Dr. Nasser “Nas” Mohamed is said to be the first gay Qatari to e out publicly. He did to raise awarens about the existence and mistreatment of LGBTQ people Qatar before the 2022 FIFA World Cup. “Our voic and our journeys matter,” he says.
Contents:
- GAY MAN OM QATAR SOUNDS ALARM ABOUT VERAGE OF THE WORLD CUP AND LGBT OPPRSN
- OPN: DR. NASSER ‘NAS’ MOHAMED SOUGHT ASYLUM THE US AFTER G OUT AS GAY. HERE’S WHAT HE WANTS PEOPLE TO KNOW ABOUT QATAR
- ‘I FEEL GAY, DISABLED … LIKE A WOMAN TOO!’: INFANTO MAK BIZARRE ATTACK ON CRICS
- BEG GAY IS 'DAMAGE THE MD', QATAR WORLD CUP AMBASSADOR SAYS
GAY MAN OM QATAR SOUNDS ALARM ABOUT VERAGE OF THE WORLD CUP AND LGBT OPPRSN
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This year of the FIFA World Cup, I am speakg up agast homophobia and I thk we all should too. It was durg a trip to the Uned Stat 2010 when I really e to terms wh the fact that I am gay – that I uld choose to not get married to a woman back home and be happy the USA.
In 2015, I moved to San Francis and filed for polil asylum as I was aaid to return to Qatar as I ntued to e out as a gay man. Nasser “Nas” Mohamed appeared The Inpennt and on the BBC, where he beme what many lled the first Qatari to e out publicly as gay. Based on the terpretatn of the law Qatar, the way is wrten, technilly allows punishment up to the ath penalty for homosexual relatnships between men, based on Sharia law.
OPN: DR. NASSER ‘NAS’ MOHAMED SOUGHT ASYLUM THE US AFTER G OUT AS GAY. HERE’S WHAT HE WANTS PEOPLE TO KNOW ABOUT QATAR
When did you accept or fully unrstand that you were gay? My beg gay sunk , of all plac, Las Vegas. I looked up same-sex attractn and saw the terms “gay” and “homosexual.
” I began readg all about the topic and need to know if I was gay. So, I found a gay club on the strip. And then through that work, I got to learn about some of the gay people that were still livg Qatar.
The existg nversatn was about whether gay fans were gog to be OK durg the 28 days of the tournament. And so did other gay Qatari refuge who’d taken asylum the UK, Canada and across the US.
‘I FEEL GAY, DISABLED … LIKE A WOMAN TOO!’: INFANTO MAK BIZARRE ATTACK ON CRICS
Photograph: Caspar BensonInfanto also played down ncerns over whether LGBTQ+ fans faced danger a untry where gay people risk torture and imprisonment, and sisted that Qatar – wh Fifa’s help – had reformed workers’ rights beyond all speech began, though, wh Infanto appearg to suggt that his own experienc as a son of Italian immigrants Swzerland gave him a ep unrstandg of migrant workers and other mori Qatar.
BEG GAY IS 'DAMAGE THE MD', QATAR WORLD CUP AMBASSADOR SAYS
Today I feel gay. ”He add: “Of urse I am not Qatari, I am not an Arab, I am not Ain, I am not gay, I am not disabled. “You want to stay at home and say how bad they are, the Arabs, the Mlims, bee ’s not allowed to be publicly gay.
Swanson, a former Sky Sports reporter, said: “I am stg here as a gay man Qatar.