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The Mirror reports:
LGBT+ football fans have launched a fund in an attempt to persuade FIFA where to hold the 2030 World Cup through ‘donations’. This year’s tournament is being held in Qatar, which is alleged to hunt, arrest and beat LGBT+ people.
Considering a bid for the 2030 tournament is Saudi Arabia, another country which outlaws homosexuality and persecutes the LGBT+ community.
In an attempt to stop the Middle East nation from winning the right to host, football fans, including iconic actress Miriam Margolyes, have launched the Big Gay Donation to convince the “definitely not corrupt people who run football to host an LGBTQ+ friendly 2030 World Cup”.
The primary purpose of this clever campaign, perhaps obviously, is to raise awareness in general about countries that persecute LGBTQ people. Donations will actually go to the British group Stonewall UK.
The famously bawdy Margoyles is perhaps best known for her role as Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter franchise. Here’s the text of her video below.
Queer people across the globe love football. We just can’t support it like everyone else, because the World Cup is currently being held in Qatar – and we all know how Qatar feels about the gays.
But if THAT wasn’t a big enough kick in the tits, the 2030 World Cup could be given to another host nation that criminalises LGBTQ+ people, judging by the countries currently bidding for it.
It’s our big gay duty to make sure this doesn’t happen again. After all, a World Cup without queer people just isn’t a World Cup.
Luckily, it turns out the wonderful, upstanding people who run football love “donations”. So we thought we’d create one of our own. The Big Gay “Donation”.
A “donation” so big and gay and persuasive, it can convince the lovely, open-minded, honest people who run football to hold the 2030 world cup in an LGBTQ+ friendly host nation.
Of course, there’s every chance they won’t accept our generous “donation” because it might go against their absolutely unimpeachable moral standards.
So, we’ll give it to a big gay charity instead: Stonewall. Helping support queer people all over the world, including the ones living in Qatar.
So if, like me, you’re a great big gay and you love football, or if you love football and also gays, please share and donate whatever you can to the Big Gay “Donation”.
? The Big Gay “Donation” ?
Join Miriam in convincing the definitely not corrupt people who run football to host an LGBTQ+ friendly 2030 World Cup – or raise money for a big gay charity instead
“Donate” at https://t.co/TQVqajAulG ?#thebigdaydonation @MMargolyes @stonewalluk pic.twitter.com/dc9Ukb4tI1— The Big Gay Donation (@BigGayDonation) December 16, 2022
