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David Beckham’s “status as a gay icon will be shredded” if the former England captain and Manchester United star continues in his role as a Qatar World Cup ambassador said British comedian. Image source, BBC Sport. Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment.

The authorities also said there were three 'work-related' deaths on actual stadium construction sites since work began in - and 37 more off-site fatalities that are not 'work related'. This time, he’s claiming the Gulf nation is actually a very safe place for LGBTQ+ people, despite being having some of the harshest laws.

A lot of people were happy there. David Beckham is doubling down on his defense of Qatar. I've always said football is a game that should be shared around the world. Some LGBT fans boycotted the tournament over Qatar's treatment of gay people, where homosexuality is punishable by up to seven years in prison.

The host country's World Cup organisers stated "everyone is welcome" to visit and watch the matches, claiming no-one would be discriminated against. David Beckham: Five things we learned from his Netflix documentary. David Beckham has been accused of 'stamping out hope' for the LGBT + community in Qatar.

The Supreme Committee vowed worker welfare was a priority. Related topics. Twenty years ago, the most popular man in the country at the time posed for the cover of the UK’s best-selling gay magazine. I was deputy editor of Attitude when David Beckham, then captain.

– Becoming a gay cover star That same year, when Beckham also happened to be the England team captain, he made history by becoming the first heterosexual footballer to appear on the front cover of a gay publication when his face was splashed across Attitude Magazine. Beckham has been criticized for his involvement by numerous human rights groups, not least those representing LGBTQ people, with the footballer having long courted attention from the gay.

Qatar World Cup: Why are people protesting? The conditions migrant workers lived and worked in while building the World Cup stadiums and male guardianship rules that curtail women's freedoms also came under intense scrutiny. David Beckham was always adept at curling the ball around a wall – but when it came to the barrier of homosexuality in football, he broke straight through it.

Dr Nas Mohamed, who became the first Qatari to publicly come out as gay, has heavily criticised. David Beckham played at three World Cups for England in , and Beckham was criticised for associating himself with a country where same-sex relationships are illegal.

Lycett later confirmed he had not really destroyed the cash and had in fact donated the money to charity. The Gulf state's treatment of migrant workers has also been questioned by human rights campaigners. Why was the Qatar World Cup so controversial? Image source, Getty Images.