Volleyball star Douglas Souza and his boyfriend held for five hours by homophobic airport officials
A post shared by Douglas Souza (@douglasouza)Out pro volleyball player and Olympic champion Douglas Souza is using his massive social media platform to share about the homophobia he and his boyfriend, Gabriel, recently experienced at an airport in Europe.In his Instagram stories yesterday, the 26-year-old explained that they were passing through the Netherlands on their way to Italy when a customs and immigration official seemed to take issue with the fact that they were a gay couple.“I won’t go into too much detail because I don’t want to carry this energy, but I’ll tell it more or less,” he explained. “Basically, it was me and my boyfriend, we took a flight from São Paulo to Amsterdam and there we had to go through passport control to go.
