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- GAY FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO SAYS HE WOULD BE ‘SRED’ TO PLAY AT THE 2022 WORLD CUP QATAR
- GAY PEOPLE LIVG UNR RADAR QATAR PREPARE WARILY FOR WORLD CUP
- EL MIEDO L FUTBOLISTA GAY POR IR A QATAR 2022: «¿QUIERO QUE MI VIDA Té EN PELIGRO?»
- JOSH CAVALLO, FUTBOLISTA ABIERTAMENTE GAY, TIENE MIEDO IR A QATAR 2022 N ATRALIA
- ¿PúBLI GAY EN EL MUNDIAL QATAR? Sí, SI LOS FANS "RPETAN" Y NO HAY MUTRAS AFECTO
GAY FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO SAYS HE WOULD BE ‘SRED’ TO PLAY AT THE 2022 WORLD CUP QATAR
After beg the only current, openly gay player men’s top-flight football last month, Josh Cavallo says a new terview wh the Guardian that he would be “sred” to play at the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar bee of the untry’s homosexualy laws. * futbolistas gay qatar 2022 *
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GAY PEOPLE LIVG UNR RADAR QATAR PREPARE WARILY FOR WORLD CUP
* futbolistas gay qatar 2022 *
After beg the only current, openly gay player men’s top-flight football last month, Josh Cavallo says a new terview wh the Guardian that he would be “sred” to play at the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar bee of the untry’s homosexualy laws. Cavallo, who plays for Alai Uned Atralia’s A-League, received wispread support om the football muny and beyond when he announced on social media that he is gay, cludg om Barcelona fenr Gerard Piqué, Atléti Madrid forward Antoe Griezmann and Liverpool midfielr Jordan Henrson. The 21-year-old has now voiced his ncerns about next year’s World Cup Qatar, where homosexualy is illegal and punishable by up to three years prison.
“I read somethg along the l of giv a ath penalty for gay people Qatar. He add: “One of the greatt achievements as a profsnal footballer is to play for your untry and to know that [the World Cup] is a untry that don’t support gay people and puts at risk of our own life, that do sre me and that do me make re-evaluate. Acrdg to a report to state-sponsored homophobia by Lus Ramón Mendos of the human rights group ILGA World, Qatar “ns Sharia urts, where technilly is possible that Mlim men uld be put to ath for same-sex sexual behavurs.
“Not havg anyone to look up to and to see okay, they’re playg football and they’re gay and they’re havg a succsful reer – that is somethg that sred me and somethg that I was worried that if I was to potentially e out one day, would affect my reer a bad way?
EL MIEDO L FUTBOLISTA GAY POR IR A QATAR 2022: «¿QUIERO QUE MI VIDA Té EN PELIGRO?»
REUTERS/Fabriz Bensch/ Acquire Licensg RightsDOHA, Nov 19 (Rters) - A group of Arab iends livg Qatar's pal Doha met up over cktails and snacks last week, exchangg opns as they flicked through profil of gay men on datg apps Tr and phone of one flashed wh a msage om a suor around the rner. The man his 20s leapt up om the table, leavg to meet his date iends, who met up days before the soccer World Cup kicks off Qatar on Sunday, are part of a Doha gay scene that's managg to fly unr the radar a natn where same-sex relatns are illegal and punishable by up to three years of jail-time.
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JOSH CAVALLO, FUTBOLISTA ABIERTAMENTE GAY, TIENE MIEDO IR A QATAR 2022 N ATRALIA
"The men prent jt one snapshot of life for gay people the Gulf natn - and the four regnise their relative eedoms are a product of privilege; they n afford to live alone, host parti and meet partners high-end rtrants or nightclubs, where the strict l of Qatari society are often more 's not like that for members of Qatar's LGBT muny have reported beg taed, some as recently as September, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said.
A Qatari official cricised the HRW report as ntag false rmatn and said the untry do not license or operate nversn Mohamed, a gay Qatari physician who has lived the Uned Stat for about a , weled the attentn the tournament has drawn to Qatar's rights rerd, sayg prompted him to speak out wily about his sexualy. 9 ln populatn, wh the rt foreign workers, rangg om low-e nstctn workers to high-powered four men terviewed by Rters said that there were strong fancial and reer centiv to ridg the untry, addg that life for gay people there was better than some other plac the Middle ced Sdi Arabia and Iran, where men have been sentenced to ath for beg gay..
I know gay men workers' mps wouldn't be able to live the same way. "Qatari anisers of the World Cup have warned visors agast public displays of affectn but say that everyone, no matter their sexual orientatn or background, is wele at the the tournament, medil practners will not ask patients about their extramaral sex, relign or any other stat, acrdg to the Yoef Al Maslamani, the healthre spokperson for the FIFA World the 12 years sce Qatar was named host of the 2022 tournament, the untry has faced tensifyg cricism over s rights rerd on laborers, women and the LGBT furore has been fuelled by ments om public figur cludg former Qatar player and World Cup ambassador Khalid Salman who told a German broadster that homosexualy was "damage the md". Josh Cavallo, futbolista l Alai Uned, claró en octubre 2021 su homosexualidad públimente.
¿PúBLI GAY EN EL MUNDIAL QATAR? Sí, SI LOS FANS "RPETAN" Y NO HAY MUTRAS AFECTO
El straliano, lateral zurdo, ha ncedido una entrevista a Sky Sports en la que habla su sueño formar parte la lista su selección para el Mundial Qatar, pero nfia su miedo por entrar en el país al ser gay.
», enta Cavallo al ser preguntado sobre las ley y la discrimación que las personas homosexual viven en straliano nsira que él podría ser rpetado al ser jugador, pero va un paso más allá en la reivdición: «Me gtaría fivamente ir a la Copa l Mundo, sí. S embargo, también advirtió en la misma entrevista: «La homosexualidad no tá permida.