Seville (EFE).- The Betis soccer player Borja Iglesias has made a tweet in defense of homosexuals, which he has released this Monday, in which he declares himself “heterosexual” and pretends that this announcement causes great social repercussions, to conclude with the phrase: “That this would never happen…, and why the other would”.
The tweet begins with the player’s statement (Santiago de Compostela, 1993) in which he states, “Hello, I’m Borja and I’m heterosexual”, and also inserts the fact that “in 2022 the number of attacks against sexual orientation will it has increased by 70%”, to which is added: “They don’t attack me for being heterosexual. For this reason, more than ever, #muchoorgullo”.
A couple of weeks ago, the winger Aitor Ruibal and Borja Iglesias himself denounced through social networks having received homophobic insults for their outfits at a wedding they attended in Seville.
“After the frustrated attempts by a noisy minority to ridicule my partner Borja Iglesias and me, in reference to our clothing as well as its supposed link to our sexual orientation,” Ruibal stressed “the importance of maintaining respect for any person , regardless of their sexual orientation or of any kind”.
Borja Iglesias condemns homophobia
On his twitter account, the Verdiblanco midfielder then advocated “the need, once and for all, to normalize and live together, rejecting and moving away from any type of phobia, to make it possible to live normally in our society” and He condemned “the homophobia that obviously continues to exist to a greater or lesser extent.”
“Those who at this point continue to display behavior of this type urgently need help. They have the problem because of their intolerance and their complexes” assured the Catalan interior, who was seconded by Borja Iglesias on the same social network with a “bravo, brother”.
For the Betic striker, for his part, “every time these types of situations occur in reference to the phobias that still exist”, they give him “strength to continue fighting so that each one does and enjoys himself and the others as he wishes the real one wins ”, he published in his day.
“And to those of you who are still in prehistory I send you a lot of encouragement, it has to be very difficult not to evolve and continue to condition yourself instead of enjoying how precious life is”, stressed the ‘Panda’ after what was raised ago two weeks after the aforementioned wedding that he attended.