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• GAY MAN OM QATAR SOUNDS ALARM ABOUT VERAGE OF THE WORLD CUP AND LGBT OPPRSN
• GAY MP SAYS ‘QATAR WORLD CUP IS NOT SAFE FOR PEOPLE LIKE ME’
• THIS GAY SPORTS MISTER STOOD UP TO QATAR AND FIFA AND WORE RABOWS AT THE WORLD CUP
• GAY MAN 'HUNTED' BY QATAR POLICE AND GANG-RAPED HOTEL ROOM AHEAD OF WORLD CUP
• WORLD CUP QATAR NOT SAFE FOR SOMEONE LIKE ME, SAYS GAY MP
• GUERNSEY PRSHOMENEWSSPORTWEATHERSERVICPODSTSNEWSALL NEWS CORONAVISBSPOLICSNEWS OM THE ISLANDSTRAVELVOICEDUTNCAMPAIGNSFEATURMORE PROPERTYUK NEWSWORLD NEWSVIRAL NEWSMOTORSWORLD CUP QATAR NOT SAFE FOR SOMEONE LIKE ME, SAYS GAY MPUK NEWSPUBLISHED: NOV 8, 2022LAST UPDATED: NOV 8, 2022HOMOSEXUALY IS ILLEGAL QATAR AND ANYONE FOUND PARTICIPATG SAME-SEX SEXUAL ACTIVY N BE PUNISHED BY UP TO SEVEN YEARS PRISON.SUBSCRIBE TO OUR DAILY NEWSLETTER!SIGN UPA GAY MP HAS WARNED IS “NOT SAFE” FOR LGBT+ SUPPORTERS TO TRAVEL TO THE WORLD CUP QATAR.LABOUR’S LE POLLARD ALSO URGED FOREIGN SECRETARY JAM CLEVERLY TO APOLOGISE FOR MENTS WHICH “FORCE LGBT PEOPLE BACK TO THE CLOSET”.MR CLEVERLY PREVLY ADVISED LGBT+ FOOTBALL FANS HEADG TO THE FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT TO SHOW “A LTLE B OF FLEX AND PROMISE” AND TO “RPECT THE CULTURE OF YOUR HOST NATN”.HOMOSEXUALY IS ILLEGAL QATAR AND ANYONE FOUND PARTICIPATG SAME-SEX SEXUAL ACTIVY N BE PUNISHED BY UP TO SEVEN YEARS PRISON.THE TOURNAMENT KICKS OFF ON SUNDAY NOVEMBER 20, WH ENGLAND AND WAL GROUP B.SPEAKG THE COMMONS, FOREIGN OFFICE MISTER DAVID RUTLEY SAID: “MISTERS AND SENR OFFICIALS HAVE RAISED THE NCERNS OF LGBT+ VISORS WH QATARI THORI AT ALL LEVELS AND WILL NTUE TO ENGAGE ON THIS ISSUE AHEAD OF AND DURG THE WORLD CUP.“QATAR HAS REPEATEDLY MTED THAT EVERYBODY IS WELE TO THE TOURNAMENT AND WE WILL NTUE TO ENURAGE EQUAL TREATMENT AND THE RPECT OF DIVIDUAL RIGHTS, AND INTIFY WHAT ACTN THE QATARI THORI ARE TAKG TO MATCH THEIR MMENT.”MR POLLARD, THE MP FOR PLYMOUTH SUTTON AND DEVONPORT, SAID: “I CLARE AN TERT AS A MASSIVE GAY, BUT AS AN ENGLAND-SUPPORTG HOMOSEXUAL IS NOT SAFE FOR SOMEONE LIKE ME TO WATCH THE WORLD CUP QATAR.“BEE OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS AB OF MIGRANT WORKERS AND QATAR’S LGBT POPULATN I PERSONALLY DON’T THK QATAR SHOULD EVER HAVE BEEN AWARD A MAJOR SPORTG PETN.“WILL THE MISTER BACK THE HOME NATNS’ PTAS WEARG A RABOW ARMBAND WHEN THEY PLAY AT THE WORLD CUP?”ENGLAND’S HARRY KANE HAS SAID HE WILL WEAR A RABOW PTA’S ARMBAND DURG THE WORLD CUP (PA)MR RUTLEY REPLIED: “I RPECT (MR POLLARD’S) MENTS AND HE AND I HAVE WORKED TOGETHER ON MANY ISSU THE PAST AND I UNRSTAND HIS MPAIGNS ON THIS ISSUE.“OUR PRRY IS, OF URSE, THE SAFETY OF ALL BRISH NATNALS WHO WILL BE TRAVELLG TO THE WORLD CUP.“LGBT+ RIGHTS IS AN ISSUE THE UK PRRIS TERNATNALLY AND WE NTUE TO ENGAGE WH THE QATAR THORI ON THIS ISSUE.“MANY SPORTSMEN AND WOMEN E THEIR PLATFORM TO DO IMPORTANT WORK ACROSS A RANGE OF ISSU, THAT’S THEIR PERSONAL CHOICE.“THE UK GOVERNMENT STANDS BY OUR VALU AND OUR TEAMS STAND BY THE VALU OF OUR HOME NATNS.”FORMER QATARI FOOTBALLER KHALID SALMAN TOLD A GERMAN PUBLIC BROADSTER THAT BEG GAY IS “HARAM”, OR FORBIDN ARABIC, AND THAT HE HAS A PROBLEM WH CHILDREN SEEG GAY PEOPLE.EXCERPTS OF THE TELEVISN TERVIEW WERE SHOWN ON MONDAY NIGHT ON ZDF.LABOUR’S SHADOW SPORTS MISTER JEFF SMH SAID THE ON WAS NOW ON THE WORLD CUP ANISERS TO NMN THE MENTS.“THEY NEED TO SAY THIS PERSON DON’T REPRENT , DON’T REPRENT THE ETHOS AND THE MANNER WHICH THE WORLD CUP IS MEANT TO BE N, AND SAY LGBT PEOPLE, ALONG WH ALL OTHER PEOPLE, ARE WELE,” HE TOLD BBC RAD 4’S WORLD AT ONE.APPEARG ON THE SAME PROGRAMME, ROBBIE SANTOS OM LGBT GROUP STONEWALL SAID HE WAS SURPRISED BUT NOT SHOCKED BY THE VIEWS.“IT IS SHOCKG TO HEAR SUCH MENTS THE N UP TO WHAT SHOULD BE AN ABSOLUTELY JOYO, CLIVE, GLOBAL CELEBRATN. SUCH A DIVISIVE MENT IS JT REALLY, REALLY HARD TO HEAR,” HE SAID.“I THK THAT THE TOURNAMENT IS GOG TO HAPPEN, PEOPLE ARE GOG TO WATCH , BUT IS GOG TO BE REALLY UNEASY FOR SO MANY PEOPLE TO WATCH A TOURNAMENT WHICH HAS JT BEEN MIRED SO MUCH NTROVERSY.”UK NEWSMOST READ
• EXPRS & STARHOMENEWSSPORTENTERTAMENTSERVICNOTIFITN SETTGSSUBSCRIBE TO ONE OR ALL NOTIFITN SOURC OM THIS ONE PLACE.NEWSLETTERSUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO GET THE DAY'S TOP STORI SENT DIRECTLY TO YOU.SIGN ME UPNEWSALL NEWS COST OF LIVGLOL HUBSCRIMEPOLICSHEALTHBSEDUTNVOICFEATURENVIRONMENTMORE UK NEWSNOSTALGIAPROPERTYTRANSPORTMOTORSWORLD NEWSVIRAL NEWSFEED A FAYSPONSORED ARTICLFD NEWS FOR YOUR TOWNWORLD CUP QATAR NOT SAFE FOR SOMEONE LIKE ME, SAYS GAY MPUK NEWSPUBLISHED: NOV 8, 2022LAST UPDATED: NOV 8, 2022HOMOSEXUALY IS ILLEGAL QATAR AND ANYONE FOUND PARTICIPATG SAME-SEX SEXUAL ACTIVY N BE PUNISHED BY UP TO SEVEN YEARS PRISON.SUBSCRIBE TO OUR DAILY NEWSLETTER!SIGN UPLE POLLARDA GAY MP HAS WARNED IS “NOT SAFE” FOR LGBT+ SUPPORTERS TO TRAVEL TO THE WORLD CUP QATAR.LABOUR’S LE POLLARD ALSO URGED FOREIGN SECRETARY JAM CLEVERLY TO APOLOGISE FOR MENTS WHICH “FORCE LGBT PEOPLE BACK TO THE CLOSET”.MR CLEVERLY PREVLY ADVISED LGBT+ FOOTBALL FANS HEADG TO THE FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT TO SHOW “A LTLE B OF FLEX AND PROMISE” AND TO “RPECT THE CULTURE OF YOUR HOST NATN”.HOMOSEXUALY IS ILLEGAL QATAR AND ANYONE FOUND PARTICIPATG SAME-SEX SEXUAL ACTIVY N BE PUNISHED BY UP TO SEVEN YEARS PRISON.FOREIGN OFFICE ADVICE NOT “ANY TIMACY BETWEEN PERSONS PUBLIC N BE NSIRED OFFENSIVE, REGARDLS OF GENR, SEXUAL ORIENTATN OR TENT”.THE TOURNAMENT KICKS OFF ON SUNDAY NOVEMBER 20, WH ENGLAND AND WAL GROUP B.SPEAKG THE COMMONS, FOREIGN OFFICE MISTER DAVID RUTLEY SAID: “MISTERS AND SENR OFFICIALS HAVE RAISED THE NCERNS OF LGBT+ VISORS WH QATARI THORI AT ALL LEVELS AND WILL NTUE TO ENGAGE ON THIS ISSUE AHEAD OF AND DURG THE WORLD CUP.“QATAR HAS REPEATEDLY MTED THAT EVERYBODY IS WELE TO THE TOURNAMENT AND WE WILL NTUE TO ENURAGE EQUAL TREATMENT AND THE RPECT OF DIVIDUAL RIGHTS, AND INTIFY WHAT ACTN THE QATARI THORI ARE TAKG TO MATCH THEIR MMENT.”MR POLLARD, THE MP FOR PLYMOUTH SUTTON AND DEVONPORT, SAID: “I CLARE AN TERT AS A MASSIVE GAY, BUT AS AN ENGLAND-SUPPORTG HOMOSEXUAL IS NOT SAFE FOR SOMEONE LIKE ME TO WATCH THE WORLD CUP QATAR.“BEE OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS AB OF MIGRANT WORKERS AND QATAR’S LGBT POPULATN I PERSONALLY DON’T THK QATAR SHOULD EVER HAVE BEEN AWARD A MAJOR SPORTG PETN.“WILL THE MISTER BACK THE HOME NATNS’ PTAS WEARG A RABOW ARMBAND WHEN THEY PLAY AT THE WORLD CUP?”ENGLAND’S HARRY KANE HAS SAID HE WILL WEAR A RABOW PTA’S ARMBAND DURG THE WORLD CUP (PA)MR POLLARD WENT ON TO ASK MR RUTLEY TO APOLOGISE FOR THE FOREIGN SECRETARY’S REMARKS, ADDG: “BEE IS NEVER ACCEPTABLE FOR A GOVERNMENT MISTER TO FORCE LGBT PEOPLE BACK TO THE CLOSET.”MR RUTLEY REPLIED: “I RPECT (MR POLLARD’S) MENTS AND HE AND I HAVE WORKED TOGETHER ON MANY ISSU THE PAST AND I UNRSTAND HIS MPAIGNS ON THIS ISSUE.“OUR PRRY IS, OF URSE, THE SAFETY OF ALL BRISH NATNALS WHO WILL BE TRAVELLG TO THE WORLD CUP.“LGBT+ RIGHTS IS AN ISSUE THE UK PRRIS TERNATNALLY AND WE NTUE TO ENGAGE WH THE QATAR THORI ON THIS ISSUE.“MANY SPORTSMEN AND WOMEN E THEIR PLATFORM TO DO IMPORTANT WORK ACROSS A RANGE OF ISSU, THAT’S THEIR PERSONAL CHOICE.“THE UK GOVERNMENT STANDS BY OUR VALU AND OUR TEAMS STAND BY THE VALU OF OUR HOME NATNS.”IT AS AN AMBASSADOR FOR THE WORLD CUP QATAR SCRIBED HOMOSEXUALY AS “DAMAGE THE MD”.FORMER QATARI FOOTBALLER KHALID SALMAN TOLD A GERMAN PUBLIC BROADSTER THAT BEG GAY IS “HARAM”, OR FORBIDN ARABIC, AND THAT HE HAS A PROBLEM WH CHILDREN SEEG GAY PEOPLE.EXCERPTS OF THE TELEVISN TERVIEW WERE SHOWN ON MONDAY NIGHT ON ZDF.LABOUR’S SHADOW SPORTS MISTER JEFF SMH SAID THE ON WAS NOW ON THE WORLD CUP ANISERS TO NMN THE MENTS.“THEY NEED TO SAY THIS PERSON DON’T REPRENT , DON’T REPRENT THE ETHOS AND THE MANNER WHICH THE WORLD CUP IS MEANT TO BE N, AND SAY LGBT PEOPLE, ALONG WH ALL OTHER PEOPLE, ARE WELE,” HE TOLD BBC RAD 4’S WORLD AT ONE.APPEARG ON THE SAME PROGRAMME, ROBBIE SANTOS OM LGBT GROUP STONEWALL SAID HE WAS SURPRISED BUT NOT SHOCKED BY THE VIEWS.“IT IS SHOCKG TO HEAR SUCH MENTS THE N UP TO WHAT SHOULD BE AN ABSOLUTELY JOYO, CLIVE, GLOBAL CELEBRATN. SUCH A DIVISIVE MENT IS JT REALLY, REALLY HARD TO HEAR,” HE SAID.“I THK THAT THE TOURNAMENT IS GOG TO HAPPEN, PEOPLE ARE GOG TO WATCH , BUT IS GOG TO BE REALLY UNEASY FOR SO MANY PEOPLE TO WATCH A TOURNAMENT WHICH HAS JT BEEN MIRED SO MUCH NTROVERSY.”UK NEWSMOST READ

GAY MAN OM QATAR SOUNDS ALARM ABOUT VERAGE OF THE WORLD CUP AND LGBT OPPRSN

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GAY MP SAYS ‘QATAR WORLD CUP IS NOT SAFE FOR PEOPLE LIKE ME’

Homosexualy is illegal there and n be punished wh up to seven years prison.

THIS GAY SPORTS MISTER STOOD UP TO QATAR AND FIFA AND WORE RABOWS AT THE WORLD CUP

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GAY MAN 'HUNTED' BY QATAR POLICE AND GANG-RAPED HOTEL ROOM AHEAD OF WORLD CUP

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WORLD CUP QATAR NOT SAFE FOR SOMEONE LIKE ME, SAYS GAY MP

Andrew is gay and had origally ponred boyttg the World Cup prott of Qatar’s anti-homosexualy laws and FIFA’s unwillgns to ph back agast them.

GUERNSEY PRSHOMENEWSSPORTWEATHERSERVICPODSTSNEWSALL NEWS CORONAVISBSPOLICSNEWS OM THE ISLANDSTRAVELVOICEDUTNCAMPAIGNSFEATURMORE PROPERTYUK NEWSWORLD NEWSVIRAL NEWSMOTORSWORLD CUP QATAR NOT SAFE FOR SOMEONE LIKE ME, SAYS GAY MPUK NEWSPUBLISHED: NOV 8, 2022LAST UPDATED: NOV 8, 2022HOMOSEXUALY IS ILLEGAL QATAR AND ANYONE FOUND PARTICIPATG SAME-SEX SEXUAL ACTIVY N BE PUNISHED BY UP TO SEVEN YEARS PRISON.SUBSCRIBE TO OUR DAILY NEWSLETTER!SIGN UPA GAY MP HAS WARNED IS “NOT SAFE” FOR LGBT+ SUPPORTERS TO TRAVEL TO THE WORLD CUP QATAR.LABOUR’S LE POLLARD ALSO URGED FOREIGN SECRETARY JAM CLEVERLY TO APOLOGISE FOR MENTS WHICH “FORCE LGBT PEOPLE BACK TO THE CLOSET”.MR CLEVERLY PREVLY ADVISED LGBT+ FOOTBALL FANS HEADG TO THE FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT TO SHOW “A LTLE B OF FLEX AND PROMISE” AND TO “RPECT THE CULTURE OF YOUR HOST NATN”.HOMOSEXUALY IS ILLEGAL QATAR AND ANYONE FOUND PARTICIPATG SAME-SEX SEXUAL ACTIVY N BE PUNISHED BY UP TO SEVEN YEARS PRISON.THE TOURNAMENT KICKS OFF ON SUNDAY NOVEMBER 20, WH ENGLAND AND WAL GROUP B.SPEAKG THE COMMONS, FOREIGN OFFICE MISTER DAVID RUTLEY SAID: “MISTERS AND SENR OFFICIALS HAVE RAISED THE NCERNS OF LGBT+ VISORS WH QATARI THORI AT ALL LEVELS AND WILL NTUE TO ENGAGE ON THIS ISSUE AHEAD OF AND DURG THE WORLD CUP.“QATAR HAS REPEATEDLY MTED THAT EVERYBODY IS WELE TO THE TOURNAMENT AND WE WILL NTUE TO ENURAGE EQUAL TREATMENT AND THE RPECT OF DIVIDUAL RIGHTS, AND INTIFY WHAT ACTN THE QATARI THORI ARE TAKG TO MATCH THEIR MMENT.”MR POLLARD, THE MP FOR PLYMOUTH SUTTON AND DEVONPORT, SAID: “I CLARE AN TERT AS A MASSIVE GAY, BUT AS AN ENGLAND-SUPPORTG HOMOSEXUAL IS NOT SAFE FOR SOMEONE LIKE ME TO WATCH THE WORLD CUP QATAR.“BEE OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS AB OF MIGRANT WORKERS AND QATAR’S LGBT POPULATN I PERSONALLY DON’T THK QATAR SHOULD EVER HAVE BEEN AWARD A MAJOR SPORTG PETN.“WILL THE MISTER BACK THE HOME NATNS’ PTAS WEARG A RABOW ARMBAND WHEN THEY PLAY AT THE WORLD CUP?”ENGLAND’S HARRY KANE HAS SAID HE WILL WEAR A RABOW PTA’S ARMBAND DURG THE WORLD CUP (PA)MR RUTLEY REPLIED: “I RPECT (MR POLLARD’S) MENTS AND HE AND I HAVE WORKED TOGETHER ON MANY ISSU THE PAST AND I UNRSTAND HIS MPAIGNS ON THIS ISSUE.“OUR PRRY IS, OF URSE, THE SAFETY OF ALL BRISH NATNALS WHO WILL BE TRAVELLG TO THE WORLD CUP.“LGBT+ RIGHTS IS AN ISSUE THE UK PRRIS TERNATNALLY AND WE NTUE TO ENGAGE WH THE QATAR THORI ON THIS ISSUE.“MANY SPORTSMEN AND WOMEN E THEIR PLATFORM TO DO IMPORTANT WORK ACROSS A RANGE OF ISSU, THAT’S THEIR PERSONAL CHOICE.“THE UK GOVERNMENT STANDS BY OUR VALU AND OUR TEAMS STAND BY THE VALU OF OUR HOME NATNS.”FORMER QATARI FOOTBALLER KHALID SALMAN TOLD A GERMAN PUBLIC BROADSTER THAT BEG GAY IS “HARAM”, OR FORBIDN ARABIC, AND THAT HE HAS A PROBLEM WH CHILDREN SEEG GAY PEOPLE.EXCERPTS OF THE TELEVISN TERVIEW WERE SHOWN ON MONDAY NIGHT ON ZDF.LABOUR’S SHADOW SPORTS MISTER JEFF SMH SAID THE ON WAS NOW ON THE WORLD CUP ANISERS TO NMN THE MENTS.“THEY NEED TO SAY THIS PERSON DON’T REPRENT , DON’T REPRENT THE ETHOS AND THE MANNER WHICH THE WORLD CUP IS MEANT TO BE N, AND SAY LGBT PEOPLE, ALONG WH ALL OTHER PEOPLE, ARE WELE,” HE TOLD BBC RAD 4’S WORLD AT ONE.APPEARG ON THE SAME PROGRAMME, ROBBIE SANTOS OM LGBT GROUP STONEWALL SAID HE WAS SURPRISED BUT NOT SHOCKED BY THE VIEWS.“IT IS SHOCKG TO HEAR SUCH MENTS THE N UP TO WHAT SHOULD BE AN ABSOLUTELY JOYO, CLIVE, GLOBAL CELEBRATN. SUCH A DIVISIVE MENT IS JT REALLY, REALLY HARD TO HEAR,” HE SAID.“I THK THAT THE TOURNAMENT IS GOG TO HAPPEN, PEOPLE ARE GOG TO WATCH , BUT IS GOG TO BE REALLY UNEASY FOR SO MANY PEOPLE TO WATCH A TOURNAMENT WHICH HAS JT BEEN MIRED SO MUCH NTROVERSY.”UK NEWSMOST READ

The World Cup will start jt two weeks' time, spe grave ncerns over Qatar's rerd on human rights, wh the Middle East untry ntug to persecute the LGBT+ munyA gay man has claimed he was hunted by police ahead of the upg World CupA gay man who has prevly livg Qatar has claimed he was 'hunted' by the untry's police force before beg gang-raped a hotel room.

EXPRS & STARHOMENEWSSPORTENTERTAMENTSERVICNOTIFITN SETTGSSUBSCRIBE TO ONE OR ALL NOTIFITN SOURC OM THIS ONE PLACE.NEWSLETTERSUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO GET THE DAY'S TOP STORI SENT DIRECTLY TO YOU.SIGN ME UPNEWSALL NEWS COST OF LIVGLOL HUBSCRIMEPOLICSHEALTHBSEDUTNVOICFEATURENVIRONMENTMORE UK NEWSNOSTALGIAPROPERTYTRANSPORTMOTORSWORLD NEWSVIRAL NEWSFEED A FAYSPONSORED ARTICLFD NEWS FOR YOUR TOWNWORLD CUP QATAR NOT SAFE FOR SOMEONE LIKE ME, SAYS GAY MPUK NEWSPUBLISHED: NOV 8, 2022LAST UPDATED: NOV 8, 2022HOMOSEXUALY IS ILLEGAL QATAR AND ANYONE FOUND PARTICIPATG SAME-SEX SEXUAL ACTIVY N BE PUNISHED BY UP TO SEVEN YEARS PRISON.SUBSCRIBE TO OUR DAILY NEWSLETTER!SIGN UPLE POLLARDA GAY MP HAS WARNED IS “NOT SAFE” FOR LGBT+ SUPPORTERS TO TRAVEL TO THE WORLD CUP QATAR.LABOUR’S LE POLLARD ALSO URGED FOREIGN SECRETARY JAM CLEVERLY TO APOLOGISE FOR MENTS WHICH “FORCE LGBT PEOPLE BACK TO THE CLOSET”.MR CLEVERLY PREVLY ADVISED LGBT+ FOOTBALL FANS HEADG TO THE FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT TO SHOW “A LTLE B OF FLEX AND PROMISE” AND TO “RPECT THE CULTURE OF YOUR HOST NATN”.HOMOSEXUALY IS ILLEGAL QATAR AND ANYONE FOUND PARTICIPATG SAME-SEX SEXUAL ACTIVY N BE PUNISHED BY UP TO SEVEN YEARS PRISON.FOREIGN OFFICE ADVICE NOT “ANY TIMACY BETWEEN PERSONS PUBLIC N BE NSIRED OFFENSIVE, REGARDLS OF GENR, SEXUAL ORIENTATN OR TENT”.THE TOURNAMENT KICKS OFF ON SUNDAY NOVEMBER 20, WH ENGLAND AND WAL GROUP B.SPEAKG THE COMMONS, FOREIGN OFFICE MISTER DAVID RUTLEY SAID: “MISTERS AND SENR OFFICIALS HAVE RAISED THE NCERNS OF LGBT+ VISORS WH QATARI THORI AT ALL LEVELS AND WILL NTUE TO ENGAGE ON THIS ISSUE AHEAD OF AND DURG THE WORLD CUP.“QATAR HAS REPEATEDLY MTED THAT EVERYBODY IS WELE TO THE TOURNAMENT AND WE WILL NTUE TO ENURAGE EQUAL TREATMENT AND THE RPECT OF DIVIDUAL RIGHTS, AND INTIFY WHAT ACTN THE QATARI THORI ARE TAKG TO MATCH THEIR MMENT.”MR POLLARD, THE MP FOR PLYMOUTH SUTTON AND DEVONPORT, SAID: “I CLARE AN TERT AS A MASSIVE GAY, BUT AS AN ENGLAND-SUPPORTG HOMOSEXUAL IS NOT SAFE FOR SOMEONE LIKE ME TO WATCH THE WORLD CUP QATAR.“BEE OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS AB OF MIGRANT WORKERS AND QATAR’S LGBT POPULATN I PERSONALLY DON’T THK QATAR SHOULD EVER HAVE BEEN AWARD A MAJOR SPORTG PETN.“WILL THE MISTER BACK THE HOME NATNS’ PTAS WEARG A RABOW ARMBAND WHEN THEY PLAY AT THE WORLD CUP?”ENGLAND’S HARRY KANE HAS SAID HE WILL WEAR A RABOW PTA’S ARMBAND DURG THE WORLD CUP (PA)MR POLLARD WENT ON TO ASK MR RUTLEY TO APOLOGISE FOR THE FOREIGN SECRETARY’S REMARKS, ADDG: “BEE IS NEVER ACCEPTABLE FOR A GOVERNMENT MISTER TO FORCE LGBT PEOPLE BACK TO THE CLOSET.”MR RUTLEY REPLIED: “I RPECT (MR POLLARD’S) MENTS AND HE AND I HAVE WORKED TOGETHER ON MANY ISSU THE PAST AND I UNRSTAND HIS MPAIGNS ON THIS ISSUE.“OUR PRRY IS, OF URSE, THE SAFETY OF ALL BRISH NATNALS WHO WILL BE TRAVELLG TO THE WORLD CUP.“LGBT+ RIGHTS IS AN ISSUE THE UK PRRIS TERNATNALLY AND WE NTUE TO ENGAGE WH THE QATAR THORI ON THIS ISSUE.“MANY SPORTSMEN AND WOMEN E THEIR PLATFORM TO DO IMPORTANT WORK ACROSS A RANGE OF ISSU, THAT’S THEIR PERSONAL CHOICE.“THE UK GOVERNMENT STANDS BY OUR VALU AND OUR TEAMS STAND BY THE VALU OF OUR HOME NATNS.”IT AS AN AMBASSADOR FOR THE WORLD CUP QATAR SCRIBED HOMOSEXUALY AS “DAMAGE THE MD”.FORMER QATARI FOOTBALLER KHALID SALMAN TOLD A GERMAN PUBLIC BROADSTER THAT BEG GAY IS “HARAM”, OR FORBIDN ARABIC, AND THAT HE HAS A PROBLEM WH CHILDREN SEEG GAY PEOPLE.EXCERPTS OF THE TELEVISN TERVIEW WERE SHOWN ON MONDAY NIGHT ON ZDF.LABOUR’S SHADOW SPORTS MISTER JEFF SMH SAID THE ON WAS NOW ON THE WORLD CUP ANISERS TO NMN THE MENTS.“THEY NEED TO SAY THIS PERSON DON’T REPRENT , DON’T REPRENT THE ETHOS AND THE MANNER WHICH THE WORLD CUP IS MEANT TO BE N, AND SAY LGBT PEOPLE, ALONG WH ALL OTHER PEOPLE, ARE WELE,” HE TOLD BBC RAD 4’S WORLD AT ONE.APPEARG ON THE SAME PROGRAMME, ROBBIE SANTOS OM LGBT GROUP STONEWALL SAID HE WAS SURPRISED BUT NOT SHOCKED BY THE VIEWS.“IT IS SHOCKG TO HEAR SUCH MENTS THE N UP TO WHAT SHOULD BE AN ABSOLUTELY JOYO, CLIVE, GLOBAL CELEBRATN. SUCH A DIVISIVE MENT IS JT REALLY, REALLY HARD TO HEAR,” HE SAID.“I THK THAT THE TOURNAMENT IS GOG TO HAPPEN, PEOPLE ARE GOG TO WATCH , BUT IS GOG TO BE REALLY UNEASY FOR SO MANY PEOPLE TO WATCH A TOURNAMENT WHICH HAS JT BEEN MIRED SO MUCH NTROVERSY.”UK NEWSMOST READ

One of the biggt ncerns about the Middle East untry is s laws which outlaw homosexualy, wh LGBT+ people the untry at risk of imprisonment or even the ath penalty.

One gay man om the Philipp who worked Qatar as an office assistant, has told how he was lured to a hotel and gang-raped by police. The man, 'Ali', told the i that he received a msage on a gay datg app om a man claimg to be a Turkish worker.