A rerd number of out LGBTQ players make this year’s tournament a feast for gay fans.
Contents:
- GAY MAN 'HUNTED' BY QATAR POLICE AND GANG-RAPED HOTEL ROOM AHEAD OF WORLD CUP
- A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
- WORLD CUP 2022, GAY ATHLET AND LGBTQ CLN
- CONFN, EXASPERATN AND DATG APPS – MY MONTH AS A GAY REPORTER AT THE QATAR WORLD CUP
GAY MAN 'HUNTED' BY QATAR POLICE AND GANG-RAPED HOTEL ROOM AHEAD OF WORLD CUP
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“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.
A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
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.
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.
WORLD CUP 2022, GAY ATHLET AND LGBTQ CLN
Remarks by a Qatar World Cup ambassador have been lled “harmful and unacceptable” after he scribed homosexualy as “damage the md” Salman, a former Qatar ternatnal footballer, ma the ments an terview wh the German broadster about the fact that homosexualy is illegal his untry, Salman said: “They have to accept our l here. [Homosexualy] is haram. Yet the host untry has not repealed or spend laws that crimalize homosexualy.
CONFN, EXASPERATN AND DATG APPS – MY MONTH AS A GAY REPORTER AT THE QATAR WORLD CUP
The arrt of a gay fan would explo to an ternatnal cint and mar a tournament whose primary geopolil purpose is to sportwash the image of Qatar the ey of the even the slightt uncertaty would create lgerg disfort. (Photo by Nikku/Xhua via Getty Imag)Fans unnvced Qatar is openg s doors 'whout discrimatn'Unr Sharia law, homosexualy is punishable by ath, a fact that ntributed to the spread of misrmatn and exaggerated fears as the World Cup neared. But the Qatari penal do punish any extramaral sex, cludg gay sex, wh up to seven years prison; and “leadg, stigatg, or scg a male to m sodomy or dissipatn” wh 1-3 years.
”Qatari thori have given dozens of assuranc, public and private, wh varyg gre of specificy and vaguens, that the so-lled “moraly” laws will sentially not be enforced durg the World Tamim B Hamad Al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, told the Uned Natns General Assembly September that his natn would be “openg our doors … whout discrimatn, ” acrdg to a print Gianni Infanto has urged LGBTQ fans to attend, and, a vio msage one month before kickoff, specifilly mentned “genr” and “sexual orientatn” as ax of Al-Khater, the Supreme Commtee’s CEO, has said that gay fans will be allowed to hold hands, and Pri flags will be tolerated. “Here is a untry that is lerally on rerd as sayg, any other time, if you're gay, this is very very bad for you, ” one Amerin fan who ultimately cid not to attend told Yahoo Sports.
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