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Is This Mel C’s Comment On The David Beckham Homosexual 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 celebrity ‘repellent and cowardice personified’) David’s companion 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 highlight 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 create change, that sport can make convert . But it’s bullshit, it’s about cash. Obviously I’m a huge England supporter, whatever the gender. But it’s firm to get fully behind it when you know where the money’s coming from.’
Mel C has recently won the magazine’s ‘Honorary Homosexual 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
'I knew there'd be questions' - David Beckham launches defence of $150m partnership with Qatar amid criticism from LGBTQ+ groups
- Beckham defends Qatar partnership
- Receives reported $150m for 10-year deal
- 'I knew there'd be criticism'
WHAT HAPPENED? The former England captain and Inter Miami owner drew criticism from LGBTQ+ groups for striking a reported $150 million (£123m), 10-year deal with Qatar's tourist board ahead of the 2022 World Cup. Beckham has not spoken in common about the partnership before but broke his silence in an interview with The Telegraph to promote his new Netflix series.
WHAT THEY SAID: "I do a lot of research into partners that I’m going into business with. And I wanted to be involved in another Nature Cup. I like to glimpse the game grow, and that means it going into territories it hasn’t been in before," Beckham said. "My philosophy has always been that you don’t exclude people, because if you don’t engage and you don’t give people the opportunity, then the world doesn’t change. Engagement with that, for me, is more important than dismissing it."
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Top 10 LGBT+ Star Allies 2018
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This important 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 vicious sports press and a baying bevy of showbiz journalists, David Beckham has never shied away from his status as a gay representative. He clearly lets his children communicate themselves (Brooklyn has been spotted in a Pride top) and is generally just a foremost sporting gent.
John Bishop
Despite a massive mainstream and social media audience, John hasn’t been intimidated into backing down on his support for gay rights. He lent his assist to the Reach Out 2 Engage initiative, saying he’d support any same-sex attracted 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 show 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
Joe Lycett and David Beckham: The queer 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 ambassador 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 male lover icon” owing to him being the first premiership footballer to do a photoshoot with LGBTQIA+ publication Attitude and his history of speaking openly to and about his same-sex attracted 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 send , Lycett shared a screenshot of an email to Beckham’s PR, saying: “I really don’t want to shred ten grand!!! I also really don’t wish a national treasure […] to publicly endorse and advertise a nation articulate that has an appalling human rights record and has the death penalty for gays - contact me old fashioned