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Gay “propaganda” is banned Rsia, but that didn't stop a group of soccer fans om promotg LGBTQ rights Mosw wh a subtle — yet lorful — prott.

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WORLD CUP 2022, GAY ATHLET AND LGBTQ CLN

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. * world cup gay protest *

Sce beg award the World Cup hostg rights 2010, nservative Mlim Qatar has faced cricism of s treatment of low-paid migrant workers as well as s crimalizatn of homosexualy. Gurchaten Sandhu, of the Geneva-based Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, said that FIFA put “athlet a very, very awkward” posn.

He also took issue wh Infanto’s fense of Qatar on Saturday, durg which he lectured Europeans who have cricized the emirate’s human rights rerd and said he “felt” gay, like a woman and a like a migrant worker.

“You don’t feel gay. You are gay, ” Sandhu said.

GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS PROTT AT WORLD CUP WH 'HIDN' RABOW FLAG

Peter Tatchell was standg holdg a sign Mosw's Red Square that read: "Put fails to act agast Chechnya torture of gay people." * world cup gay protest *

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.

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Soccer’s erng body had moved to block a plan by seven European team ptas to wear armbands promotg gay rights by threateng them wh yellow rds. * world cup gay protest *

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.

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