Contents:
- FIFA CELEBRAT PRI, MONTHS BEFORE HOLDG WORLD CUP WHERE BEG GAY IS ILLEGAL
- GAY FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO WOULD BE ‘SRED’ TO PLAY AT WORLD CUP QATAR
FIFA CELEBRAT PRI, MONTHS BEFORE HOLDG WORLD CUP WHERE BEG GAY IS ILLEGAL
Former Brish Prime Mister David Cameron sisted there was "no place for homophobia" durg a 2011 speech urgg Qatar to improve s human rights rerd, while David Beckham beg an ambassador for the tournament was met wh some backlash.
Back 2015, Uned Stat ternatnal Robbie Rogers - at the time the world's only known openly gay profsnal footballer - sisted he did not have plans to boytt the tournament.
However, Atralian pro Josh Cavallo - the only known active top-flight footballer to e out as gay - last year exprsed his ncern about the laws Qatar. “It don’t matter if you’re lbian, if you’re gay, ’s for everyone. Homosexualy Qatar is illegal and punishable by up to three years prison.
GAY FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO WOULD BE ‘SRED’ TO PLAY AT WORLD CUP QATAR
But there have been mixed msag wh a World Cup ambassador and former footballer Khalid Salman sayg earlier this month that homosexualy was “damage the md, ” an terview wh German broadster ZDF. He is a regular at England ternatnals and was once the victim of a homophobic asslt, he says, at Wembley four years ago, ahead of England’s match agast Spa 2018, when he had an altertn wh another fan. Qatari law crimaliz sex outsi marriage, cludg gay sex.
In the terpretatn of Sharia law that Qatar follows, sex outsi of marriage, cludg homosexualy, is punishable by jail time and, as a maximum sentence, ath by stong, though there isn’t available evince that such a punishment has ever been ed. Nasser Mohamed, a gay Qatari livg exile the US, explaed to Vox.
So ’s really hard to build a gay muny. Mohamed left Qatar his 20s for medil school “wh the tentn of never g back” bee of the limed life he led as a gay man there. Though there are small pockets of LGBTQ people Qatar, there’s not a gay scene, Mohamed said.