TIME speaks to Dr. Naser Mohamed, the first and currently only Qatari to publicly e out as gay, ahead of the World Cup.
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GAY, TRANSGENR FANS ‘WELE’ AT 2022 WORLD CUP, SAYS QATAR
Qatar Preventive Secury Department forc have arbrarily arrted lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people and subjected them to ill-treatment tentn, Human Rights Watch said today. LGBT people terviewed said that their mistreatment took place as recently as September 2022, as Qatar prepared to host the 2022 FIFA Men’s World Cup November and even as the ernment me unr tense scty for s treatment of LGBT people. * germany lgbt qatar *
LGBT issu are sensive Qatar, and homosexual acts are still illegal.
DOHA, Qatar — A top Qatari World Cup official has said that transgenr and gay fans would be weled to the 2022 tournament but strsed that visors would have to rpect Qatari ctoms.
The suatn for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people Qatar is difficult, but Germany currently do not have a travel warng place for the untry, said a foreign mistry spokperson Berl on Wednday. * germany lgbt qatar *
Homosexual acts are banned Qatar but the law around transgenr people is unclear and the issue is seldom addrsed public life or by the thori. A webse that published a story 2016 by an anonymo Qatari thor about beg gay, later went briefly offle the emirate. “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. 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.
Soccer’s erng body had moved to block a plan by seven European team ptas to wear armbands promotg gay rights by threateng them wh yellow rds. * germany lgbt qatar *
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.
The rabow armbands had been viewed as a symbolic prott agast laws Qatar, where homosexualy is illegal. Germany and several other natns planned to wear that armband to show support for that muny, given that Qatar has laws agast homosexualy. However, homosexualy is illegal and punishable by ath the Gulf state where he will now play football.