Adam Crafton went to report for The Athletic durg the World Cup Qatar. As a gay man, this was his experience
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
A rerd number of out LGBTQ players make this year’s tournament a feast for gay fans. * homosexual qatar world cup *
“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.
A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
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. 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.
WORLD CUP 2022, GAY ATHLET AND LGBTQ CLN
[Homosexualy] is haram. Yet the host untry has not repealed or spend laws that crimalize homosexualy. 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.
CONFN, EXASPERATN AND DATG APPS – MY MONTH AS A GAY REPORTER AT THE QATAR WORLD CUP
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.