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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Paul McAuley

Liverpool FC helps LGBT+ fans be their 'authentic selves' over last decade

Liverpool Football Club has been championing LGBT+ rights for over a decade now.

While football fans' attention continues to turn to the FIFA 2022 World Cup and has done for the last month, it could be easily argued that the sport has gotten progressively worse, particularly for the LGBTQ+ community.

The coveted football tournament’s host nation, Qatar, criminalises homosexuality and is punishable with a jail sentence of up to seven years. Although there has been no record of it to this date, the country can also punish Muslim men with the death penalty for engaging in same-sex activity.

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