Iker Casillas stars in the controversy of the last 24 hours after posting a controversial message on social networks: “I hope they respect me: I’m gay.” his partner, Carles Puyol, took the opportunity to continue the joke: “It’s time to tell about us, Iker”. Both footballers were highly criticized in networks and immediately backed down, although in different ways: while The man from Madrid claimed that his account had been hackedthe Catalan openly apologized for what he considered “a clumsy joke”.
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Twenty-four hours later, many familiar faces have commented on what happened and have not been too benevolent with either of them, especially with Sara Carbonero’s ex. the huddle of Save me has questioned Casillas’ argument, which they describe as a “cheap excuse to get out of trouble, because it takes weeks to recover a hacked account.” Jorge Javier Vazquez has been one of the most critical of what happened: “You can not joke or frivolize with this topic.”
Hacked account. Luckily everything in order. Apologies to all my followers. And of course, more apologies to the LGBT community. ????
– Iker Casillas (@IkerCasillas) October 9, 2022
The journalist, who has confessed on other occasions to have suffered a lot due to his condition, has reported: “Those of us who are gay have very normalized insults, but if a study were made of how many insults we receive throughout our lives for being gay, it would be a brutal thing…”, has counted. “Of course we have made progress, but Spain is not just Madrid or Barcelona, because many adolescents write to me on my networks using sexuality as an insult, but insults that I have not heard for thirty years.”
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