▲ The previous captain of Bayern Munich and the German nationwide group induced controversy with the publication of his guide, the place he asks homosexual footballers not to come out of the closet, to keep away from harassment and mock. Picture @Phillip Lahm
Erendira Palma Hernandez
La Jornada newspaper
Saturday, February 27, 2021, p. 9
Héctor Miguel Salinas, physician in political and social sciences from the Nationwide Autonomous College of Mexico, indicated that the advice of Phillip Lahm, former captain of the Germany group, to gay gamers not to make their preferences public is a backward argument that avoids social change.
He identified that if we await society to be prepared, it’s going to by no means occur, it should be pushed and primarily based on a concrete actuality of sure teams, which demand their rights, adjustments should be generated.
He asserted {that a} society is by no means prepared for change, however Martin Luther King didn’t wait to confront racism, nor did the suffragettes wait for his or her husbands to be prepared to acknowledge their rights.
Lahm sparked controversy a couple of days in the past when a fraction of his guide was revealed the place he really helpful homosexual footballers not to come out of the closet by making certain that they might turn into the goal of assaults and harassment.
Salinas, additionally the writer of the guide Ehhh Puto, recalled that when making an attempt to approve the best of adoption for homoparental households, conservative teams instructed us that the youngsters of gay kids can be harassed and discriminated in opposition to.
Nonetheless, we answered that then the actual concern that should be had is to change society, which tends to discriminate in opposition to variety.
Nonetheless, Salinas thought-about that it is nonetheless unlikely that an elite participant brazenly declares himself homosexual due to the load of the sponsorships and the worry of ridicule by the followers or a few of his teammates.
“Lahm speaks from the angle of somebody who doesn’t undergo from hiding or pretending on a regular basis, however doesn’t know that being within the closet additionally has a really robust value with psychological and emotional repercussions.
There is a really robust problematic circle. On the one hand there is an emotional want for an individual not to reside in darkness, it is one in every of their rights, however however there is the financial subject of sponsorships and the homophobia of the stands, he lamented.
To interrupt this circle, it is vital for pioneering folks to make homosexuality seen. There are already brazenly homosexual gamers in hockey and different disciplines, however soccer has extra affect, it is essentially the most watched and practiced sport on the earth, as well as to being immersed in a hypermasculinity.
Returning to Lahm’s phrases, he in contrast it with the place of goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, head of the consultant of Germany and who has expressed his assist with the LGBTTTIQ teams whom he has inspired to make their preferences public.
Neuer skillfully mentioned: exit collectively, as a result of if just one comes out, they’ll solely pay dearly, but when there are a lot of and a number of other are high quality gamers, society can have to settle for them as a actuality.
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