Qatar 2022 mar el líme entre la agenda LGBT y un lectivo gay vulnerable

Contents:

• WORLD CUP 2022, GAY ATHLET AND LGBTQ CLN
• GAY QATARIS PHYSILLY ABED THEN RECED AS AGENTS, MPAIGNER SAYS
• GAY FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO WOULD BE ‘SRED’ TO PLAY AT WORLD CUP QATAR
• EVERYONE WELE? GAY SOCCER FANS PREPARE FOR QATAR 2022 WORLD CUP
• THIS GAY QATARI STARTED AN LGBTQ SOCCER FAN GROUP TO EXPOSE ABE HIS HOME UNTRY
• CONFN, EXASPERATN AND DATG APPS – MY MONTH AS A GAY REPORTER AT THE QATAR WORLD CUP
• MUNDIAL QATAR 2022: SER GAY Sí SE PUE, PERO NO MOSTRARLO EN PúBLI
• QATAR 2022 MAR EL LíME ENTRE LA AGENDA LGBT Y UN LECTIVO GAY VULNERABLE
• QATAR 2022 IS NO WORLD CUP FOR GAY PEOPLE

WORLD CUP 2022, GAY ATHLET AND LGBTQ CLN

They also said there had been "a high level of operatn" om cisn to stage the tournament Qatar, where homosexualy is illegal, has been heavily World Cup Qatar 2022: Key qutns answeredHow has Qatar treated stadium workers? The Sports Dk podst: Qatar 2022 - a World Cup like no otherThe ternatnal aln of groups reprentg LGBTIQ+ (lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, tersex, queer or qutng) fans has prented eight actn pots on LGBTIQ+ rights wants to see implemented by Fifa and the Qatari thori before the tournament begs on 21 measur clu repealg laws and regulatns which target LGBTIQ+ people and providg safety guarante agast harassment or have also lled for appropriate trag alg wh the LGBTIQ+ muny, as well as for work to ntue to ensure the long-term safety of LGBTIQ+ persons the regn. 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.

GAY QATARIS PHYSILLY ABED THEN RECED AS AGENTS, MPAIGNER SAYS

It found that only 33 did not object to bookg same-sex upl, while 20 others said that “they would acmodate same-sex upl as long as they did not publicly show that they were gay. FIFA is all rabows this month, but the fall s premier event is Qatar, where homosexualy is agast the law. 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.

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. “If you’re an expat, you’re able to live your life like you want, ” a gay Arab man livg Doha told Rters. Gay Qataris have been promised safety om physil torture exchange for helpg the thori to track down other LGBTQ+ people the untry, a proment Qatari doctor and gay rights mpaigner has told the Nasser Mohamed, who liv the US but retas ntact wh hundreds of gay Qataris, said that some secret works had been promised after arrts by Qatar’s preventive secury partment.

GAY FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO WOULD BE ‘SRED’ TO PLAY AT WORLD CUP QATAR

“Now there are agents the gay muny that were promised safety om physil torture exchange for workg for the preventive secury partment and helpg them fd groups of LGBTQ+ people. ”Mohamed told the Guardian that foreign gay fans Qatar would not be persecuted while at the World Cup fals tournament.

”Last month Human Rights Watch reported that Qatar’s preventive secury partment forc had arbrarily arrted lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people and subjected them to ill‑treatment tentn.

The world’s only openly gay top‑flight men’s footballer says he would be “sred” to play at the World Cup tournament Qatar next year bee of the emirate’s harsh ban on homosexualy and legal penalti rangg om floggg to lengthy prison terms and Cavallo, 21, who plays for Alai Uned Atralia’s A-League, received a wave of support om football fans and current and former players last month after openg up about his sexualy a vio posted to the club’s social media feeds. ”The announcement ma Cavallo the only out gay player men’s profsnal football, his isolatn stark a sport whose admistrators have lnched high-profile public mpaigns recent years embracg LGBT fans and only a handful of male players have ever e out, ntrast to the women’s game, which has easily blown past the same barrier: more than 40 lbian or bisexual players took part the 2019 women’s World Cup France, acrdg to Fifa.

EVERYONE WELE? GAY SOCCER FANS PREPARE FOR QATAR 2022 WORLD CUP

Crics have raised the fact that Fifa ntu to award World Cups to untri such as Rsia – where homophobia has been lled a “state‑sponsored” project – and Qatar, where same-sex acts are illegal, as evince of the erng body’s patchy mment to if holdg the tournament a untry wh strict penalti for homosexualy sent the wrong msage to gay footballers and fans, Cavallo, who has played for Atralia’s unr-20s ternatnal si, told the Guardian’s daily news podst that he would be aaid for his safety if asked to participate the 2022 Qatar World Cup. 'I'm a footballer and I'm gay': A-League player Josh Cavallo talks about his sexualy – vio“I read somethg along the l of that [they] give the ath penalty for gay people Qatar, so ’s somethg I’m very sred [of] and wouldn’t really want to go to Qatar for that, ” he said.

THIS GAY QATARI STARTED AN LGBTQ SOCCER FAN GROUP TO EXPOSE ABE HIS HOME UNTRY

At the end of the day the World Cup is Qatar and one of the greatt achievements as a profsnal footballer is to play for your untry, and to know that this is a untry that don’t support gay people and puts at risk of our own life, that do sre me and mak me re-evaluate – is my life more important than dog somethg really good my reer? ”Homosexual acts are banned unr several Qatari laws wh penalti rangg om at least a year to a prison.

Mlims the untry n be subject to Sharia law that bans any sexual activy outsi marriage wh punishments rangg up to the ath penalty, meang homosexual acts n technilly rult executn, though several human rights reports have said there is no evince any gay people have been executed for the offence. ”Along wh the appallg ndns for migrant workers buildg the astcture for the tournament, the prospect of gay fans or players beg arrted Qatar has dogged Fifa sce the emirate was announced as host of the tournament 2010. The anisatn’s then print, Sepp Blatter, fuelled the ntroversy the same year when he was asked if he had any advice for gay people who wanted to travel to the Gulf state for the petn.

But they walk a fe le between acmodatg what are now mastream attus towards gay people much of the world and the untry’s own nservative relig the tournament has approached, Qatari officials have sought to reassure LGBT fans that they will be wele the untry and n exprs themselv – wh lims.

CONFN, EXASPERATN AND DATG APPS – MY MONTH AS A GAY REPORTER AT THE QATAR WORLD CUP

”Prsed at the time over how Qataris would react to a gay uple holdg hands, Khater said they would be treated the same as a heterosexual uple. DOHA, Qatar (AFP) — World Cup 2022 host Qatar has given the cleart ditn yet that LGBT fans will be wele, engagg wh gay supporters as hosts the Club World Cup — spe crimalizg homosexualy. Organizers of the 2022 soccer spectacle traveled to Bra recent months to meet Liverpool fan clubs cludg the si’s gay supporters’ group, dividuals briefed on the meetg have told AFP.

There are no openly gay or bisexual players the English men’s Premier League, but major clubs have implemented zero-tolerance polici for homophobia and embraced the “rabow lac” mpaign agast discrimatn. Though there are no openly gay venu Doha, a handful of bars are known to be more gay-iendly and attract a loyal clientele of airle staff, hospaly workers and other expatriat.

MUNDIAL QATAR 2022: SER GAY Sí SE PUE, PERO NO MOSTRARLO EN PúBLI

Web ers do not face rtrictns accsg gay datg apps like Grdr Qatar, unlike other Gulf untri, although ers rarely display intifiable pictur.

QATAR 2022 MAR EL LíME ENTRE LA AGENDA LGBT Y UN LECTIVO GAY VULNERABLE

Beg gay is haram to their relign, ” said a gay barman om the Philipp livg the nservative Mlim untry who spoke on ndn of anonymy. He shared a monly held fear that police monor gay apps and perdilly port homosexuals — although there is limed evince for this.

Durg the last World Cup Rsia, ternatnal anti-discrimatn work FARE opened a match-screeng area for gay and ethnic mory soccer fans Mosw. The LGBT-iendly venue opened spe queer activism beg severely rtricted Rsia unr a 2013 “gay propaganda” law forbiddg the promotn of “non-tradnal sexual relatnships” to mors. Neher FIFA nor the Qatari Supreme Commtee anizers have so far publicized any special measur for gay fans ahead of the World Cup.

“I’m really highlightg the hypocrisy of ‘gay fans are wele’ by creatg an LGBTQ football supporter group for their own natnal team, the Maroons, to say, ‘This is an LGBTQ supporters group that nnot have LGBTQ supporters om s own natn jo , bee they would be persecuted, ” said Mohamed this week on my podst, The Sports Kiki.

QATAR 2022 IS NO WORLD CUP FOR GAY PEOPLE

I was fortunate, too, that The Athletic’s football edor is a gay man who felt the issue should be explored.