Soccer ref proposed to his boyfriend in heartwarming viral moment. Then he got attacked. - LGBTQ Nation
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Soccer ref proposed to his boyfriend in heartwarming viral moment. Then he got attacked. - LGBTQ Nation
"HE SAID YES! 🌈💍 The moment queer football fan Pascal proposed to his boyfriend before a Bundesliga game. Pascal Kaiser came out three years ago. He is also an Amateur referee and a huge fan of Bundesliga side Cologne. pic.twitter.com/fx3FdfTIw2- DW Sports (@dw_sports) February 2, 2026"
"The police intervened after the attack, and Pascal Kaiser is now in a safe place under police protection." "The message is terrible: if you come out, we'll beat you into the closet," she wrote in an Instagram post. She said that Kaiser had been getting "explicit threats that revealed the exact address of his home."
Pascal Kaiser, an amateur German soccer referee and Cologne fan who came out three years ago, proposed to his boyfriend Moritz at a Wolfsburg-Cologne Bundesliga match in front of about 50,000 spectators. A video of the proposal went viral with many positive comments and many hostile messages. Kaiser received threatening messages online that included his home address and reported them to police, who initially judged there was no immediate danger. Twenty minutes after calling police he went outside to smoke and three men beat him, injuring his right eye. Police intervened and Kaiser is under protection.
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