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Contents:

• A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
• CONFN, EXASPERATN AND DATG APPS – MY MONTH AS A GAY REPORTER AT THE QATAR WORLD CUP
• QATAR 2022 IS NO WORLD CUP FOR GAY PEOPLE
• WORLD CUP 2022, GAY ATHLET AND LGBTQ CLN
• ‘NOBODY FEELS UNSAFE HERE’: GAY FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO TOLD HE IS WELE AT QATAR WORLD CUP

A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S 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.

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.

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

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. 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.

QATAR 2022 IS NO WORLD CUP FOR GAY PEOPLE

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. Captas, cludg England skipper Millie Bright, have been banned - jt like the men Qatar - om beg allowed to wear "One Love" multiloured armbands featurg a would have obliquely referenced LGBTQ+ rights wh so many players out as gay at the tournament, cludg Atralia pta Sam Kerr, who said: "Obvly, we would have liked to have worn , but I'm not gog to put this team at risk.

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WORLD CUP 2022, GAY ATHLET AND LGBTQ CLN

"We have gay people.

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. I was a gay reporter Qatar for four weeks.

‘NOBODY FEELS UNSAFE HERE’: GAY FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO TOLD HE IS WELE AT QATAR WORLD CUP

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

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