As the World Cup kicks off Qatar this week, ntroversy is ragg over the cisn to hold the mega sportg event a untry where gay sex is a crime.
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GAY QATARIS PHYSILLY ABED THEN RECED AS AGENTS, MPAIGNER SAYS
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 * qatar world cup gay controversy *
Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Readg the Game newsletter sent straight to your box for eeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s ee weekly newsletter The English Football Associatn has assured LGBT+ fans they will be wele Qatar durg the 2022 World Cup, spe the untry’s ban on people Qatar have ltle choice but to hi their sexualy to f to a society which wily regards homosexualy as a s. However, unr prsure om the outsi, appears Qatar will soften s stance specifilly for the tournament when the world’s ey foc on the untry – a flexible stance which has privately angered the lol gay muny even of next wter’s World Cup, Qatar has sisted “everyone is wele” and announced rabow flags n be displayed at the stadiums solidary wh the gay muny. ”Asked whether that effectively meant homosexualy would temporarily be ma legal durg the tournament, Bullgham said: “We have asked the qutn as to whether all of our fans will be able to e, particularly those om LGBTQ muny, and we received the unequivol answer that absolutely everybody is wele to e to 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. Though there are small pockets of LGBTQ people Qatar, there’s not a gay scene, Mohamed said.
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“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. 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.