Qatar World Cup ambassador mak anti-gay ments

Contents:

• BAYERN MUNICH'S LEON GORETZKA HS OUT AT QATAR'S ANTI-GAY MENTS
• BRISH MISTER TELLS GAY WORLD CUP FANS TO 'BE RPECTFUL'
• UK MISTER CRICISED OVER LL FOR GAY WORLD CUP FANS TO SHOW RPECT QATAR
• BEG GAY IS 'DAMAGE THE MD', QATAR WORLD CUP AMBASSADOR SAYS
• WORLD CUP HOSTS QATAR UGHT GAY RIGHTS STORM AFTER HOMOPHOBIC MENTS SCREENED BY OFFICIAL TOURNAMENT BROADSTER
• ‘I FEEL GAY, DISABLED … LIKE A WOMAN TOO!’: INFANTO MAK BIZARRE ATTACK ON CRICS
• 'THEY HAVE TO ACCEPT OUR L HERE' - QATAR WORLD CUP AMBASSADOR MAK ANTI-GAY MENTS
• I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN

BAYERN MUNICH'S LEON GORETZKA HS OUT AT QATAR'S ANTI-GAY MENTS

LGBTQ+ rights activists protted agast the Qatar World Cup outsi Fifa's mm Zurich on TudayA Qatar World Cup ambassador llg homosexualy "damage the md" is "harmful and unacceptable", says Human Rights Qatar ternatnal Khalid Salman told German broadster ZDF that LGBTQ+ people attendg the tournament should "accept our l".

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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.

BRISH MISTER TELLS GAY WORLD CUP FANS TO 'BE RPECTFUL'

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. On November 8, Khalid Salman, a 2022 FIFA Qatar World Cup Ambassador, scribed homosexualy as “damage the md” an terview wh ZDF, a TV channel Germany. He also remarked that beg gay is “haram, ” which is Arabic for “forbidn.

UK MISTER CRICISED OVER LL FOR GAY WORLD CUP FANS TO SHOW RPECT QATAR

False rmatn n be harmful to liv of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people, cludg rints of Qatar, who already face discrimatn, vlence, and state-sponsored nversn practic.

“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.

BEG GAY IS 'DAMAGE THE MD', QATAR WORLD CUP AMBASSADOR SAYS

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. 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.

WORLD CUP HOSTS QATAR UGHT GAY RIGHTS STORM AFTER HOMOPHOBIC MENTS SCREENED BY OFFICIAL TOURNAMENT BROADSTER

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. 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. BERLIN — An ambassador for the World Cup Qatar has scribed homosexualy as a “damage the md” an terview wh German public broadster ZDF jt two weeks before the openg of the global soccer tournament the Gulf Qatari natnal soccer player Khalid Salman told a German reporter an terview that beg gay is “haram, ” or forbidn Arabic, and that he has a problem wh children seeg gay people.

‘I FEEL GAY, DISABLED … LIKE A WOMAN TOO!’: INFANTO MAK BIZARRE ATTACK ON CRICS

Concerns about the nservative untry’s treatment of homosexuals livg the untry as well as LGBTQ tourists attendg the World Cup have also been exprsed for a long the terview, Salman also said that homosexualy “is a spirual harm. Let’s talk about gays, ” Salman said English, which is simultaneoly dubbed to German the TV segment. But they will have to accept our l, ” he terview was cut short by a prs officer of the World Cup anizg mtee after Salman exprsed his views on homosexuals, ZDF reported.

(2:16)ESPNNov 9, 2022, 09:18 AM ETBayern Munich and Germany midfielr Leon Goretzka has said anti-gay ments ma by a Qatar World Cup ambassador are "om another lenium.

"Former Qatar ternatnal Khalid Salman told German broadster ZDF on Tuday that homosexualy was "damage the md" and said gay fans would have to "accept our l, " referrg to homosexualy beg illegal the Gulf state. "On Tuday a group of LGBTQ+ activists protted outsi the FIFA mm Zurich, Swzerland, llg for actn on Qatar's anti-gay laws. LONDON (AP) — Brish Foreign Secretary Jam Cleverly faced cricism Wednday after tellg gay soccer fans headg to the World Cup Qatar that they should show some “promise” and be “rpectful of the host natn.

'THEY HAVE TO ACCEPT OUR L HERE' - QATAR WORLD CUP AMBASSADOR MAK ANTI-GAY MENTS

"Homosexual activy is crimalized Qatar and Cleverly was asked about the issue the wake of Brish activist Peter Tatchell beg qutned by police after holdg a one-man prott ont of Qatar’s Natnal Mm, holdg up a sign accg the untry of jailg members of the LGBTQ muny.

“I have spoken to the Qatari thori the past about gay football fans gog to watch the World Cup and how they will treat our fans and ternatnal fans, " Cleverly told LBC Rad. ”Polil CartoonsQatar has said all are wele at the World Cup, cludg LGBTQ fans, but that visors should rpect the untry’s nservative culture, which public displays of affectn — even among heterosexuals — is law lls for a prison sentence of one to three years for adults nvicted of nsensual gay or lbian sex. "Opposn parti also cricised Cleverly's ments, wh SNP Wtmster puty lear Kirsten Oswald tweetg: “Foreign Secretary seems sence to be advisg people travellg to the World Cup Qatar to show some rpect and not be gay.

I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN

Gay, lbian, bisexual, trans and queer soccer players who are publicly out — now at least 95 total — make up almost 13% of all the athlet petg the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup Atralia and New Zealand, Outsports has found. Countri like Nigeria and Zambia imprison gay people.