TIME speaks to Dr. Naser Mohamed, the first and currently only Qatari to publicly e out as gay, ahead of the World Cup.
Contents:
- QATAR 2022: "I GAY SONO BENVENUTI MA EVO MANIFTAZNI PUBBLICHE DI AFFETTO”
- GAY QATARI'S ARTICLE PROVOK BACKLASH OVER WORLD CUP 'VALU'
- GAY FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO WOULD BE ‘SRED’ TO PLAY AT WORLD CUP QATAR
- GAY PEOPLE LIVG UNR RADAR QATAR PREPARE WARILY FOR WORLD CUP
- ‘I FEEL GAY, DISABLED … LIKE A WOMAN TOO!’: INFANTO MAK BIZARRE ATTACK ON CRICS
QATAR 2022: "I GAY SONO BENVENUTI MA EVO MANIFTAZNI PUBBLICHE DI AFFETTO”
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Qatar FIFA World Cup ambassador and former footballer Khalid Salman has said homosexualy is “damage the md, ” an terview wh German broadster ZDF on Monday. Durg the terview, Salman was discsg the issue of homosexualy beg illegal Qatar.
Salman told ZDF that beg gay was “haram, ” meang forbidn acrdg to Islamic law. As many people are expected to travel to Qatar for the World Cup, “let’s talk about gays, ” Salman said. “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 QATARI'S ARTICLE PROVOK BACKLASH OVER WORLD CUP 'VALU'
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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.
"I gay sono benvenuti Qatar ma vono evare effni pubbli. "Gay sono benvenuti" ma n rispetto lla cultura lole. I matrimoni gay, le unni civili e la propaganda sono ogni so vietate.
GAY FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO WOULD BE ‘SRED’ TO PLAY AT WORLD CUP QATAR
Al Khater ha però rinosciuto e il Qatar abbia un approcc più rigoroso nei nonti ll'omossualà rispetto a "molti Pai, dove c'è più dulgenza verso le maniftazni pubbliche di affetto o addirtura ci sono i matrimoni gay".
As the first and currently only Qatari to publicly e out as gay, Mohamed—a doctor who has lived the U. But given homosexualy is crimalized Qatar, he is likely to rema s only member for the foreeable future. In the months sce, Mohamed lnched the non-prof Alwan Foundatn to advance LGBTQ+ rights across the Middle East and pecially Qatar, where he says that secury operativ filtrate gay muni orr to torture and erce members to rm on others.
TIME: As a gay Qatari, do you feel that hostg the World Cup n brg change? Is there an unrground gay scene or is that too dangero?
GAY PEOPLE LIVG UNR RADAR QATAR PREPARE WARILY FOR WORLD CUP
There are some people om really affluent fai that are gay and ’s almost public knowledge—but they’re really wealthy, affluent, and very nnected, so people jt don’t say anythg. But even the most powerful gay [person] Qatar is powerls some ways.
They uld gaybash and get away wh wh no nsequenc at all. And if such an attack happens on a gay fan, I don’t know of the [secury] rourc to help them. Bee you uld be harmed, you n be gay bashed, you n be beaten, and people may not be able to help you.
DOHA (Rters) - An opn article about life as a gay Qatari has stirred bate about the lims of tolerance the nservative Gulf Arab untry which is due to host the 2022 soccer World Cup. REUTERS/Naseem Zeoon The unprecented public sight to homosexualy a untry where gay sex is punishable by jail, was published on the webse of English-language Doha News on Friday, wrten by a man intified only as Majid.
‘I FEEL GAY, DISABLED … LIKE A WOMAN TOO!’: INFANTO MAK BIZARRE ATTACK ON CRICS
”Islamic-based legal s ern the ty, gas-rich pensula which has been urged by gay rights groups to accept homosexual fans durg the World Cup 2022 when Qatar be the first Middle Eastern or Mlim untry to host the FIFA print Sepp Blatter said 2010 that gay men g to watch the football “should rea om any sexual activi, ” but he did not expect there to be any News said the article was tend to start a discsn on homosexualy as “Qatar matured and prepared for the World Cup.
”“The two thgs are not mutually exclive, ” said the official, who did not directly addrs whether the tournament would wele gay gay performers, cludg sger Gee Michael, have played ncerts Qatar.
For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsDegree-ted, bi-lgual and wh a well-tablished reer at one of the untry’s leadg pani, Hamad is, to all appearanc, the very epome of morn-day, outward-lookg he harbours a secret, one which he says he has no choice but to keep hidn at all tim; Hamad is gay – a untry where homosexualy is illegal.