Gay rights activists prott at World Cup wh 'hidn' rabow flag

Contents:

• WORLD CUP 2022, GAY ATHLET AND LGBTQ CLN
• A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
• GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS PROTT AT WORLD CUP WH 'HIDN' RABOW FLAG

WORLD CUP 2022, GAY ATHLET AND LGBTQ CLN

Sce beg award the World Cup hostg rights 2010, nservative Mlim Qatar has faced cricism of s treatment of low-paid migrant workers as well as s crimalizatn of homosexualy. Gurchaten Sandhu, of the Geneva-based Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, said that FIFA put “athlet a very, very awkward” posn.

He also took issue wh Infanto’s fense of Qatar on Saturday, durg which he lectured Europeans who have cricized the emirate’s human rights rerd and said he “felt” gay, like a woman and a like a migrant worker.

“You don’t feel gay.

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

You are gay, ” Sandhu said.

GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS PROTT AT WORLD CUP WH 'HIDN' RABOW FLAG

ZURICH, Nov 8 (Rters) - A few dozen people protted ont of the FIFA Mm Zurich on Tuday to prs for the rights of the LGBT+ muny ahead of the World Cup hosted by Gulf state soccer players have raised ncerns over the rights of fans travellg to the event, pecially LGBT+ dividuals and women, whom rights groups say Qatari laws discrimate an terview filmed Doha and to be screened later on Tuday, a Qatar World Cup ambassador told German televisn broadster ZDF that homosexualy, which is illegal the nservative Mlim untry, was "damage the md" All Out group that anised the Zurich prott said the monstratn aimed to "make sure FIFA and Qatar know the world is watchg and that cizens around the world expect actn" Out wants FIFA to prsure Qatar to crimalize same-sex relatns and protect the LGBT+ muny, and says FIFA had not publicly mted to ncrete steps that would ensure the safety of LGBT+ football fans, gay players, or the lol LGBT+ muny. 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.

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. 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.

Nasser Mohamed, a gay Qatari livg exile the US, explaed to Vox. So ’s really hard to build a gay muny.

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.

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

To prott the untry’s homophobic law, the ptas of seven teams om Europe planned to prott Qatar’s ban on LGBTQ upl by wearg rabow armbands but ultimately cid not to after beg threatened by FIFA wh yellow rds. 11 of 2004; Article 296)Homosexualy is illegal Qatar and is punishable wh up to seven years prison and a fe.

General displays of public affectn Qatar n lead to followg rights are not regnised Qatar: Qatar's laws and views on LGBTQ rights and issu have drawn cricism to FIFA ever sce award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar is the send nsecutive World Cup which LGBTQ football fans have had to ci whether or not to travel to a natn wh a poor rerd wh gay rights, after Rsia 2018. Openly gay footballer Josh Cavallo said he would be "sred" to play Qatar due to the anti-LGBTQ laws, but Al Khater said he would be weled to the November 2021, he said: “On the ntrary, we wele him here the state of Qatar, we wele him to e and see even prr to the World feels threatened here, nobody feels unsafe.