Overview
- Lumen Field will host the Group G match on Pride Weekend Friday as part of Seattle’s six World Cup games.
- Seattle’s host committee has designated the fixture as the city’s Pride Match, aligning it with inclusion and human-rights legacy goals.
- Organizers say the Pride initiative is locally led, with an advisory group and artwork contest, and not affiliated with FIFA.
- Iran explicitly criminalizes same-sex relations with punishments that can include imprisonment or death, while Egypt prosecutes LGBTQ people under broad morality and debauchery laws.
- Public response ranges from supportive messages by Eric Wahl welcoming LGBTQ fans to concerns from local commentators about messaging, with no option to change the match date.