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Two weeks before the football tournament begs the Gulf state, former Qatari footballer Khalid Salman said beg gay is "haram".

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WORLD CUP 2022, GAY ATHLET AND LGBTQ CLN

A rerd number of out LGBTQ players make this year’s tournament a feast for gay fans. * the gay 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. 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.

A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

Josh Cavallo, the only openly gay top-flight male soccer player the sport, has told CNN that FIFA’s cisn to ban players om wearg “OneLove” armbands at the Qatar 2022 has ma him feel “exclud.” * the gay world cup *

Nasser Mohamed, a gay Qatari livg exile the US, explaed to Vox.

So ’s really hard to build a gay muny.

JOSH CAVALLO: ONLY OPENLY GAY TOP-FLIGHT MALE FOOTBALLER SAYS FIFA’S ‘ONELOVE’ ARMBAND BAN HAS MA HIM FEEL ‘EXCLUD’

More ws. More goals. Pro-gay untri at the World Cup are dog better than anti-gay natns. * the gay world cup *

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.

THERE ARE 0 OUT GAY PLAYERS AT THE MEN’S WORLD CUP. THERE WERE 40 WOMEN 2019

I know gay men workers’ mps wouldn’t be able to live the same way.

Gay, lbian, bisexual, trans and queer soccer players who are publicly out — now at least 96 total — make over 13% of all the athlet petg the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup Atralia and New Zealand, Outsports has found. Countri like Nigeria and Zambia imprison gay people.

LGBT-CLIVE UNTRI DOG BETTER AT WORLD CUP THAN ‘GROUP OF DEATH TO GAYS’ BY EVERY MEASURE

Still ’s hearteng to see some women om South Ai, where homosexualy has been legal for 25 years.

FIFA vtigatg Mexi anti-gay chant before team was booted om the World Cup. Mexi gave up the elimatg goal jt sends after their fans chanted the gay slur yet aga.

THE ‘GAY WORLD CUP’: WHY LGBTQ+ DIENC LOVE THE EUROVISN SONG CONTT

This gay Brish sports mister stood up to Qatar and FIFA and wore rabows at the World Cup. Iran murrs men for beg gay and kills women who step out of le. This gay Qatari started an LGBTQ soccer fan group to expose abe his home untry.

Qatar don’t hate rabow lors, hat gay people. There are 0 out gay players at the men’s World Cup.

The Outsports gay-iendly World Cup rankgs of all 32 teams. Qatar’s World Cup ambassador says homosexualy is ‘damage the md’. Official tells gay fans to tone down Qatar.

THE ‘DON’T BE GAY’ WORLD CUP

FIFA celebrat Pri, months before holdg World Cup where beg gay is illegal. FIFA is all rabows this month, but the fall s premier event is Qatar, where homosexualy is agast the law. It will be a glor month to be a gay fan.

Last time at the 2019 Women’s World Cup, the Netherlands lay claim to the honor of beg the team wh the most out LGBTQ players, but this year Atralia boasts 10 out players and overtak them for the tle of Gayt Team 2k23. Ireland’s historic entry to the tournament marks another triumph for out midfielr Sead Farrelly, whose natnal team but and 2023 return to the NWSL e more than six years after retirg om soccer the wake of systemic homophobic and sexual abe wh the league, which the Athletic first reported on 2021.

UK MISTER CRICISED OVER LL FOR GAY WORLD CUP FANS TO SHOW RPECT QATAR

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. 'FIFA have ma me feel exclud:' Sole gay top flight player hs out on Qatar armband ban. Josh Cavallo, the only openly gay top-flight male soccer player the sport, has told CNN that FIFA’s cisn to ban players om wearg “OneLove” armbands at the Qatar 2022 has ma him feel “exclud.

BEG GAY IS 'DAMAGE THE MD', QATAR WORLD CUP AMBASSADOR SAYS

The Alai Uned midfielr and former Atralian youth ternatnal ma headl last year when he me out as gay. Gay rights are takg center stage at this year’s men’s World Cup, thanks to the host untry’s diabolil treatment of LGBTQ people. But the strongt statement agast the Qatari’s medieval stance on LGBTQ rights would be an out gay player participatg the tournament.

Dorn says there are multiple possible explanatns for the arth of gay players the men’s World Cup, rangg om soccer culture to the lotn of the event self. There are a growg number of out pro male soccer players: Sttish player Zanr Murray and English player Jake Daniels me out as gay earlier this year.

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