El miedo l futbolista gay por ir a Qatar 2022: «¿Quiero que mi vida té en peligro?»

Contents:

• WORLD CUP 2022, GAY ATHLET AND LGBTQ CLN
• CONFN, EXASPERATN AND DATG APPS – MY MONTH AS A GAY REPORTER AT THE QATAR WORLD CUP
• GAY FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO WOULD BE ‘SRED’ TO PLAY AT WORLD CUP QATAR
• MUNDIAL QATAR 2022: SER GAY Sí SE PUE, PERO NO MOSTRARLO EN PúBLI
• DIRIGENTE FIFA CLARA QUE GAY A UN DíA L MUNDIAL QATAR 2022
• DIRECTIVO FIFA SE CLARA ABIERTAMENTE GAY EN NFERENCIA MUNDIAL QATAR
• COLL MART: EL FUTBOLISTA CLARADO ABIERTAMENTE GAY QUE PLANEA LLEGAR AL MUNDIAL QATAR
• QATAR 2022 MAR EL LíME ENTRE LA AGENDA LGBT Y UN LECTIVO GAY VULNERABLE
• EL MIEDO L FUTBOLISTA GAY POR IR A QATAR 2022: «¿QUIERO QUE MI VIDA Té EN PELIGRO?»
• ¿PúBLI GAY EN EL MUNDIAL QATAR? Sí, SI LOS FANS "RPETAN" Y NO HAY MUTRAS AFECTO
• EL DIRECTOR RELACIóN N LOS MEDS LA FIFA ANUNCIA QUE GAY EN LA EDA PRENSA INFANTO EN QATAR

WORLD CUP 2022, GAY ATHLET AND LGBTQ CLN

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.

As Qatar prepar to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the ernment has assured prospective visors will wele lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) tourists and that fans will be ee to fly the rabow flag at the gam.

But for LGBT Qataris like Mohammed, openly exprsg his sexualy as a gay man is not an optn.

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

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. 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.

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

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. 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.

Polémi por dichos sobre gays embajador l Mundial 0:47. I was a gay reporter Qatar for four weeks. I was fortunate, too, that The Athletic’s football edor is a gay man who felt the issue should be explored.

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

And, this suatn at least, to be gay affords a blsg not granted to other mory groups: n be hidn. It meant tailg and unrstandg how and why LGBT+ people — and that bloody armband — beme one of the them of the here is a gay guy’s acunt of the past month, reportg the World Cup Qatar. Grdr, however, is more of a hook-up app and is often the most direct wdow to the lol gay muny.

There were gay or bisexual men om across the Gulf regn. Gianni Infanto speaks ntroversially ahead of the tournament (Photo: Christopher Lee/Getty Imag)Homosexual behavur is illegal Qatar, as is sex outsi of marriage, regardls of sexual orientatn, so some of what I am scribg may e as a surprise.

“I go to a hook-up bee I crave pany and nnectn, even if is fleetg, ” says one gay man, whose inty is ncealed to protect his inty. Some gay men said they lead secretive liv wh partners. Several gay men scribed their fear of police entrapment, as well as s of btal sexual abe.

DIRIGENTE FIFA CLARA QUE GAY A UN DíA L MUNDIAL QATAR 2022

The hostily is worse for those nsired feme, or trans, unrlg that so much about homophobia is unrpned by warped perceptns of the tournament, many Wtern journalists had obssed over whether men would be able to hold hands Doha. Several gay men were rigned to unfulfilled personal liv, forced to marry women to su society, whether Qatar or neighbourg stat. They explaed that fay and relign do the job of the state, imposg a cloak of shame over homosexualy.

One said he was prepared to set asi his own happs bee he feared his father would be stigmatised by his fay if he was known to have a gay person shared so many of the same terts as me.

He has enjoyed gay sexual enunters but never his own untry, for fear of reprisals.

DIRECTIVO FIFA SE CLARA ABIERTAMENTE GAY EN NFERENCIA MUNDIAL QATAR

He said he had no gay iends wh whom he uld share his feelgs.

I was shown, for example, s of psychologists speakg out agast homosexualy on social media. But if he thks that (he is gay), then I would talk to him and te him about . ”Brighton is often scribed as England’s gay pal, which mak the nversatn untentnally funny — to me, fd some mon ground: “It’s not somethg you n ntrol, ” he says.

COLL MART: EL FUTBOLISTA CLARADO ABIERTAMENTE GAY QUE PLANEA LLEGAR AL MUNDIAL QATAR

Instead, was a multi-loured pattern that stopped short of clarg self as a statement relatg specifilly to LGBT+ people or gay rights Qatar. A 959-word statement on the English FA’s webse scribed the armband as a mpaign to “stop discrimatn” but did not mentn the words “gay” or “LGBT” relatn to the FA chief executive Mark Bullgham scribed the armband “as a visible show of support for cln football — somethg we strongly believe and have nsistently supported”. A few days later, Qatar World Cup ambassador and former ternatnal footballer Khalid Salman told a German broadster that to be gay is “haram”, meang forbidn said: “I am not a strict Mlim, but why is haram?

Today I feel gay. ”He add: “Of urse, I am not Qatari, I am not an Arab, I am not Ain, I am not gay, I am not disabled.

Harry Kane wearg the OneLove armband before the World Cup (Photo: Getty Imag)This was my first full day Doha and when I tweeted cricism of Infanto’s speech, people replied wh imag of a rabow flag flam, warngs to “shut the f*** up u gay peace (sic) of sh”, and I received direct msag tellg me to rot next 48 hours would set the tone for the rt of the tournament. Swanson said: “I am stg here, a privileged posn on a global stage, as a gay man here Qatar. Jt bee Gianni Infanto is not gay, do not mean that he don’t re.

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

”FIFA would not ment formally but sourc, who wouldn’t speak on the rerd orr to protect their jobs, said that the OneLove opposn was “never anti-gay” but stead about remdg people of the regulatns to which they prevly signed up.

Durg this tournament, there was no player or ach or natnal feratn executive who was openly gay and prepared to talk about their experience. Ele men’s football and the state of Qatar are uned that tra: gay men are often visible and their experienc go prent uld humanise the culture war. The discsn is all the more powerful for football player or ach munited the purpose of the armband they wished to wear, or the importance of rights and eedoms, or sought to nvey any way what life might be like for a Qatari queer person or a gay supporter elsewhere.

He said he did not want to be subsumed to a rabow, or a pri movement, and that he found that the highly whe and highly chiselled ont pag of gay magaz the Wt did not reprent him any more than he felt reprented by Qataris who strip him of his rights and digny. Those of who ed social media to persistently outle aspects that we perceived to be homophobic laws or rhetoric were brand as racist or orientalist, as well as receivg creasg volleys of abe. I tsted him when he said to my face that gay visors would be ma to feel safe and nfince dwdled the n-up to the tournament and went out of the wdow as I flew to Doha.

EL MIEDO L FUTBOLISTA GAY POR IR A QATAR 2022: «¿QUIERO QUE MI VIDA Té EN PELIGRO?»

Go gays ? — Subscribe to (@GrantWahl) November 21, 2022Alex Baker, an English gay football fan, tried to take a flag to the match between England and Iran that was greysle, rather than rabow lours. “The ia of homosexualy, I do not like .

”On social media, discsn about homophobia was rced to shoutg, mem or abe, but I ntued to have difficult nversatns person. She told me she unrstood the “animal kgdom” and add “whatever I get up to behd closed doors” is none of her also told me that the Wt is teachg children to be gay, potg to news reports she had seen the right-wg Brish and Amerin media. They seemed surprised that Qatari people are largely pleasant, which seemed peculiar to me, bee the cricism had been of the ernment’s treatment of workers, rather than suggtg Qatari people are herently who prevly spoke up for gay people seemed to be sertg .

David Beckham, who once upon a time posed for gay magaze Attu, had taken the Qatari sh and did not say a word.

¿PúBLI GAY EN EL MUNDIAL QATAR? Sí, SI LOS FANS "RPETAN" Y NO HAY MUTRAS AFECTO

Inter homophob were empowered.

Men’s football is hardly a nirvana for gay supporters or players. Eight of the natns at the World Cup outlaw homosexualy. At the World Cup 1966, homosexualy was illegal the host natn: England.

EL DIRECTOR RELACIóN N LOS MEDS LA FIFA ANUNCIA QUE GAY EN LA EDA PRENSA INFANTO EN QATAR

He was last publicly seen pretendg to e out as gay October, what would have reprented a landmark moment for the sport, only for to subsequently appear to be a joke — Casillas claims he was a tournament of relentls gaslightg, was a ftg nouement.

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.

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. 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?