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118 W. Va. L. Rev. 95 (2015-2016)
World Cup Dreaming: Sporting Activism and the Incrementalist Advancement of Sexual Equality through Association Football

handle is hein.journals/wvb118 and id is 103 raw text is: WORLD CUP DREAMING: SPORTING ACTIVISM AND THE INCREMENTALIST ADVANCEMENT OF SEXUAL EQUALITY THROUGH ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL Richard J. Peltz-Steele* Jose A. Benavidest I. INTRODUCTION....................................96 II. INTERNATIONAL SPORT AND LAWS THAT CONDEMN HOMOSEXUALITY: FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE ............ ................97 III. INTERNATIONAL SPORTING ORGANIZATION AND ACTIVISM: THE NAME Is FOOTBALL, ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL ..................104 A. Governance and Commercialization of the Global Game............. 104 B. FIFA and Its Host Nations ........................... 107 C. FIFA the Activist.................................. 113 IV. INCREMENTALISM AND LGBT RIGHTS: STIRRED, NOT SHAKEN..........120 A. Incrementalism and the Triumph of Successive Limited Comparisons .......................................... 121 B. Incrementalism Refined with Stratagems in Policy and Law ........ 124 C. Incrementalism and Marriage Equality........... ............. 128 V. FIFA AND LGBT RIGHTS: I DIDN'T RECOGNIZE YOU WITH YOUR CLOTHES ON ...........................................1 31 A. IC, FIFA, and Anti-Gay Law ................... ..... 131 B. FIFA Economic Rationalism and Social Responsibility................ 135 C. Incrementalist Activism Through FIFA ............ ....... 138 1. Incrementalism and the Six Stratagems ........... .....139 2. Incrementalism as a Non-Exclusive Solution ...... ....... 143 VI. CONCLUSION: THE WORLD Is NOT ENOUGH .................... 144 * Professor, University of Massachusetts Law School. Mr. Benavides and I are indebted to more people than we will name, who aided our pursuit of this thesis. Among them, Misty N. Peltz-Steele, M.L.I.S, J.D., and Emma Wood, M.L.S., provided invaluable research assistance. Professor Jeremiah Ho, while a so-called assistant professor, has been a mentor and inspiration to us both. We thank him for having conducted a sanity check of this Article and conclude accordingly that we can be no crazier than he is. The University of Massachusetts Law School provided a research grant in support of this work. And for preparing and publishing this Article, we are grateful to the editors of the West Virginia Law Review, who share our twin passions for justice and the beautiful game. t Attorney, Funk & Associates, Austin, Texas. 95

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