Journalist who wore LGBT shirt at Qatar World Cup found DEAD!

[KrisJ]

American journalist Grant Wahl dies suddenly while covering World Cup

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Eric Wahl suspects foul play was involved in his brother’s death in Qatar.

 

 

The journalist was in Qatar covering the World Cup and recently caused controversy there for trying to enter the stadium wearing a rainbow tshirt. Now he has been found DEAD in Qatar and his brother suspects foul play 

[Kiss my]

[Stefani]

Omg. Imagine supporting the LGBT community with a t-shirt and being killed over it.  And we're supposed to respect Qatar for their homophobia?

[Buffie]

This people at Qatar are bat**** crazy and live in the dark ages.... 

[KrisJ]

I wonder if this will be addressed? It’s insane and so scary 

[KrisJ]

His IG literally has a story from 10 hours ago …

[Haha-Hehe-Haha-Ho]

This is wild, wasn’t his tiktok about being denied entry with the rainbow shirt just going around a couple days ago? If someone is behind this tragedy, I hope the ensuing story overshadows any glory these barbaric zealots got from hosting the games and becomes a symbol of how shameful this supposed religious and moralistic culture truly is.

[RadicalOptimism]

People watching and supporting these games hosted in that place should be ashamed. 

[KrisJ]

Most of the comments I’m reading on social media are : “well he was warned not to promote pride/lgbt” 

What a horrible take on it..

[Cancer]

Why are people surprised about this? Are LGBT people in the west so coccooned and mollycoddled that they fail to realize this is the norm in many Middle Eastern and African countries? And yes, Europe too. People are still killed for being gay in parts of Russia.

The journalist and his gay brother have my sympathies but they were VERY naive for assuming they could wear pro LGBT garb without suffering dire consequences....

Boycotting the world cup would not do a thing to address this issue. Countless governments would have to return millions, perhaps billions to Quatar and nothing short of a radical war or revolution would bring about any fundamental change. We're seeing some of that play out in Iran as we speak.

 

 

[Britneys Little Sis]

I just broke down into tears.

 

Wow.

[danielgeismas]

i'm sorry but if you keep watching the games you're supporting qatar's homophobia to me. 🤷‍♂️

[Aymama]

We’ve still got a ways to go. Y’all be strong but most importantly stay safe 

[ObsessedBritFan1]

OMG! I was just watching Elite and Cruz gets beat up for coming out as a football star. I was thinking to myself ... that doesn't happen but then I come here and read this

 

 

[TheVoodooThatWeDo]

2 hours ago, ObsessedBritFan1 said:

OMG! I was just watching Elite and Cruz gets beat up for coming out as a football star. I was thinking to myself ... that doesn't happen but then I come here and read this

 

 

This Elite storyline is timely. Because, in the last number of years Spain’s far right political party (VOX) have been gaining more and more support. It’s scary.

They are pro-fascist, pro-violence and anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-feminism/women’s rights

Last year, a number of “VOX supporters” beat to death a young gay man (Samuel Luiz) while he chatting on his phone outside a bar during pride weekend. Many suspected he ****** was a hate crime.

It sparked country-wide outrage from the highest level of government to the people streets. Numerous vigils and demonstrations were organised in his honour. People couldn’t understand how a country with one of the best LGBTQ+ laws/rights, something like this could happen (same-s** marriage has been legal since 2005, the 3rd country in the world to do so). 

Football is especially important in Spain. It’s more than a national sport. It’s like a religion. It means so much to so many. For years, there have been rumours of top-footballers in the Spanish league being bi/gay and were preparing to come out. But it never happened. And since Luiz’s ******, the chance of this happening has gotten smaller and smaller, along with hope of this ever happening.

Shockingly, in Barcelona and Madrid, notoriously openly gay cities since the early 20th century, have seen a huge increase in homophobia motivated crimes, namely attacks, assaults, violence against LGBTQ+ individuals. Most of these are not just Trans, but young gay men walking home at night. 5 years ago this was unheard of.

Sadly, times have changed. For the worse. 

You can read more about Samuel below, who’s story influenced Elite in more ways than one:
 

Homophobia: ****** of Samuel Luiz galvanizes Spain’s LGBTQ+ community: ‘There is no going back’ | Society | EL PAÍS English Edition

ENGLISH.ELPAIS.COM

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The alleged homophobic killing of the 24-year-old nurse has sparked an outpouring of support, with...

 

Killing of Samuel Luiz - Wikipedia

EN.M.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

 

[ObsessedBritFan1]

14 minutes ago, TheVoodooThatWeDo said:

This Elite storyline is timely. Because, in the last number of years Spain’s far right political party (VOX) have been gaining more and more support. It’s scary.

They are pro-fascist, pro-violence and anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-feminism/women’s rights

Last year, a number of “VOX supporters” beat to death a young gay man (Samuel Luiz) while he chatting on his phone outside a bar during pride weekend. Many suspected he ****** was a hate crime.

It sparked country-wide outrage from the highest level of government to the people streets. Numerous vigils and demonstrations were organised in his honour. People couldn’t understand how a country with one of the best LGBTQ+ laws/rights, something like this could happen (same-s** marriage has been legal since 2005, the 3rd country in the world to do so). 

Football is especially important in Spain. It’s more than a national sport. It’s like a religion. It means so much to so many. For years, there have been rumours of top-footballers in the Spanish league being bi/gay and were preparing to come out. But it never happened. And since Luiz’s ******, the chance of this happening has gotten smaller and smaller, along with hope of this ever happening.

Shockingly, in Barcelona and Madrid, notoriously openly gay cities since the early 20th century, have seen a huge increase in homophobia motivated crimes, namely attacks, assaults, violence against LGBTQ+ individuals. Most of these are not just Trans, but young gay men walking home at night. 5 years ago this was unheard of.

Sadly, times have changed. For the worse. 

You can read more about Samuel below, who’s story influenced Elite in more ways than one:
 

Homophobia: ****** of Samuel Luiz galvanizes Spain’s LGBTQ+ community: ‘There is no going back’ | Society | EL PAÍS English Edition

ENGLISH.ELPAIS.COM

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The alleged homophobic killing of the 24-year-old nurse has sparked an outpouring of support, with...

 

Killing of Samuel Luiz - Wikipedia

EN.M.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

 

Omg wtf  I'm so so sorry. Thank you for sharing. That must be devastating. I had no idea. The world is getting scarier. 

[TheVoodooThatWeDo]

5 minutes ago, ObsessedBritFan1 said:

Omg wtf  I'm so so sorry. Thank you for sharing. That must be devastating. I had no idea. The world is getting scarier. 

That’s what “they” want. For people like Samuel to be scared to be themselves in public. To hide being different. To hide being gay. To hide their truth.

His ****** has had the opposite effect.

Pride is now even more important than ever in Spain. It’s more popular and more respected now by everyone. And there was a even a noticeable shift on Grindr of gay Spanish men shunning “toxic masculinity”and the promotion of “straight acting” “Bros” mentality and embracing a more non-binary representation. 

It’s been very exciting to see.

Samuel did not die in vein ❤️❤️❤️

[GlitterRain]

Rest In Peace 

[IAmBorg]

You guys do know that he had had heart problems days before his passing, a cold and probably not enough of sleep. He wrote it himself in a newsletter.
 

Yes Quatar is anti-everything western. But don’t jump to conclusions without more information. I’m sure US authorities are all over it. 

[Britney'sBish]

Honestly if it is foul play Qatar should be banned from future games.