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Amid the distraction of FIFA threatening European players with yellow cards if they wore One Love armbands was the extraordinary bravery of a team whose protest went far beyond the risk of a yellow card
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āIs it brave to talk about stuff nobody in my profession talks about? No, I donāt think it isā¦.It shouldnāt matter what people areā¦. Thatās the way I am, itās the way I was brought up and itās the way Iāll always be.ā
Thus spoke David Beckham about being an ally to queerness in an interview with Attitude, the gay menās lifestyle mag, in 2002, quite some time before rainbow laces and One Love armbands.Ā
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