JAKARTA - Football legend David Beckham has reportedly signed a contract with Qatar for 10 million pounds. Later, Beckham will be the ambassador for Qatar ahead of the 2022 World Cup.
But this news was not responded to well by fans. The reason is, the history of LGBT people in the country of Qatar can make relations with David Beckham worse.
In 2007, David Beckham was dubbed a gay icon because of his close ties with the LGBT community. Through an interview with GQ, this husband of Victoria Adams admitted that the nickname was an honor for him.
Meanwhile, Qatar is known as the second most assertive country towards the LGBT community. They consider homosexuality illegal and will be jailed and tortured.
Then fans are wondering, has Beckham removed the nickname gay icon in order to cooperate with Qatar?
Qatar itself allows the LGBT flag to be installed during the World Cup, but not a few are asking whether they should accept their community first.
On the other hand, netizens said David Beckham sold his support for money even though he was known as a wealthy businessman.
"Gay icon David Beckham will be the face of Qatar. Does he know being gay is punishable by torture or death or does he not care as long as he has Qatari money?", wrote a netizen on Twitter.
"Hey gay icon David Beckham, when you received $ 14 million from Qatar, could you ask them to stop convicting people for being gay and threatening them with murder? Thank you".
