TIME speaks to Dr. Naser Mohamed, the first and currently only Qatari to publicly e out as gay, ahead of the World Cup.
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- DOHA - GAY LIFE - DOHA FOM
- GAY LIFE QATAR
- 5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)
- BEG GAY DOHA
- GAY BARS NEAR ME
- QATAR GAY
- EVERYONE WELE? GAY FOOTBALL FANS PREPARE FOR QATAR
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I am a gay male planng on visg Doha around the end of the year for 2 weeks. I was hopg to get some on where I n fd iends to hang out wh that are gay.
Not necsarily a bar bee i know Qatar don't have gay bars, but jt a place that is unofficially a gay hang out place. Much like other small Gulf Stat the Arabian pensula fdg recent and -pth stori about gay life is not easy.
The biggt public kerfluffle about homosexualy Qatar recent years has not ncerned any gay executns, wch hunts, persecutn or mands for gay marriage.
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Completely overlookg the social impact of such a huge ternatnal event such a ty Islamic place as Qatar FIFA got self to hot water om human rights anizatns as well as gay rights associatns. Very few are prepared to sudnly surrenr their sexual inty and stop beg gay for a week. However, homosexualy is illegal Qatar and n be punished wh lash and jail, which offends the progrsive agenda of rights groups the Wt.
It is unavoidable that a clash of cultur will occur; a llisn of east-vers-wt agast Qatar’s tightly bound sexual and social standards, both straight and gay. The UK gay football group, The Jt Campaign, as well as activist John Ameechi, said was eply ncerned: “spe their apparent mment to humanarian valu and the promotn of global solidary through football, FIFA is sendg out a msage loud and clear that the rights of the global LGBT muny do not even register on their agenda… Sport should never be allowed to tmp human rights. Some have lled upon Qatar to crimalize homosexualy by 2022.
) by subsequent ments by the FIFA Print Sepp Blatter who tried to mimize the ncerns of the gay football fans worldwi by sayg that gays, to avoid trouble, should simply not have sex while Qatar: “homosexual fans should rea om any sexual activi that are illegal Qatar”.
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In Febary 2011, UK PM Cameron was asked about awardg the World Cup to a homophobic untry that crimaliz homosexualy. Simply put, if a foreigner wants to be openly gay Qatar his life will be very difficult (if not impossible). If they are gog to be gay private should not provoke any reactn.
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However, even if a gay person is most and discreet he (unlikely she) may be targeted by foul-md lol Qatari men for any number of reasons such as blackmail, money, sexual abe or relig enmy. For foreigners, beg sgle over the age of 30 is a spic cue; drsg wh some fashn, beg well groomed, sg at others, beg gentle and pole n be nsted as gay tras. In the mid-2000’s a Fnish gay man was sced and eventually entrapped by a “geo” Qatari man who at first offered him alhol then hashish and eventually sex–“many tim”.
One eveng another geo guy showed up wh him and thgs got out of hand and the expat found himself arrted–bee he was gay? Later I got to know that the police were all the time behd him, dictatg his actns, so I thk was bee of my gay orientatn I was arrted.
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That’s how much they hate –and not jt bee of gay sexualy; they envy and hate our eedom. This mentary me om a rear of Gay Middle East Qatar about the lack of social support and absence of a gay muny. There are no gay plac here, except one, and my opn, we n’t say that ’s really gay bee ’s the only place where guys n enter whout girls, and a lot of straight guys go there as well.
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Another big difference here is the lack of gay relatnships. And ’s not only love relatnships, but iendships are also rare Qatar among gays.
“In Jordan, I knew many people and 90% of my iends were gay, but here, after a long time, I have succeed fdg only one gay iend whom I have met and stayed touch wh by the phone. I thk that the the reason for this is the lack of gay plac Qatar.
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I’m sure that if there were a gay fe and everyone went there every week, the bond between guys here would be stronger.