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- QATAR OFFICIALS SLAMMED OVER ‘CRAZY’ WORLD CUP RABOW FLAG BAN BY GAY PLAYER - EXCLUSIVE
- GAY FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO WOULD BE ‘SRED’ TO PLAY AT WORLD CUP QATAR
- QATAR TO ALLOW PRI FLAGS DURG 2022 WORLD CUP – BUT WILL STILL LOCK UP GAY MEN FOR HAVG SEX
QATAR OFFICIALS SLAMMED OVER ‘CRAZY’ WORLD CUP RABOW FLAG BAN BY GAY PLAYER - EXCLUSIVE
Former Brish Prime Mister David Cameron sisted there was "no place for homophobia" durg a 2011 speech urgg Qatar to improve s human rights rerd, while David Beckham beg an ambassador for the tournament was met wh some backlash. Back 2015, Uned Stat ternatnal Robbie Rogers - at the time the world's only known openly gay profsnal footballer - sisted he did not have plans to boytt the tournament. However, Atralian pro Josh Cavallo - the only known active top-flight footballer to e out as gay - last year exprsed his ncern about the laws Qatar.
Qatari law crimaliz sex outsi marriage, cludg gay sex. 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. Nasser Mohamed, a gay Qatari livg exile the US, explaed to Vox.
So ’s really hard to build a gay muny. 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.
GAY FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO WOULD BE ‘SRED’ TO PLAY AT WORLD CUP QATAR
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.
I know gay men workers’ mps wouldn’t be able to live the same way. “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.
QATAR TO ALLOW PRI FLAGS DURG 2022 WORLD CUP – BUT WILL STILL LOCK UP GAY MEN FOR HAVG SEX
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. To prott the untry’s homophobic law, the ptas of seven teams om Europe planned to prott Qatar’s ban on LGBTQ upl by wearg rabow armbands but ultimately cid not to after beg threatened by FIFA wh yellow rds.
In se you hadn’t heard, is illegal to be gay Qatar.
While many pani and anizatns hold the rabow flag back their engagements the Middle East and wh other untri that prohib homosexualy, this is a big, bold statement.