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Contents:
- A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
- LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
- WORLD CUP 2022, GAY ATHLET AND LGBTQ CLN
- HERE ARE 7 UPG WORLD CHAMPNSHIPS AND WORLD CUPS UNTRI WHERE ’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
- BRISH FOREIGN SECRETARY TELLS GAY WORLD CUP FANS HEADG TO QATAR TO ‘BE RPECTFUL’
A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
A rerd number of out LGBTQ players make this year’s tournament a feast for gay fans. * world cup gay law *
“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.
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. It will be a glor month to be a gay fan. Last time at the 2019 Women’s World Cup, the Netherlands lay claim to the honor of beg the team wh the most out LGBTQ players, but this year Atralia boasts 10 out players and overtak them for the tle of Gayt Team 2k23.
Ireland’s historic entry to the tournament marks another triumph for out midfielr Sead Farrelly, whose natnal team but and 2023 return to the NWSL e more than six years after retirg om soccer the wake of systemic homophobic and sexual abe wh the league, which the Athletic first reported on 2021.
LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
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 2022, GAY ATHLET AND LGBTQ CLN
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.
HERE ARE 7 UPG WORLD CHAMPNSHIPS AND WORLD CUPS UNTRI WHERE ’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
“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.
BRISH FOREIGN SECRETARY TELLS GAY WORLD CUP FANS HEADG TO QATAR TO ‘BE RPECTFUL’
Instead, FIFA will allow players to choose om one of eight armbands whose them don’t mentn lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer or nonbary rights:.
Image source, Getty ImagIn the latt sign of risg homophobia different Ain untri, a Kenyan opposn MP is leadg a mpaign for parliament to further crimalise the untry's small LGBTQ muny. Gee Peter Kaluma's move after neighbourg Uganda adopted a tough new anti-gay law, rejectg threats by US Print Joe Bin to impose sanctns and travel rtrictns on "anyone volved ser human rights ab".