TIME speaks to Dr. Naser Mohamed, the first and currently only Qatari to publicly e out as gay, ahead of the World Cup.
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- GAY QATAR TRAVEL GUI
- GAY UPL WILL BE ALLOWED TO OPENLY HOLD HANDS AND KISS AT QATAR WORLD CUP
- GAY MAN 'HUNTED' BY QATAR POLICE AND GANG-RAPED HOTEL ROOM AHEAD OF WORLD CUP
- GAY DOHA TRAVEL GUI
- 5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)
- QATAR WORLD CUP: GAY COUPL WILL BE PERMTED TO EMBRACE AND KISS IN PUBLIC
- QATAR’S EMIR WEL GAY UPL TO WORLD CUP BUT ASKS THEM TO ‘RPECT OUR CULTURE’
- GAY PEOPLE LIVG UNR RADAR QATAR PREPARE WARILY FOR WORLD CUP
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Gay Qatar. Gay upl WILL be allowed to openly hold hands and kiss at Qatar World Cup – but lols fear they will be beaten and jailed once tournament is overPolice stcted not to arrt same-sex fans showg affectn Qatar 'Spi' had been stcted to mgle among fans and arrt offenrsGay Qatar woman says LGBTQ+ fans will still be 'beaten and jailed' afterwardsAre you an LGBTQ+ fan at the World Cup?
Gay upl will be able to openly hold hands, cuddle and kiss at the Qatar World Cup, spe public displays of affectn beg outlawed by the Arab state, has been revealed. FIFA has held secret meetgs wh Qatar's Interr Mistry and persuad to stop officers om s Preventive Secury Department arrtg gay supporters at the World Cup. Members of the Al Fazaa police force stand near the Flag Plaza ahead of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 on 17 November Doha, Qatar The Khalifa Internatnal Stadium Doha, one of the official stadiums of the 2022 World Cup, is pictured on 14 November'But you will fd very few Qatari gay and lbian people who will believe there will be no repercsns after the World Cup is over.
'Dpe the temporary measur, official Foreign Office advice for travelers remas the same, statg simply that 'homosexualy is illegal Qatar. ' The cisn to stage the World Cup Qatar, a untry where homosexualy n be punishable by ath, has been attacked by gay and human rights anisatns sce the untry was announced as the 2022 host.
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'LGBT+ people there n be subjected to police harassment on the street and shoppg malls for merely 'lookg' gay, '' Brish human rights mpaigner Peter Tatchell wrote for MailOnle. 'There are reports of LGBT+ people beg entrapped by police g gay datg apps and beg murred 'honour' killgs by their fai, ' he Tatchell was qutned by police Qatar last month after prottg the untry's homsexualy laws on the streets of Doha.
Brish human rights mpaigner stands a street Doha, Qatar prottg the untry's homosexualy laws on 25 October, 2022Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch said has documented six s of severe and repeated beatgs and five s of sexual harassment agast LGBTQ+ people police ctody between 2019 and 2022. The World Cup will start jt two weeks' time, spe grave ncerns over Qatar's rerd on human rights, wh the Middle East untry ntug to persecute the LGBT+ munyA gay man has claimed he was hunted by police ahead of the upg World CupA gay man who has prevly livg Qatar has claimed he was 'hunted' by the untry's police force before beg gang-raped a hotel room.
One of the biggt ncerns about the Middle East untry is s laws which outlaw homosexualy, wh LGBT+ people the untry at risk of imprisonment or even the ath penalty.
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One gay man om the Philipp who worked Qatar as an office assistant, has told how he was lured to a hotel and gang-raped by police. The man, 'Ali', told the i that he received a msage on a gay datg app om a man claimg to be a Turkish worker.
The police officers then searched his bag, accg him of beg a prostute, before another gay man arrived after also beg lured to a hotel. Acrdg to the report, several other gay men have claimed they were 'hunted' the same way by Qatar's police force.
Homosexualy is illegal Qatar and a report by Norwegian Broadster NRK, Swen's SVT and Denmark's DR showed three of the 69 hotels on FIFA's official list of remend acmodatns will ny entry to same-sex three hotels did not immediately rpond to a Rters requt for other hotels said they would acmodate them as long as they did not publicly show that they were gay. As the first and currently only Qatari to publicly e out as gay, Mohamed—a doctor who has lived the U.
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But given homosexualy is crimalized Qatar, he is likely to rema s only member for the foreeable future.
In the months sce, Mohamed lnched the non-prof Alwan Foundatn to advance LGBTQ+ rights across the Middle East and pecially Qatar, where he says that secury operativ filtrate gay muni orr to torture and erce members to rm on others.
TIME: As a gay Qatari, do you feel that hostg the World Cup n brg change?
QATAR WORLD CUP: GAY COUPL WILL BE PERMTED TO EMBRACE AND KISS IN PUBLIC
Is there an unrground gay scene or is that too dangero?
There are some people om really affluent fai that are gay and ’s almost public knowledge—but they’re really wealthy, affluent, and very nnected, so people jt don’t say anythg.
QATAR’S EMIR WEL GAY UPL TO WORLD CUP BUT ASKS THEM TO ‘RPECT OUR CULTURE’
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