How Brazil’s first openly gay soccer referees changed the game.

July 14, 2018 compassq 5 THINGS TO KNOW, HEROES, LIFESTYLES, SPORTS Comments Off on How Brazil’s first openly gay soccer referees changed the game.
Jorge José Emiliano dos Santos, photographed in 1992. ALEXANDRE SANT’ANNA/ABRIL COMUNICAÇÕES S.A.

The man known as Margarida refused to let prejudice affect his flashy officiating style.

EVERY FOUR YEARS, AS THE FIFA World Cup approaches, a video emerges from the dusty threads of soccer fandom and circulates across social media platforms. The 2014 video is a pixelated compilation of a soccer (or football, depending on where you live)…