Everyone wele? Gay football fans prepare for Qatar
Contents:
- QATAR HAS TAKEN 'REAL STEPS' FOR SAFETY OF GAY FANS, SAYS FOREIGN SECRETARY
- EVERYONE WELE? GAY FOOTBALL FANS PREPARE FOR QATAR
- DAVID BECKHAM’S ‘STAT AS A GAY IN WILL BE SHREDD’ IF HE NTU AS QATAR WORLD CUP AMBASSADOR SAYS BRISH EDIAN
- GAY FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO WOULD BE ‘SRED’ TO PLAY AT WORLD CUP QATAR
QATAR HAS TAKEN 'REAL STEPS' FOR SAFETY OF GAY FANS, SAYS FOREIGN SECRETARY
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Qatar bans homosexualy, but the Qatar-backed Al Jazeera’s AJ+ still recently marked June as LGBT Pri Month wh a tweet about speakg to the st of “Queer Eye” on LGBT issu. The terview highlighted “genr visibily, relign’s effect on youth, muny through social media and what mak not so different, ” and clud rabow flag as Qatar cracks down on homosexualy, the June 1 vio clud a discsn about relign and showed a church, ditg that Christians were the on “tellg our youth that they are different, that they are bad, that they are broken.
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EVERYONE WELE? GAY FOOTBALL FANS PREPARE FOR QATAR
Qatar's hardle stance on lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBTQ+) issu is at the centre of the world's attentn. * katar gay *
The Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA) - which is dited to achievg equal rights for LGBT people worldwi - documents Qatar’s laws agast gay rights. ”ILGA says that there is ltle rmatn on whether the law is enforced but not that 1995, a US cizen received 90 lash for “same-sex activy” and that gay foreign workers have been ported.
It also not that 2016, Doha News had an article by a Qatari man who was gay; the article was cricized for “allowg the topic of ‘homosexualy’ Qatar to be discsed.
” This is particularly ironic nsirg that Al-Jazeera English discs and enurag regnn of gay rights outsi Qatar. Even more hypocril is the fact that last July, Qatar censored an article the prt versn of The New York Tim that “related to gay and transgenr rights, ” the ILGA not s 2019 State Sponsored Homophobia report.
DAVID BECKHAM’S ‘STAT AS A GAY IN WILL BE SHREDD’ IF HE NTU AS QATAR WORLD CUP AMBASSADOR SAYS BRISH EDIAN
Harry Kane has lled on Qatar to make sure homosexual England fans feel safe durg the World Cup. Homosexualy is outlawed Qatar, leadg to ncerns over safety for gay fans. * katar gay *
For stance, a recent article discs “anti-gay wch hunts” AJ+’s embrace of gay rights while Qatar cracks down was spotlighted. Journalist Oz Katerji tweeted that “homosexualy is illegal Qatar, wh gay sex punishable by between 1 and 3 years prison.
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Image source, PA MediaQatar has taken "real steps" to ensure the safety of gay fans attendg the World Cup, Foreign Secretary Jam Cleverly has Cleverley told the BBC he had had "difficult nversatns" wh Qatari unterparts and had been clear how serly the UK tak the build-up to the tournament has seen ncerns raised over LGBT as well as broar human rights Qatar. Homosexualy remas illegal unr the untry's laws.
GAY FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO WOULD BE ‘SRED’ TO PLAY AT WORLD CUP QATAR
Asked whether Qatar was safe for gay fans, he said gay rights was an issue he had "brought up over a number of years" while workg wh the hosts preparatn for the event. "The Qataris know how serly we take this issue and they have taken real steps to ensure that gay football fans are safe and do feel secure and n enjoy the football. An ambassador for the World Cup Qatar has scribed homosexualy as "a damage the md" an terview wh German broadster ments e merely two weeks before the World Cup kicks off the Gulf state and rais further ncerns over human rights and LGBTQ+ treatment the Qatari ternatnal Khalid Salman told a German reporter: [Homosexualy] is haram.
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"Homosexualy is illegal Qatar unr Islamic Sharia law. Dr Nas Mohamed, Qatar's first openly gay person, shar his experienc of life Qatar and why he now liv the USA. 2 ln ternatnal visors are expected Qatar for the tournament, which has faced cricism and scepticism ever sce the gas-rich state was selected as host by FIFA December evicts thoands of foreign workers om Doha ahead of WC'Tone-af' foreign secretary cricised for tellg LGBT fans to 'rpect' QatarThe terview was cut short by a media officer om the World Cup anisg mtee after Salman exprsed his views on homosexuals, ZDF, who is also rponsible for sports, said the untry's prime mister had given her a safety guarantee for fans, no matter where they me om, whom they love and what they believe , when she vised Qatar a week claims there has been no change to that stance om the prime mister, who is also Qatar's terr mister, and plans to attend Germany's openg World Cup match agast Japan month, Germany's ambassador to the Gulf state was summoned by the Qatar ernment after Faer appeared to cricise the untry for s human rights Washgton, State Department spokperson Ned Price lled the remarks by the Qatari official a great ncern: "We have a relatnship wh Qatar that allows to discs our areas of mutual tert, but also allows to discs what is important wh the Uned Stat and valu of tolerance, diversy, of rpectg all people regardls of who they are or whom they love.