Yes! We went through this 4 years ago in Moscow. I helped organize a boycott then of Budweiser USA, pointing out the incoherence of their sponsorship of the FIFA World Cup in a nation where speaking up about LGBTQ issues is illegal, and where gay men in the Chechnya region were being rounded up, tortured, and often killed.

I say incoherent because Budweiser USA were simultaneously sponsoring the Pride parade in New York City.

We didn't accomplish much other than to get Budweiser to stop their daily tweets about the World Cup. We were able to shut that down, but we had absolutely no success getting FIFA to change their mind about holding the championship in Qatar, another nation led by brutally violent, homophobic men.

When the young FIFA star Josh Caballo came out as gay and said he'd be afraid to play in Qatar, that he resented being forced into that position, precisely nobody in FIFA leadership gave a shit. Josh told me privately that he couldn't even get his phone calls returned. He was generically assured he'd be okay, and told to be quiet.

Olympic diver Tom Daley is urging a boycott of the FIFA World Cup this year. When I interviewed former Olympic great Greg Louganis a couple weeks ago, he didn't urge a boycott, but he condemned FIFA's choice of Qatar in very strong language. He finds it shocking and unacceptable, and so do I.

LGBTQ people like Josh, Tom, and Greg are common in the ranks of elite athletes, if just beginning to feel empowered to come out of the closet. Forcing them to compete in a nation where their open existence is a crime is unacceptable.

We should be treating nations that imprison or execute gay people as pariah states.

We should not be handing them lucrative contracts that aid their economies and bolster their international reputations.

That's just common sense, but clearly the vastly wealthy and often financially corrupt men who run FIFA lack common understandings of morality, not to mention basic human decency.