Trump administration and Pam Bondi have just targeted the LGBT again with a new directive to the FBI.
  **Edit 2: Upstairs Lounge Attack where a gay club was firebombed and the churches refused to burry the victims? That was just 50 years ago.

It's a trap

They're already playing soccer, what more do you want?
- *football, not hand egg.

This is soccer?
I have a feeling the average international soccer fan doesn't take too kindly to queer ideals.
- Football.
  
  After FIFA gave Trump the Peace Prize participation trophy, he announced that he thought we should call soccer football, and the NFL should think of something else.
  In before he suggests Trumpball. You know it's coming.
  
  I know you are just being difficult for no reason, so i am probably wasting my time typing this, but please remember that britain came up with the name soccer to reduce the confusion between rugby football and assosiation football, but for some reason it didn't stick in its country of origin. Association football IS also called soccer, and britain came up with both names. Football is a generic term that refers to any variation of rugby such as soccer, american football, gridiron football, as well as a couple others.

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