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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DOCTOR STRANGE SEQUEL HASN’T BEEN BANNED FOR GAY CONTENT—YET, SAYS SDI ARABIAN OFFICIALWH HOMOSEXUALY ILLEGAL ACROSS THE GULF, CENSORS ARE REQUTG THAT DISNEY SHED “BARELY 12 SENDS” OF THE FILM THAT REFERENC A CHARACTER’S LGBTQ+ INTY.BY SAVANNAH WALSHAPRIL 26, 2022COURTY OF MARVEL STUDSSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETWELVE SENDS ARE WHAT STAND BETWEEN SDI ARABIAN DIENC AND THE UPG MARVEL EPIC, DOCTOR STRANGE THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNS. THEATERS SDI ARABIA HAVE REPORTEDLY ASKED DISNEY TO CENSOR “LGBTQ REFERENC” THE BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH–LED SUPERHERO FILM. THE PANY’S APPARENT REFAL TO DO SO HAS LED TO REPORTS THAT DOCTOR STRANGE HAS BEEN BANNED OM RELEASE THE UNTRY AS WELL AS KUWA AND QATAR. “WE SENT TO THE DISTRIBUTOR, AND THE DISTRIBUTOR SENT TO DISNEY, AND DISNEY HAS TOLD THEY ARE NOT WILLG [TO MAKE THE CUTS],” SAID NAWAF ALSABHAN, SDI ARABIA’S GENERAL SUPERVISOR OF CEMA CLASSIFITN, AS REPORTED BY THE GUARDIAN. OFFICIALS ARE QUIBBLG OVER “BARELY 12 SENDS” OF NTENT WHICH A LBIAN CHARACTER, AMERI CHAVEZ (XOCHL GOMEZ), ACKNOWLEDG HER “TWO MOMS.” ALSABHAN TOLD THE OUTLET THAT SCE HOMOSEXUALY IS ILLEGAL THE REGN, “’S VERY TOUGH TO PASS” A SCENE LIKE THIS THROUGH THE CENSORS.THOUGH HE DISPUTED A HOLLYWOOD REPORTER PIECE PUBLISHED FRIDAY THAT CLAIMED THE SAM RAIMI–DIRECTED SEQUEL HAD BEEN OUTRIGHT BANNED OM RELEASE, ALSABHAN’S NIAL SEEMS TO HGE ON DISNEY SLASHG THE SCENE QUTN. “THERE’S NO REASON TO BAN THE FILM,” HE SAID. “IT’S A SIMPLE ED…SO FAR THEY HAVE REFED. BUT WE HAVEN’T CLOSED THE DOOR.” TICKETS TO THE FILM, WHICH HS U.S. THEATERS ON MAY 6, ARE STILL ON SALE THE UNED ARAB EMIRAT, SUGGTG THAT S RELEASE THAT AREA WILL BE UNAFFECTED.THE MIDDLE EAST HAS A LONG HISTORY OF BARRG FILMS THAT CLU GAY THEM. MARVEL’S ETERNALS RECEIVED WHAT APPEARED TO BE A SIAR BAN THE GULF OVER CLN OF A SAME-SEX KISS LAST NOVEMBER. AS NOTED BY THR, WT SI STORY WAS ALSO PROHIBED FOR PICTG THE EXPERIENCE OF A TRANSGENR CHARACTER. THIS HOMOPHOBIC CENSORSHIP APPLI TO ANIMATED CHARACTERS TOO. IN 2020, PIXAR CLUD S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER, SPECTER—A CYCLOPS POLICE OFFICER VOICED BY LENA WAHE— THE FILM ONWARD. AS REPORTED BY VARIETY, HOWEVER, SPECTER’S QUEERNS WAS ACKNOWLEDGED ONLY WH A SGLE LE: “IT’S NOT EASY BEG A NEW PARENT—MY GIRLIEND’S DGHTER GOT ME PULLG MY HAIR OUT, OKAY?” HOWEVER TAME, GOT THE FILM BANNED SDI ARABIA, KUWA, OMAN, AND QATAR. ADDNALLY, THE WORD GIRLIEND WAS SWCHED TO PARTNER FOR THE FILM’S RSIAN RELEASE, ACRDG TO THE OUTLET.DISNEY IS CURRENTLY THE NSERVATIVE CROSS FIR FOR SPEAKG OUT AGAST FLORIDA’S NTROVERSIAL “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL AFTER RECEIVG BACKLASH OM S EMPLOYE AND THE WORLD AT LARGE FOR IALLY STAYG SILENT.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— THE “HOT MS” DUCHS AT THE CENTER OF A ’60S SEX SNDAL— JTICE FOR GIRLS: LOOKG BACK ON THE SHOW 10 YEARS LATER— THE JOHNNY DEPP–AMBER HEARD TRIAL: HOW DID IT COME TO THIS?— AMANDA SEYIED WANTS TO REPRISE HER ROLE AS ELIZABETH HOLM— HOW THE CAST OF THIS IS US WON EQUAL PAY— WILL SMH BANNED FROM THE OSRS FOR 10 YEARS AFTER THE SLAP— NETFLIX’S THE ULTIMATUM OFFERS A SADISTIC TWIST ON REALY ROMANCE— FROM THE ARCHIVE: HOW DAVID ZASLAV BEME AMERI’S KG OF CONTENT— SIGN UP FOR THE “HWD DAILY” NEWSLETTER FOR MT-READ DTRY AND AWARDS VERAGE—PL A SPECIAL WEEKLY EDN OF “AWARDS INSIR.”MOST POPULARADAM SANDLER FDS LOW-KEY TRIUMPH YOU ARE SO NOT INVED TO MY BAT MZVAHBY SAVANNAH WALSHAND JT LIKE THAT: MICHAEL PATRICK KG KNOWS WHEN THE AUDIENCE TURNED ON CHE DIAZBY CHRIS MURPHYNETFLIX’S MURDGH MURRS IS OFFICIALLY RETURNG FOR SEASON 2: EXCLIVEBY SAVANNAH WALSHSAVANNAH WALSH
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. * homosexuality banned in qatar *
(Beit) – 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. Human Rights Watch terviewed six LGBT Qataris, cludg four transgenr women, one bisexual woman, and one gay man.
Doctor Nasser Mohamed, an openly gay Qatari activist, helped nnect Human Rights Watch to five of those terviewed. “You gays are immoral, so we will be the same to you, ” she said one officer told her. “I saw many other LGBT people taed there: two Morocn lbians, four Filipo gay men, and one Nepale gay man, ” she said.
In November the 2022 FIFA Men’s World Cup opens Qatar, a untry that reprs the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people and punish same-sex relatns wh up to seven years prison. * homosexuality banned in qatar *
A Qatari gay man who has experienced ernment reprsn, cludg arbrary arrt, said that secury forc surveilled and arrted him based on his onle activy. In the terpretatn of Sharia law that Qatar follows, sex outsi of marriage, cludg homosexualy, is punishable by jail time and, as a maximum sentence, ath by stong, though there isn’t available evince that such a punishment has ever been ed. Mohamed left Qatar his 20s for medil school “wh the tentn of never g back” bee of the limed life he led as a gay man there.
Though there are small pockets of LGBTQ people Qatar, there’s not a gay scene, Mohamed said.
“If you’re an expat, you’re able to live your life like you want, ” a gay Arab man livg Doha told Rters. In November the 2022 FIFA Men’s World Cup opens Qatar, a untry that reprs the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people and punish same-sex relatns wh up to seven years prison.
* homosexuality banned in qatar *
It found that only 33 did not object to bookg same-sex upl, while 20 others said that “they would acmodate same-sex upl as long as they did not publicly show that they were gay. 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. 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.
LGBT Rights Qatar: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * homosexuality banned in qatar *
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. 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. 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.
Homosexualy⚢✖ Male illegal, female uncertaCensorship✖ State-enforcedNon-bary genr regnn✖ Not legally regnizedDiscrimatn✖ No protectnsEmployment Discrimatn✖ No protectnsHog Discrimatn✖ No protectnsConversn Therapy✖ Not banned. Homosexual activy Qatar is male illegal, female illegal, female uncerta Qatar is a nservative Mlim untry and homosexualy is illegal. The untry's laws and cultural norms heavily discrimate agast LGBTQ+ dividuals, and homosexualy is punishable by imprisonment or f.
Dr Nasser Mohamed, who is gay and om Qatar but now liv the US, tells the Sky News Daily podst he received ath threats after g out, and he now feels he n "never go back" to the untry he grew up . * homosexuality banned in qatar *
As a rult, gay marriage is not possible or regnized Qatar and LGBTQ+ dividuals are not afford the same rights and protectns as heterosexual upl.
N/A There are no specific laws or bans around MSMs donatg blood Qatar, however, homosexualy is illegal the untry. The World Cup Qatar has put the untry's rerd on human rights and laws on homosexualy to the ternatnal spotlight. Speakg to the Sky News Daily podst, Dr Nasser Mohamed, who is gay and om Qatar but now liv the US, says that LGBT+ Qataris feel "removed" om the nversatn about the untry's hostg of the World to subscribe to the Sky News Daily wherever you get your podsts"I draw an analogy of children that are beg domtilly abed a hoe, a wealthy hoehold, and this hoehold is now hostg a fancy dner party and everybody is ved, " he said.
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. As many people are expected to travel to Qatar for the World Cup, “let’s talk about gays, ” Salman said.
The New York Tim’ recent verage of gay and transgenr rights has been censored Qatar, stokg dual ncerns about prs eedoms and human rights. * homosexuality banned in qatar *
Qatar bans homosexualy, but the Qatar-backed Al Jazeera's AJ+ still recently marked June as LGBT Pri Month wh a tweet about speakg to the st of "Queer Eye" on LGBT issu. Even as Qatar cracks down on homosexualy, the June 1 vio clud a discsn about relign and showed a church, ditg that Christians were the on "tellg our youth that they are different, that they are bad, that they are broken.
The Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA) - which is dited to achievg equal rights for LGBT people worldwi - documents Qatar's laws agast gay rights. ILGA says that there is ltle rmatn on whether the law is enforced but not that 1995, a US cizen received 90 lash for "same-sex activy" and that gay foreign workers have been ported.
Homosexualy is banned Qatar but FA chief executive Mark Bullgham says he has received assuranc over the rights of gay fans attendg the World Cup * homosexuality banned in qatar *
It also not that 2016, Doha News had an article by a Qatari man who was gay; the article was cricized for "allowg the topic of 'homosexualy' Qatar to be discsed. This is particularly ironic nsirg that Al-Jazeera English discs and enurag regnn of gay rights outsi Qatar.
Even more hypocril is the fact that last July, Qatar censored an article the prt versn of The New York Tim that "related to gay and transgenr rights, " the ILGA not s 2019 State Sponsored Homophobia report.